The Sandy MacIntyre Collection: Cape Breton Fiddle (Steeped And Served)

Track 3 Doug Macphee is a Cape Brenton Pianist.

Track 3 Sir Reginald MacDonald was a royal navy officer born 19 October 1820 and died 15 December 1899.

On track 20 “Muileann Dubh (Black Hill)” should actually read “Muileann Dubh (Black Mill)”.

Track 28, The Gan Ainm Reel is The Devil’s Dream https://thesession.org/tunes/7042

Track 24, Old Scottish is known as On The Sly or Angus Allan Gillis’ in Cape Breton.

Track 22, Miss C Crawford’s has been incorrectly titled (original recording was on Island Treasure - Vol. 1). It’s actually Miss E MacLeod:
https://thesession.org/tunes/6976

Track 40, Traditional Bagpipe is The Gentle Milkmaid:
https://thesession.org/tunes/2296

None of the “Sandy MacIntyre’s” (tracks 7 and 13) are https://thesession.org/tunes/375.
The one that ends track 7 is a reel in Am. In track 13 the first is a strathspey in A and the second is indeed a reel in A but not “Sandy MacIntyre’s Trip to Boston”.

And the “Scotty Fitzgerald’s” jig in G (track 14) is not the same as the one on this site (https://thesession.org/tunes/3579) which, although transcribed in G, is far more usually played in A.

Tracks 13 to 23, inclusive, are taken, in identical track order, from Island Treasure Vol. 1 (from 1998). Accompaniment on those tracks is by Doug MacPhee (piano), John Allan Cameron (12 string guitar) and Dave MacIsaac (bass and 6 string guitar).

I have this recording and would have posted it were I not so lazy. It’s nice, has some rare tunes. I like the set with “Greig’s Pipes” and also the “Caledonia’s Wail for Neil Gow” set.

On track 40 (yet again!), the name listed for the last tune, “Upside Down in Eden Court”, is a mislabelling, as it is on many Cape Breton recordings. It is actually a different Gordon Duncan reel called “The Fourth Floor”, and I have edited the link to reflect this. What a tune!