Steve Earl's Galway girl is Americana. The instrumental break has a very distant flavor of American Old Timey music. They used a whistle to knock around the melody that Steve scratches on.
I thought Sharon Shannon came up with the instrumental part, I am pretty sure she was on the original recording. It makes a nice little polka played at the appropriate pace.
The group I am in learned this tune at the request of someone hiring us, always get a good reaction when we play it, and have found it very enjoyable to play as well.
Yeah Al, that is Sharon Shannon. Steve Earl wrote it though. Even with her Irish influence, It comes out sounding Americana to me. Not that that's a bad thing. I like a good scratchy Americana song.
Galway Girl
Galway Girl
Were the instrumental breaks in Steve Earl's "Galway Girl" borrowed from a trad tune?
# Posted on March 1st 2010 by Roide,Sully,Roide
Re: Galway Girl
I doubt it. It's not much of a tune is it.
# Posted on March 1st 2010 by ...
Re: Galway Girl
He's no Mike Scott.
# Posted on March 1st 2010 by Patkiwi
Re: Galway Girl
Steve Earl's Galway girl is Americana. The instrumental break has a very distant flavor of American Old Timey music. They used a whistle to knock around the melody that Steve scratches on.
# Posted on March 2nd 2010 by Gone to work
Re: Galway Girl
I thought Sharon Shannon came up with the instrumental part, I am pretty sure she was on the original recording. It makes a nice little polka played at the appropriate pace.
The group I am in learned this tune at the request of someone hiring us, always get a good reaction when we play it, and have found it very enjoyable to play as well.
# Posted on March 2nd 2010 by AlBrown
Re: Galway Girl
Yeah Al, that is Sharon Shannon. Steve Earl wrote it though. Even with her Irish influence, It comes out sounding Americana to me. Not that that's a bad thing. I like a good scratchy Americana song.
# Posted on March 2nd 2010 by Gone to work
Re: Galway Girl
The version from Mundy with Shannon is pretty good. It's more upbeat and doesn't sound so country.
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by Fiddlechick7
Re: Galway Girl
Well, Steve Earle is American so I guess it's not exactly a surprise that it sounds like Americana.
And, nope he's no Mike Scott - he's Steve Earle.
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by Dennis Regan