Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 23rd 2006 by Unseen122.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Farewell To Tim Collins
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
D3 B AGAB|dGBG AGEG|DEGB AGAB|cA~A2 BG~G2:|
d2 de d4|dBde gedB|cABG AGEG|1(3Bcd ed BAGe:|2(3Bcd ed BAGE||
Very Different!
Since I tried posting this earlier and was denied, I am trying again. I already posted this version in the comments of the tune by the same name, but was encouraged to post it as a seperate tune
This is a very different reel from the one posted under the same name. The two are similar in the ascending lines in the A part, but this is Gmaj (instead of Emin) and is a single reel not a double.
I got this version from what Donogh Hennessy plays on the compilation album "Masters of the Irish Guitar." It was written by Paidi Ban O Broin (aka Paddy Bawn O'Brien) a Box and Flute player.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Unseen122
Farewell to TIm Collins
Avery, I think I've figured out what's going on here. Donogh plays two reels in the track you're listening to. One of them is Paddy O'Brien's "Poor But Happy at 53" as posted by Zina (as "Michael Tennyson's"). The other reel, presumably the one you've posted here, is called "Farewell to Tim Collins."
So far, the only sound clips of that track I've been able to find online only feature "Poor But Happy at 53," unmistakably the tune Zina posted.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Will CPT
That makes sense. Must have been a typo on the track listing as I learned the second tune in the set which was listed as "Poor but Happy at 53." Now I can post it as a seperate tune.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Unseen122
BTW, This is Donogh's own compositon.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Unseen122
Ah, I see.
Any mention in the liner notes as to who Tim Collins is/was?
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Will CPT
Mr. Whoosis, I'm surprised you don't know Tim Collins: http://www.timcollins-concertina.com
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by slainte
I've seen the name here and there, but never heard his music. Thanks for the link--now I have another cd to add to my wish list....
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Will CPT
I haven't got it either. But it's been in my wish list for months.
For more about Tim Collins, listen to this programme: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thelatesession/rams/6february.smil (from The Late Session Programme Listings 2005) It was originally broadcast on Feb. 6 of the year.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by slainte
Says nthing about Tim in the liner notes just that this is Donogh's tune.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Unseen122
Donogh and Tim are both from Co. Kerry, aren't they? I might be wrong. But I read Donogh was living in Kerry when he was young.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by slainte
I'm not very keen on his compositions on Lunasa's recordings, but I love this one. Maybe he originally wrote it as a whistle tune.
Three or four years ago in the summer, I was listening to Jesse Smith and Mirella Murray playing tunes just beside them in a certain pub in Galway. It was afternoon, and the pub was nice and quiet. Around half an hour after the music started, a young man with a familiar face suddenly opened the door. It was Donogh. As a sensible tourist, I put my small backpack away, and he sat beside me. I said "Why don't you bring a guitar?" "Naa, I want to keep away from it for a while," he replied. Then he took a whistle out of his pocket and started playing it with Jesse and Mirella. He was obviously exhausted just after lots of gigs in many parts of Ireland, and I doubt that was his best whitle playing. But he wasn't a bad player!
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by slainte
Slainte, I believe the story goes that Donogh is originally from Dublin, but moved to Kerry and fell in love with trad there. Interesting how both Lunasa guitarists both spent time in Kerry (Paul Meehan is an expert Polka Flatpicker).
I am with you, this has to be a whistle tune, it just works so well on Flute/Whistle, I tried it on Banjo and it just wasn't as good.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Unseen122
Cheers for the follow-up. He also fell in love with a girl in Kerry: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/540/comments#comment67446
# Posted on April 24th 2006 by slainte
I once asked Donogh if he wrote his tunes on whistle, and my memory is that he said yes. It's been a while, though, so my memory could be off, or he might have changes his habits in the intervening years. Certainly all of his tunes that I've bothered to learn fit very well on whistle....
# Posted on April 24th 2006 by Sol Foster
Although the track listing says that Tim Collins tune comes first, it is in fact the Poor But Happy tune that comes first and then it is followed by this tune.
# Posted on April 24th 2006 by Donough
Inion Ni Sccanlain has always been one of my favorite slow Lunasa tunes.
Donough, that is what lead to our confusion as I posted this in the comments of Poor but Happy and confused everybody, but Whoois noticd what had happend.
# Posted on April 24th 2006 by Unseen122