Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Hi all:
I'm working on a feature for The Celtic Cafe on Buddy MacMaster. I interviewed him on Tuesday at The Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp here in Colorado, and he kindly recorded a greeting and a couple of jigs for the web article. However, it was done in a great hurry before a class, and I didn't get a chance to ask him the names of the tunes. Would anyone be willing to help me out by pulling down the mp3 and seeing if they can identify the jigs? (2208K file) The file isn't great quality, as I recorded it on my little interview tape recorder in an open tent with his students for the next class tiptoeing around in the gravel...but the tunes are certainly clear enough to identify.
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I found the first tune on a compilation of canuck guitar pickers called "6 strings north of the border". Unfortunately, it is a set of tunes played by Gordie Sampson, only listed as "the black jigs".
If you can find Gordie Sampson's "Stones" album, maybe there is a more specific breakdown in the liner notes. (Most major cd stores will let you listen and peruse liner notes these days without making you buy the cd). I'm afraid the others are new to me - can't help you.
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I've posted Buddy's version of this tune as per your recording, Zina. Check out the title "Buddy's mystery tune". Maybe someone here will recognize it and tell us the proper name.
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I'm pretty sure that there are three jigs here. All three are quite commonly found in the Cape Breton repertoire.
The first is "Way to Judique" a trad Cape Breton tune. (can be in the Jerry Holland collection among other places. )
The second is very familiar but the tune name doesn't come to mind right now.
The third is "The Stool of Repentance" by Niel Gow played with the second turn (ie B part) played first, followed by the first turn. I don't know why he did this way as he usually plays it the other way 'round. Perhaps to make the set flow better. Almost any trad Scottish collection has this one.
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Sorry, I checked the Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island book by Ken Perlman and discovered that my first guess was incorrect. The second tune is definitely Teviot Bridge with a C part thrown on that sounds like Irish Washerwoman
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I have now checked this set of tunes with you guys and another player on another list (Scott Donaldson, who plays a lot of Cape Breton). The group consensus is:
Way to Judique
Teviot Bridge
Stool of Repentance (Neil Gow)
About the first tune, from the book "Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton", by Kate Dunlay, and
David Greenberg:
"This is the first jig of Winston Fitzgerald's Judique Jig Medley, the second of which, the Judique Jig, was composed by Winston himself. He connected the two tunes in an inventive way: on the last time through, he changed the notes of the last two measures of the first turn, substituting a descending arpeggio which sounds like the end of a tune and leads into the a-note at the beginning of the Judique Jig. John Campbell remembers his father playing a four-part jig of which this traditional jig is the middle two turns. However, John Donald cameron feels that Angus Chisholm may have been responsible for composing or arranging the tune, as Chisholm was Fitzgerald's source for the jig."
Scott adds: Dunlay and Greenberg also note that Lee Creemo, Rodney MacDonald and Tara Lynne Touesnard each made recordings of "The Way to Judique" and listed the title of the tune on their respective liner notes as Judique Jig.
About Teviot Bridge: The second tune is called Teviot Bridge, which I also play. I got this tune from The Skye Collection.
About Stool of Repentance by Neil Gow: the version on your site is almost identical to a version of The Stool of Repentence in "Mel Bay Presents The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island", authored by Ken Perlman. A brief note on the tune says, "Scottish (in GowColl, Lowe's, Athole)", referring to the tune being including in the Gow Collection, Lowe's Collection, and The Athole Collection.
Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Hi all:
I'm working on a feature for The Celtic Cafe on Buddy MacMaster. I interviewed him on Tuesday at The Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp here in Colorado, and he kindly recorded a greeting and a couple of jigs for the web article. However, it was done in a great hurry before a class, and I didn't get a chance to ask him the names of the tunes. Would anyone be willing to help me out by pulling down the mp3 and seeing if they can identify the jigs? (2208K file) The file isn't great quality, as I recorded it on my little interview tape recorder in an open tent with his students for the next class tiptoeing around in the gravel...but the tunes are certainly clear enough to identify.
Thanks if you can manage it! http://www.zinalee.com/macmaster/buddymacm.mp3
Zina
# Posted on August 22nd 2001 by Zina Lee
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I found the first tune on a compilation of canuck guitar pickers called "6 strings north of the border". Unfortunately, it is a set of tunes played by Gordie Sampson, only listed as "the black jigs".
If you can find Gordie Sampson's "Stones" album, maybe there is a more specific breakdown in the liner notes. (Most major cd stores will let you listen and peruse liner notes these days without making you buy the cd). I'm afraid the others are new to me - can't help you.
# Posted on August 24th 2001 by Kerri Brown
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I've posted Buddy's version of this tune as per your recording, Zina. Check out the title "Buddy's mystery tune". Maybe someone here will recognize it and tell us the proper name.
# Posted on August 24th 2001 by Kerri Brown
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Dang. Well that's better than the nothing I had before, FOV! I'll go a-lookin.
Zina
# Posted on August 24th 2001 by Zina Lee
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I'm pretty sure that there are three jigs here. All three are quite commonly found in the Cape Breton repertoire.
The first is "Way to Judique" a trad Cape Breton tune. (can be in the Jerry Holland collection among other places. )
The second is very familiar but the tune name doesn't come to mind right now.
The third is "The Stool of Repentance" by Niel Gow played with the second turn (ie B part) played first, followed by the first turn. I don't know why he did this way as he usually plays it the other way 'round. Perhaps to make the set flow better. Almost any trad Scottish collection has this one.
Cheers
John
# Posted on August 26th 2001 by JohninMaine
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
John! You're a god!
Thanks very VERY much. If you remember the second, let me know, I'd really appreciate it!
Terrific -- now I need to go write the thing...
Zina
# Posted on August 27th 2001 by Zina Lee
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
John, in another thread, vonnieestes thinks the second tune might be "Top of Cork Road" -- sound right to you?
Zina
# Posted on August 28th 2001 by Zina Lee
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
Sorry, I checked the Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island book by Ken Perlman and discovered that my first guess was incorrect. The second tune is definitely Teviot Bridge with a C part thrown on that sounds like Irish Washerwoman
# Posted on August 31st 2001 by vonnieestes
Re: Need help identifying jigs played by Buddy MacMaster!
I have now checked this set of tunes with you guys and another player on another list (Scott Donaldson, who plays a lot of Cape Breton). The group consensus is:
Way to Judique
Teviot Bridge
Stool of Repentance (Neil Gow)
About the first tune, from the book "Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton", by Kate Dunlay, and
David Greenberg:
"This is the first jig of Winston Fitzgerald's Judique Jig Medley, the second of which, the Judique Jig, was composed by Winston himself. He connected the two tunes in an inventive way: on the last time through, he changed the notes of the last two measures of the first turn, substituting a descending arpeggio which sounds like the end of a tune and leads into the a-note at the beginning of the Judique Jig. John Campbell remembers his father playing a four-part jig of which this traditional jig is the middle two turns. However, John Donald cameron feels that Angus Chisholm may have been responsible for composing or arranging the tune, as Chisholm was Fitzgerald's source for the jig."
Scott adds: Dunlay and Greenberg also note that Lee Creemo, Rodney MacDonald and Tara Lynne Touesnard each made recordings of "The Way to Judique" and listed the title of the tune on their respective liner notes as Judique Jig.
About Teviot Bridge: The second tune is called Teviot Bridge, which I also play. I got this tune from The Skye Collection.
About Stool of Repentance by Neil Gow: the version on your site is almost identical to a version of The Stool of Repentence in "Mel Bay Presents The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island", authored by Ken Perlman. A brief note on the tune says, "Scottish (in GowColl, Lowe's, Athole)", referring to the tune being including in the Gow Collection, Lowe's Collection, and The Athole Collection.
Thanks for all the help, all!
Zina
# Posted on September 2nd 2001 by Zina Lee
P.S.
And, as John mentioned above, Stool of Repentance is played B first, then A.
# Posted on September 2nd 2001 by Zina Lee