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The Flowers Of The Red Mill

reel

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on April 21st 2004 by Dr. Dow.

This tune has been added to 44 tunebooks.

Also known as Anderson's, Anderson's No. 2, Bláthanna An Chnoic Rua, Flower Of The Red Mill, The Flower Of The Red Mill, Flowers Of Red Hill, The Flowers Of Red Hill, Flowers Of The Red Mill, Micho Russell's, The Wild Irishman.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Flowers Of The Red Mill, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
|:fg|aged BG~G2|BGdG eGdG|aged BG~G2|BddB A2:|
Bd|eaaf ~g3d|eaaf gfed|eaaf ga~a2|gede BAAd|
eaaf ~g3d|eaaf gfga|bgaf gedg|eBdB A2|

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The Flowers Of The Red Mill sheetmusic
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Anderson's

For backing I group this tune in my head with tunes like Midsummer's Night - Ador tunes that aren't straight-forward to put chords to. You can take it right out of its mode and do weird things with it. I like to throw F nats in at bar 6 like this: |=FG~G2 EGDa| or |=FGEG DGGg|

# Posted on April 21st 2004 by Dr. Dow

Micho Russell's

Here's the version that appears on Slide's "Flying Pig". It has a B-part that sounds a bit like "Miss McGuinness" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1397 --

K:Gdor
gfdc AFFE|F2cF dFcf|gfdc AFFG|(3ABc dc AG~G2|
gfdc AFFE|~F3c dFcf|gfdc AFFG|Afdc AG~G2||
g2ga ~f3c|dfcf dfc2|~g3a ~f3c|dfcA AG~G2|
~g3a ~f3c|dfcf defg|gagf fdcd|fdcA AG~G2||

Transposed into Ador --

K:Ador
aged BGGF|G2dG eGdg|aged BGGA|(3Bcd ed BA~A2|
aged BGGF|~G3d eGdg|aged BGGA|Bged BA~A2||
a2ab ~g3d|egdg egd2|~a3b ~g3d|egdB BA~A2|
~a3b ~g3d|egdg efga|abag gede|gedB BA~A2||

# Posted on November 6th 2004 by Dr. Dow

Is Anderson a Wild Irishman?

I was about to post this reel under a different title. As far as I know, this tune appears in two recordings: Paul McGrattan and Paul O'Shaughnessy's "Within a Mile of Dublin"; and Catherine and John McEvoy's "Kilmore Fancy." Two Pauls play it as a Sligo version of "The Wild Irishman," while McEvoys call it "The Flowers of the Red Mill (aka The Flowers of the Red Hill)." Really confusing! Please add some more info of this tune if you know it.

# Posted on November 12th 2004 by slainte

I forgot to add this tune is followed by "The Pretty Girls of Mayo" on the both recordings mentioned above, which seems not merely an accident.

# Posted on November 12th 2004 by slainte

Anderson's

Here is another transcription of the tune based the flute & fiddle duet playing of McGrattan & O'Shaughnessy and that of McEvoys. The second part is more or less my interpretation though.

K: Ador
aged BAGA|(3BAG dG eGdG|aged BAGA|B2dB BAA2:|
~a3f g2ag|eaaf gedg|~a3f g2ag|egdB BAA2|
~a3f g2ag|eaaf gedg|bgaf gedB|egdB BAA2||

# Posted on November 13th 2004 by slainte

Let Down the Blade by Dervish

Micho Russel`s (The Flowers Of The Red Mill reel) is given here as the first tune in the Let Down the Blade set from Playing with Fire by Dervish. This is obviously a mistake, `cause this is a set of slides, two of which I easily found in the web but the first is a problem. Can someone help?

# Posted on June 11th 2005 by Viking of Kiev

It's pretty easy. You go to "search" and then type "Micho" into the box. This gives you a bunch of tunes, all called Micho Russell's. You scan down until you come to one that says "slide" and then you click on it, and lo and behold, you get this tune: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/958.

# Posted on June 11th 2005 by Dr. Dow

Let Down the Blade by Dervish

Thank you very much. It`s really easy :).

# Posted on June 12th 2005 by Viking of Kiev

You can watch Catherine and John McEvoy play this reel together: http://www.custysmusic.com/mall/CustysTraditionalMusicShop/catherine_and_john_mcevoy.htm It's the second tune of the set.

Paddy O'Brien also recorded a great version of the tune as Anderson's on "Traditional Irish Music," which was his collaboration album with James Kelly and Daithi Sproule.

# Posted on July 31st 2005 by slainte

Duplicated @ http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4799

# Posted on December 21st 2005 by Dr. Dow

Wild Irishman

Slainte mentioned one recording that calls this The Wild Irishman. That's what Micheal O Raghallaigh called it when he played it at a workshop I attended.

# Posted on April 26th 2008 by boxist

A Flute Classic

This reel has been recorded by at least 4 flute players in the last few years: Peter Horan, Catherine McEvoy with John McEvoy on the fiddle, John Blake with Lamond Gillespie on the fiddle, and James Carty. Well, James Carty actually plays it with John and John P. Carty both on the flute!

I read somewhere that John McKenna first recorded it in the 1920s.

# Posted on November 4th 2008 by slainte

This is certainly the tune that shows up as The Wild Irishman' in Bulmer & Sharpley's "Music of Ireland" books (book 3, #36).

# Posted on April 19th 2011 by rwwt

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