Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 5th 2006 by Joe CSS.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as Hunters Road.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Arctic Winds, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
E|:FAG FAG|FDE FAd|BFF Bcd|BGB dcB|
AdG FAG|FDE FAd|BGB cde|1 f/2g/2ag fdG:|2 f/2g/2ag fde||
|:fed a2 A|def fed|ecA a2 A|cde ABc|
~B3 deg|fbb bfg|~f3 fed|1 cdA def:|2 cdA GFE||"Ending"|D6||
I learned this strange little tune at the Meitheal Summer School in Limerick last year. It was written by Maurice Lennon, who I learned it from. He said that he wrote it when he was writing the music for a TV documentary about an expedition to the Arctic, and that he used some weird device to record the sounds made by a taut string vibrating in the wind to give him inspiration. Or something. I may be completely wrong.
I don't think he ever gave it a title, so I took the liberty of giving it the obvious one.
# Posted on June 5th 2006 by Joe CSS
Lúnasa?
Isn't this the third tune in Cotati Nights... (Lúnasa, Redwood) ...? Called Hunters Road, from what it says here: http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/471
# Posted on June 5th 2006 by Pere
Maurice told me that it was written by Steve cooney and that it was called 'the bicycle jig'...however its also supposed to have been written by Kevin Crawford and titled 'hunters purse' as it is on the Lunasa cd...
# Posted on September 12th 2006 by maryp
pardon me, that is of course 'hunters ROAD'!
# Posted on September 14th 2006 by maryp
OK...
It looks like I AM completely wrong. But I could've sworn that's what he said...
# Posted on September 27th 2006 by Joe CSS
I have been wondering how on earth Kevin Crawford could have composed since I read the Lunasa liner notes, because I first heard it in 1985 when KC must have been in short trousers.
I learned it back then from a friend who had a recording of Louis McManus playing it at a gig. Louis called it "Steve Cooney's jig" and since he and Steve were good friends I always assumed it was a Cooney composition. It has the ring of one of his tunes anyway. FWIW Steve Cooney wrote the music for a number of TV documentaries.
# Posted on October 18th 2006 by Jeeves Tones
PS The version Joe posted here is pretty close to the "Steve Cooney's jig" that Louis McManus played - much closer than the Lunasa version is.
# Posted on October 18th 2006 by Jeeves Tones
Hunter´s road
my transcription of Lunasa´s version is:
E|:FAG FAG|FDE FAd|BFF Bcd|BBB dcB|
AdG FAG|FDE FAd|BGE cde|1 fag fdA:|2 f/2g/2ag fdd||
|:fed aaa|def fed|ecA AAA| (3Bcd e ABc|
~B3 def|ffb bag|~a2 f def|1 ecA d2f:|2 ecA BAG||"Ending"|A6||
# Posted on November 1st 2006 by Manu Novo