John Stenson's

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 26th 2002 by CreadurMawnOrganig.

This tune has been added to 64 tunebooks.

Also known as John Stenson's #1, John Stenson's No 1, John Stenson's No.1, Stenson One.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Camp House Ballads by Jimmy Crowley
• Ceol Conamara by Various Artists
• Dark Of The Moon by Grey Larsen And Paddy League
• If The Cap Fits by Kevin Burke
• Just Me And A Fiddle by The Flyin' Fiddler Wayne Cantwell
• Ocean View by Shanachie
• Stony Steps by Matt Molloy
• The Best Of De Danann by De Danann
• The Celts Play Connecticut by Various Artists
• The Mystery Inch by Damien O'Kane And Dave Kosky
• The Star Spangled Molly by De Danann
• Turning Of The Tide by Fresh Fish

X: 1
T: John Stenson's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:dAfA aAfA|abaf edBc|dAfA aAfA|1 abaf ~e3f:|2 abaf e2de||
|:fBBA Bcde|fBBA d3e|fBBA Bcde|1 faaf ~e2de:|2 faaf effe||

Somebody in Discussions was looking for a tune called Stenson's recently. There are two reels on Kevin Burke's album, 'If The Cap Fits', which he calls John Stenson's (John Stenson is the accordion player from whom Kevin Burke learnt the tunes). This is the first of the two. It won't be exactly the same as Kevin Burke's setting, as it came out of my head, but it should be an acceptable variant in sessions.

As I've just discovered, Jeremy has installed a self-locking mechanism to prevent over-enthusiastic tunaholics from posting more than one tune a day (You can't stop us from eating tuna, though, Jeremy.), so I'll post the second one tomorrow.

# Posted on November 26th 2002 by CreadurMawnOrganig

This is very close to the Annamaculeen Reel, which was posted here in G/Em over a year ago. The B Part in particular is essentially the same.

# Posted on November 26th 2002 by Will Harmon

John Stenson

Kevin Burke has relatives in Sligo by the name of Stenson. If I remember rightly they had a farm up near one of the lakes. Could this John Stenson be one of them ?

# Posted on November 26th 2002 by murfbox

I've checked the sleeve notes to the album since posting the tune, and KB says that John Stenson is a box player from Sligo, so he could well be one of those same Stensons.

# Posted on November 28th 2002 by CreadurMawnOrganig

This has to be a variation of "The Otter's Holt".

# Posted on February 2nd 2012 by bdh