Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 19th 2004 by jdave.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Connie Hogan's, Tony Smith's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jim Conroy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
A2BG EGDE|G2BG dGBG|A2BG EGDG|1Bdef gedB:|2Bdef gede||
g2bg egde|gabg fgab|g2bg egdB|dega bg~g2|
g2bg egde|gabg fgac'|bgaf gefd|gaba gedB|
Jim Conroy's Reel
From Jack and Charlie Coen's The Branch Line. There are two tunes called Jim Conroy's on the recording, one of them a jig which is already posted, and this reel.
Jim Conroy was a Galway flutist and a major influence on Jack Coen; many tunes in Jack's repertoire came from Jim.
The A part of this tune is very similiar to "The Ballinafad Fancy"; try playing them back to back and see if you can keep them unsnarled--I'm working on it.
-Jonathan
# Posted on April 19th 2004 by jdave
Find another transcription here http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3209
# Posted on May 1st 2007 by Dow
Woodford Reel
So, Jack and Charlie Coen recorded this as "Jim Conroy's" and Mary MacNamara did it as "Connie Hogan's." Jim Conroy is/was a flute player from Woodford as written above, and Connie Hogan was a concertina player from Gurteen near Woodford. Now, we know which part of Ireland this tune comes from.
A Woodford whistle player called Gerry Conroy played a great set of reels on Mary and Mike Rafferty's "The Road from Ballinakill." He is probably a son of Jim.
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by slainte
By the way, second part is very similar to Harry Bradley's version of Old Maid of Galway.
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by slainte