Hi all! This is not a tune request, just wondering....
I've just bought the Alan Kelly album "Out of the Blue", and on it there's a set called Spootiskerry, which consists of 3 tunes: Spootiskerry/The Harsh February/McClouds Farewell. When I heard the tune Harsh February it immediately rang a bell, and i was sure i'd heard it before. Then I remembered that I'd heard Lunasa play it, but they call it something else - BUT WHAT?
I've snooped around, listening to MIDI-tunes from all Lunasa albums, but i can't seem to find it. Does anyone know what it's called???
I'm too lazy to look in the tunefinder. All I know is that Phil Cunningham wrote and recorded a tune called The Harsh February. I think it's on his Airs and Graces.
I just tried listening to the Alan Kelly cut at http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,252466,00.html . The snip that's there has once through a tune that I know is not Spootiskerry, and the beginning of another tune. So it's got to be Harsh February into McClouds Farewell. It's hard to tell at that speed, but it looked to me like it could have been the same Harsh February that's at JC's. Written by Phil Cunningham. I've just tried again, this time looking at the dots rather than the ABC, and I'm fairly sure they're the same tune.
According to the sleeve notes the snip you've mentioned is in fact Spootiskerry and about 5 seconds of Harsh February.
The Lunasa-version is aobut 20 seconds of intro with guitar and pipe"noise", followed by Sean Smyth starting the tune playing it thruogh one time, whereafter Cillian Vallely joins in...... But thanks anyway
I couldn't find any sleeve notes. It doesn't sound at all like Spootiskerry. And the last 5 seconds match the link Zina posted to The Wedding Reel. Now that I've listened a second time while looking at the dots from JC (Bill Black's transcription), I'm sure that the first 25 seconds is Harsh February by Phil Cunningham. Kelly's version is a bit different, but it is the same tune.
Tune question
Tune question
Hi all! This is not a tune request, just wondering....
I've just bought the Alan Kelly album "Out of the Blue", and on it there's a set called Spootiskerry, which consists of 3 tunes: Spootiskerry/The Harsh February/McClouds Farewell. When I heard the tune Harsh February it immediately rang a bell, and i was sure i'd heard it before. Then I remembered that I'd heard Lunasa play it, but they call it something else - BUT WHAT?
I've snooped around, listening to MIDI-tunes from all Lunasa albums, but i can't seem to find it. Does anyone know what it's called???
Desperately yours
/DADdyGADdy
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by DADdyGADdy
Re: Tune question
And might I add: it's not the same Harsh February as the one in JC's Tune Finder
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by DADdyGADdy
Re: Tune question
I'm too lazy to look in the tunefinder. All I know is that Phil Cunningham wrote and recorded a tune called The Harsh February. I think it's on his Airs and Graces.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by kris
Re: Tune question
I just tried listening to the Alan Kelly cut at
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,252466,00.html . The snip that's there has once through a tune that I know is not Spootiskerry, and the beginning of another tune. So it's got to be Harsh February into McClouds Farewell. It's hard to tell at that speed, but it looked to me like it could have been the same Harsh February that's at JC's. Written by Phil Cunningham. I've just tried again, this time looking at the dots rather than the ABC, and I'm fairly sure they're the same tune.
I don't know anything about the Lunasa cut.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by GaryAMartin
Re: Tune question
----> Gary:
According to the sleeve notes the snip you've mentioned is in fact Spootiskerry and about 5 seconds of Harsh February.
The Lunasa-version is aobut 20 seconds of intro with guitar and pipe"noise", followed by Sean Smyth starting the tune playing it thruogh one time, whereafter Cillian Vallely joins in...... But thanks anyway
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by DADdyGADdy
Re: Tune question
McClouds Farewell is recorded by Lunasa as the Wedding Reel. Lovely tune.....Emily Smith does it as well and I think it was written by Donald Shaw.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by lorcan
Re: Tune question
http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/518
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Zina Lee
P.s.
It's off Merry Sisters of Fate. Kerri's transcription doesn't include the low bit in the A part, but otherwise is the same tune.
# Posted on November 29th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: Tune question
I couldn't find any sleeve notes. It doesn't sound at all like Spootiskerry. And the last 5 seconds match the link Zina posted to The Wedding Reel. Now that I've listened a second time while looking at the dots from JC (Bill Black's transcription), I'm sure that the first 25 seconds is Harsh February by Phil Cunningham. Kelly's version is a bit different, but it is the same tune.
# Posted on November 30th 2004 by GaryAMartin