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Phil Cunningham’s reel
By Aly Bain
There are 13 recordings of this tune.
This tune has been recorded together with
- Andy Broon’s (lots of times) and
- Annalese Bain (a few times).
Phil Cunningham’s appears in 1 other tune collection.
Phil Cunningham’s has been added to 7 tune sets.
Phil Cunningham’s has been added to 80 tunebooks.
Four comments
Popular Aly Bain tune
This tune is known as Phil Cunningham’s reel and is the actual title as Aly composed it for his friend and musical partner. So, it does not mean “Learned from the playing” of Phil Cunningham as is the usual practice with unamed tunes.
You’ll hear this tune a lot in Scottish sessions and it also gets played by Cape Breton fiddlers.
Reel?
sounds more like a hornpipe to me
It’d make a great rant.
Phil Cunningham’s Reel
The scottish reel/hornpipe thing is being discussed in the comments for https://thesession.org/tunes/7872