I've known this tune for years but only recently "rediscovered" it. And now I can't stop playing it. Great tune. It has a nice lilt and swing to it. Anybody else dusting off some old chestnuts?
I'vea hard time playing this tune fast with swing. Seems I can play it at a moderate tempo with swing or fast and 'straight'. But I'm really still playing the crap out of 'Aarons Quay' from Jims video a couple weeks ago. I fell madly in love with that tune learned it in Bm on banjo and whistle then dropped it down a step to learn it on concertina and re-learned it on banjo and whistle in Am. Still struggling with the damned concertina though....maybe it just isn't meant to be....
shanty--
Your doing well with all the instrument you can play..
I wont be playing '' Paddy Ryan's Dream '' at that speed either,Though it is mighty playing. And as you say a bit slower to get the swing into it.
jim,,,
Every year or so I come back to the Neil Gow tune "Loch Earne" -- a very well-constructed tune, with that tinge of Am melancholy lurking amongst the jolly G-Major strains.
I like the Drunken Landlady too; just how does her liver keep functioning after all of these years of dissipation?
Very soon after getting the third Bothy Band album, which features the tune, I went in late 1977 to do a short course in TEFL (ESOL) in Cambridge. There I lodged in Gwydir Street in a house owned and lived in by a decent old Irish couple - I forget their names. I couldn't help but think of the woman of the house as The Drunken Landlady, which was grossly unjust as I never saw her in any state of disorder: she merely happened to be Irish and a landlady, and to have happened in my life straight after learning the tune...
The language school was full of Iranians who were known for their extreme taciturnity, not an advantage in people supposed to be over here to learn English and a matter of exasperation to the tutors. One of these gave us the low-down: "Half of them are refugees from the Shah and the other half are secret police sent over to keep tabs on them. That's why they're so unforthcoming." Obviously English conditional clauses etc. were not at the top of their minds.
The Drunken Landlady
The Drunken Landlady
I've known this tune for years but only recently "rediscovered" it. And now I can't stop playing it. Great tune. It has a nice lilt and swing to it. Anybody else dusting off some old chestnuts?
# Posted on February 4th 2011 by John Culhane
Re: The Drunken Landlady
Who' yah callin' an old chestnut ?
# Posted on February 4th 2011 by Guernsey Pete
Re: The Drunken Landlady
Yes John
Just re-learning this old,, hard Chestnut to Crack.
'' Paddy Ryan's Dream ''
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFulEr7YUxo&feature=related
Hope you don't mind the old 78 rpm Recording !
jim,,,
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Drunken Landlady
Good one, Jim. I'll have to try to get to that one again soon too. Frank Ferrel was my first fiddle teacher many years ago in Seattle.
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by John Culhane
Re: The Drunken Landlady
I'vea hard time playing this tune fast with swing. Seems I can play it at a moderate tempo with swing or fast and 'straight'. But I'm really still playing the crap out of 'Aarons Quay' from Jims video a couple weeks ago. I fell madly in love with that tune learned it in Bm on banjo and whistle then dropped it down a step to learn it on concertina and re-learned it on banjo and whistle in Am. Still struggling with the damned concertina though....maybe it just isn't meant to be....
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by shanty
Re: The Drunken Landlady
shanty--
Your doing well with all the instrument you can play..
I wont be playing '' Paddy Ryan's Dream '' at that speed either,Though it is mighty playing. And as you say a bit slower to get the swing into it.
jim,,,
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: The Drunken Landlady
Yes,
Just been dusting off O'Carolans Concerto on whistle.
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by ormepipes
Re: The Drunken Landlady
Every year or so I come back to the Neil Gow tune "Loch Earne" -- a very well-constructed tune, with that tinge of Am melancholy lurking amongst the jolly G-Major strains.
I like the Drunken Landlady too; just how does her liver keep functioning after all of these years of dissipation?
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by Larry Ayers
Re: The Drunken Landlady
Ah, The Drunken Landlady.
Very soon after getting the third Bothy Band album, which features the tune, I went in late 1977 to do a short course in TEFL (ESOL) in Cambridge. There I lodged in Gwydir Street in a house owned and lived in by a decent old Irish couple - I forget their names. I couldn't help but think of the woman of the house as The Drunken Landlady, which was grossly unjust as I never saw her in any state of disorder: she merely happened to be Irish and a landlady, and to have happened in my life straight after learning the tune...
The language school was full of Iranians who were known for their extreme taciturnity, not an advantage in people supposed to be over here to learn English and a matter of exasperation to the tutors. One of these gave us the low-down: "Half of them are refugees from the Shah and the other half are secret police sent over to keep tabs on them. That's why they're so unforthcoming." Obviously English conditional clauses etc. were not at the top of their minds.
# Posted on February 5th 2011 by nicholas
Re: The Drunken Landlady
kitty lie over
# Posted on February 6th 2011 by tradcracker