Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on February 17th 2003 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 123 tunebooks.
Also known as The Blackthorn, Eel In The Sink, Eels In The Sink.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Eel In The Sink, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
e2AB cdec|d2BG dG (3Bcd|eAAB cdef|1 gedg eAAc:|2 gedg eAAe||
a2ea aged|cdef (3gbg fg|a2ea agab|gedg eAAe|
a2ea aged|cdef (3gbg fg|afge fdef|gfgd BAAc||
Transcribed directly from the playing of Terry Bingham, not from Henrik Norbeck, who has also transcribed the same track. This is my favourite version of the tune in Amix, but it also comes in Ador, in which case it is (according to Norbeck) sometimes called "The Blackthorn Reel". In some settings, the phrases end |gedB BAA2| but I prefer Terry Bingham's version |gedg eAA...
On the Terry Bingham track the guitarist plays Ador chords whilst Bingham is playing in Amix with C#s. I think this spoils it, and would have preferred a more complimentary harmonisation. Do you think it was deliberate?
# Posted on February 17th 2003 by Dow
Eel
Also recorded by Molloy, Peoples & Brady, Seamus Tansey & Joe Sheridan, and Vinnie Kilduff (on Brendan Regan's solo recording).
# Posted on February 18th 2003 by Kenny
Anders Trabjerg
On Anders Trabjerg's CD Boxed, he plays it with Am chords, using C-nat, and using the C# twice in the B-part.
Lars
# Posted on February 19th 2003 by Larshansen
Eel in the Sink
When my mother liked a good reel she would always say: "a reel to raise the deads and make them dance". I have the same thing to say about this one. A very lively reel
# Posted on March 13th 2003 by graphix
Another Version
The Old Man's Blackthorn Stick: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5774
As for the versions in Ador or Amix, I often hear the last two bars played like this: |afge fdef|gedB BA~A2||
# Posted on January 25th 2007 by slainte