Dillon Brown

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on February 26th 2007 by Reelin´ man.

This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.

Also known as Dillon Brown's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Atlantic Wave by Paddy Reynolds, Charlie Mulvihill, James Keane, Felix Dolan
• Augusta: 20 Years Of Irish Music Recorded Live At The Augusta Heritage Center by Various Artists
• Farewell To Ireland by Patrick Mangan
• Fiddler's Choice by Jerry Holland
• Irish Traditional Accordion Session With Four Champions by Joe Burke, Kevin Loughlin, Finbarr Dwyer And John Whelan
• Kitty Lie Over by Mick O'Brien And Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh
• Northern Banjo by Ken Pearlman
• Party Acadien by Eddy Arsenault Et Famille, Anastasia DesRoches, Louise Arsenault
• Temple House 1 by Temple House Ceili Band
• The Fairy Bridges by Josephine Keegan
• The Selkies' Song by Debbie Scott
• The Twentieth Anniversary Collection by Various Artists
• With Complements by Patsy Reid

X: 1
T: Dillon Brown
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG | BGAG cedc | BGAG EGDE | GBAG EGG2 :|
Bddf egdc | Bddf efg2 | Bddf egdc | BGAG EGG2 |
Bddf egdc | Bddf efg2 | gfge dcBd | cABG EGG2 ||

Dillon Brown

I first heard this one while I was a student living in Portrush/NI. Years later I found it in a dance tune collection in a Hamburg library. I also found exactly the same in the JC tunefinder. I am aware that there are some similarities with "The Mountain Top", still I think it is a different tune. If someone knows this one under a really different title, I´d be happy to learn. The same goes for recordings.

# Posted on February 26th 2007 by Reelin´ man

Here is Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh's version from Kitty Lie Over - just a few notes different from the one posted.

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BGAG EGDG | BGAG cedc | BGAG EGDE | GBAG EG~G2 :|
Bddg efdc | Bddg eg~g2 | Bddf efdB | cABG EGG2 |
Bddg efdc | Bddg eg~g2 | bage d2Bd | cABG EGG2 ||

# Posted on February 26th 2007 by granama

As well as The Mountain Top, this tune has similarites with these tunes:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2631
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3235

Laington's Reel http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1420 has 'Dillon Brown' and 'Dillon Brown's Fancy' listed as alternative titles, but the tune doesn't appear to be related to the one posted here.

# Posted on February 26th 2007 by granama

BTW, for consistency's sake, the two G2s in bars 8 &12 of the O'Brien & O'Raghallaigh version should have had ~s before them.

But, because of where they fall in the tune, the rolls could just as well be omitted altogether.

Another thing - they play it together on two B whistles, so it actually sounds in E.

# Posted on February 26th 2007 by granama

One more thing - they play it before Sarah Hobbs http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1281/comments

# Posted on February 26th 2007 by granama

Dillon Brown

Kevin O'Reilly writes: "Willie Clancy played this beautiful version of The Mountain Top for a collector called Chris Delaney in the early 1970s (you can get copies of his tapes from the University of North Carolina in America). Peter Laban found it in O'Neill's 1001 #527 with the name Dillon Brown. I know of two recent recordings of it - Enda Ó Catháin's fine CD Ó inné go inniú (under the title Willie Clancy's), and the McCarthy's on The Family Album."

# Posted on February 27th 2007 by slainte