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The Rakish Paddy

Paddy Cronin

Submitted on July 16th 2006 by Jon Kiparsky.

  1. Lucy Campbell
  2. Humors Of Ennistymen
  3. Eleanor Kane's
    The Teetotaller
  4. Jeannie's Welcome To Charlie
  5. Glen Allen
  6. Padrigh O'Keefe's
    Dennis Murphy's
  7. Haymaker
  8. Drops Of Brandy
  9. Drunken Sailor
  10. Mist In The Meadow
  11. Kelibig House
  12. Paddy On The Turnpike
    The Steampacket
  13. Pipe On The Hob
  14. Paddy The Piper
  15. Congress
  16. Reevy's
    Rowsome's
  17. Crabs In The Skillet
  18. Tobin's
  19. Rakish Paddy
  20. The Gold Ring
  21. Braes Of Achentyre

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I found this old LP (issued by Fiddler Records of Seattle in 1975) in a stack of good trad vinyl in a local record shop. A quick poke around turns up no trace of a reissue, though perhaps I've missed something.
The spellings of the tune titles are as given on the jacket - "Padrigh" O'Keefe is referred to several times in the notes, so the spelling there seems intentional.

# Posted on July 16th 2006 by Jon Kiparsky

Typos ?

Not intentional, Jon - just a consistent mistake, I'd say.
There's also :

Track 2 - "Ennistymon"
Track 4 - "Jenny's"
Track 11 - "Killabeg's"
Track 21 - "Auchentyre"

Probably not Paddy's fault - and this is a recording I'd love to hear - but the typos stop the link being made to the tunes in the database.
Does he play flute on any of the tracks ?

# Posted on July 16th 2006 by Kenny

Or........

possbly "Auchtertyre".

# Posted on July 16th 2006 by Kenny

"Killabeg's" means Killabeg [sp?] House = Ah! Surely. That's flute.
I got the dubs of this and Paddy's other 70's LP, Kerry's Own, from a fellow who "isolated" the flute playing, as he didn't think Paddy up to snuff there...Kerry's Own has two more tracks of Paddy puffing. I seem to recall reading that Paddy made his own flute, how 'bout dat. I prefer this record to Kerry's Own, which has some truly astray strumming and thumping. The liner notes of the R.P. mention that the lady at the piano is one of the only backers Paddy was satisfied with.
Someone should transcribe his Haymaker Reel, which is a great fiddler's variant of the Green Mountain/Maid Behind the Bar. Perhaps it's in the Johnny O'Leary book or something like that. Also it was the title James Morrison gave the GM/MBTB on his old 78, that was more the usual setting though.

# Posted on July 17th 2006 by Kevin Rietmann

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