Dowd's Favourite

reel

Key signature: Gdorian

Submitted on August 9th 2001 by martin t.

This tune has been added to 175 tunebooks.

Also known as Dowd's, Dowd's Favorite, O'Dowd's, O'Dowd's Favourite.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Tribute To Michael Coleman by Joe Burke, Andy McGann And Felix Dolan
• Best Of Irish Fiddle by Florie Brown
• Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly
• Celtic Dance by Various Artists
• Classic Recordings Of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music by Hugh Gillespie
• Come To Dance: A Celtic Tradition by John Whelan
• Each Little Thing by Sharon Shannon
• Familiar Footsteps by Dezi Donnelly
• Farewell To Ireland CD 1 (of A Box Set Of 4) by Various Artists
• From Shetland by Trevor Hunter
• Hidden Ground by Paddy Glackin, Jolyon Jackson
• Hit The Bricks... by Waking Maggie
• In Safe Hands by Various Artists
• Inside Out by Mícheál O' Raghallaigh
• Irish Dance Music by Various Artists
• Irish Traditional Music by Paddy Carty
• Leahy by Leahy
• Lonely Bird by Aly Bain
• My Roots Are Showing by Natalie MacMaster
• Overland by Randal Bays And Daithi Sproule
• Phoenix: Traditional Music From Cork And Beyond by Any Old Time
• Rattlin' Banjos (part 1) by Gerry O'Connor
• Sean McGuire Plays by Sean Maguire
• Selection Box by Conor McCarthy And Alph Duggan
• Seven Evenings, Seven Mornings by Shantalla
• Seven Years After by Sirkus
• Sláinte by Sheevon
• Ten Man Mop Or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again by Steeleye Span
• The Banks Of The Shannon by Paddy O'Brien, Seamus Connolly And Charlie Lennon
• The Iron Man by Tommy Peoples And Daithi Sproule
• The Judique Flyer by Buddy MacMaster
• The Lark In The Morning by Steeleye Span
• The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts
• The Michael Sexton Ceili Band by The Michael Sexton Ceili Band
• The Words That Remain by Solas
• Traditional Irish Fiddle Music by Vincent Griffin
• Traditional Music Of Ireland by Kathleen Collins
• Waltz After Circus by Pularí

X: 1
T: Dowd's Favourite
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gdor
F|DGGA BABF|DFF2 DFCF|DGGA BABd|cAfA AGG:|!
A|B2dB fBdB|B2dB cAFA|B2dB fBdB|cAFA BGGA|!
B2dB fBdB|B2dB cAFA|BAGF Ggge|fdcA BGG|]!
z|gdd2 g2ag|fcc2 fcAc|gdd2 g2ag|fdcA BGG2|!
gdd2 g2ag|fcc2 fcAF|GABc dgge|fdcA BGG|]!

This tune is also played by Tommy People's on his Iron Man album.

# Posted on April 18th 2003 by pchaffee

Good version also by Kathleen Collins who uses an unexpected ornament in the third part. At first I thought she was putting in triplets on the ds and cs, but slowing it down I realized she was adding a d grace note before two d quavers (likewise on the c), with the bow really digging in triplet style for the grace note. Reproducing it changes the expected bowing direction so is initially tricky to do (especially if like me you're all primed to put a triplet in at this spot). Here's the last bar of her b part and all of her c part:

fdcA BGBd|]!
|gd {d}dd gbag|fc {c}cc fgaf|gd {d}dd gbag|fdcA BGBd|!
gd {d}dd gbag|fc {c}cc fgaf|gafg efde|cAfc AGG|]!

# Posted on September 27th 2006 by Ger the Rigger

Using double stops

Peter Knight of Steeleye Span does a nice version with double stops on Ten Man Mop. The second note is usually higher or lower by a fifth, giving it a "fiddly" sound. Here's the a part:

DGGA B2GB|A~F3 CFA,F|DGGA [D3B3]B|{c}BAGA {c}BA[DA]F |!
DGGA B2GB|A~F3 CFA,F|DGGA [D3B3]d|cA[Af]c [Ae]GG2 |!

# Posted on October 8th 2006 by McBriss

Andy McGann's 3rd part

Andy McGann's setting of this is nice, too. Particularly the 3rd part. The 2nd part is also much more interesting than that posted here. You can hear it on the Tribute to Michael Coleman CD

http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/47

or find a printed transcription in Miller and Perron's Traditional Irish Fiddle Music. However, I'd advise ignoring the wierd 4th part there which was devised by Randy Miller.

# Posted on January 23rd 2007 by kris

haha dow...ds lol
sorry dow. we love you really. you are a legend

# Posted on February 19th 2008 by frafyduck