I'm a fiddler from the mountains of New Mexico, USA. I've been playing old-time music since high school in the early 1970s. I also play 5-string old-time banjo, guitar, piano, standup bass and mandolin.
I seem to have a need to make up new tunes from time to time. Tunes I've composed include "Caliche Creek," "Sleeping In The Cheese Dip," "Rosemary's Waltz," "The Parkersburg Waltz," "Laughing Marj," "Maddy's Reel," and "Bright Girl."
I've played in an old-time band called The Nattering Nabobs (Rob Pine & Tom Christensen) since the early 1990s. We play square and contra dances in Albuquerque and Santa Fe once or twice a year. Rob Pine and I often compose tunes together. We contributed to a CD of "new old-time" tunes called "Sweet Nell" a few years ago. Some of our tunes in circulation in the US old-time scene are "Sweet Nell," "Last of the Mexican," and "Pharaoh's Cow."
My family (Marj, Maddy, and Riley Mullany) play dances as The Mullanys. We play old-time, Irish, Southwest Indian and Hispanic tunes and whatever else sounds fun to us. Dance music is the main event, of course.
My Mullanys (and O'Donnells) several generations back come from South Clonmore townland, Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland. It was not too shocking to hear from a distant relative still living in Cahir that a number of Mullanys in the day played box and fiddle there in South Clonmore. I was thrilled to be standing at the ruined hut of blind "Little Ned" Edmund Mullany in South Clormore the other year. Little Ned was supposedly a very decent box player.
Tunes in Jim Mullany's tunebook: 0
| Tunes | "Caliche Creek" sheet music? | October 27th 2009 |
| Tunes | Jim Mullany's Caliche Creek | October 27th 2009 |