1) we rarely hear slides in sessions and I find it's nice to hear some examples once in a while; in fact they're played at quite a relaxed pace here and I think that it's probably a common mistake for musicians not familiar with slides to always play them "hell for leather"!
2) does anyone have names for these - the first two are a bit unfamiliar to me but the last one seems fairly common.
It's on the CD "Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra-Dance Music from the Cork Kerry Border" and also in Terry Moylan's book "Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra".
Thanks Bannerman, I was needing something to lift my spirits and this did it... Slides are favourites of my wife ~ hearing them, playing them and dancing to them... but not played 'hell for leather'... Slides, like polkas too, get pretty awful treatment in general, erratic speed being the main thing that shatters the joy of them... These two were a joy to surrender my ears to...
I usually have the opposite problem with slides round these parts. Typically folks will play them a bit too slowly and end up going 'jiggety jiggety' all over their lovely 12/8-ness.
Anyway, I love slides, polkas too.
Finally, I leave you with the immortal words of Belfast poet Ciarán Carson, who once described the lovely slide as:
'blah dithery dump a doodle scattery idle fortunoodle'
Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Two reasons for posting these slides played by a couple of young Sliabh Luachra musicians at http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_288_2_eimear_buckley_padraig_king:-
1) we rarely hear slides in sessions and I find it's nice to hear some examples once in a while; in fact they're played at quite a relaxed pace here and I think that it's probably a common mistake for musicians not familiar with slides to always play them "hell for leather"!
2) does anyone have names for these - the first two are a bit unfamiliar to me but the last one seems fairly common.
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
The second seems to be a slide version of this polka, only in a higher key:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4824
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by willv
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
lovely
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
The first tune is "Barrack Hill".
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by joesmith
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
It's on the CD "Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra-Dance Music from the Cork Kerry Border" and also in Terry Moylan's book "Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra".
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by joesmith
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
I learnt the second tune from a group of (then) young musicians called Ceol Chiarri, and the name they gave it was "The Echoes of Killarney"
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by Tony O'Rourke
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
I love slides, what with the way the 12/8 and the rhythm give a longer arc to the phrasing (that's how I hear/think of it anyway).
The third tune is The Rejected Suitor or Cnoc Na GClarac
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5862
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by jasonb
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Thanks Bannerman, I was needing something to lift my spirits and this did it... Slides are favourites of my wife ~ hearing them, playing them and dancing to them... but not played 'hell for leather'... Slides, like polkas too, get pretty awful treatment in general, erratic speed being the main thing that shatters the joy of them... These two were a joy to surrender my ears to...
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by ceolachan
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
That was great, thanks Bannerman.
I usually have the opposite problem with slides round these parts. Typically folks will play them a bit too slowly and end up going 'jiggety jiggety' all over their lovely 12/8-ness.
Anyway, I love slides, polkas too.
Finally, I leave you with the immortal words of Belfast poet Ciarán Carson, who once described the lovely slide as:
'blah dithery dump a doodle scattery idle fortunoodle'
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
SWFL....you always have such a way with words!
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by zippydw
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Actually question after repeating it a few times-is the an emphasis on 'fort...' or is it on the middle '...tun...'
Not intending to be flip.
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by zippydw
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
lol zippy! Let's see…
blah DITHery dump a DOOdle scattery IDLE fortuNOOdle
???
Sure, let’s go with that. Anything but jiggety jiggety, or any related members of the same family tree.
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Nice playing. This is the second one.......
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5945
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by bogman
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
And the first one, which seems to be a version of 'Haughs of Cromdale'
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1014
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by bogman
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
They aren't his words.
They are Ciaran Carson's words.
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by Hugo Chavez
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Thanks for all the contributions and in particular for providing tune names. I'm glad I'm not the only one with a grá for slides!
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Slides from Sliabh Luachra
Hey Hugo, my ego assumed zippy saw my disclaimer and was commenting on my overall linguistic talents! [insert fiddler+ego joke here]
Linkage for Mr. Carson's fine poetry: (not sure about his poultry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciarán_Carson#Critical_Perspective
# Posted on June 9th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler