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The Rainy Day

reel

Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on May 18th 2007 by Dow.

This tune has been added to 34 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

1975 The First by The Bothy Band
A Compilation Of Young Uilleann Pipers by The Pipers Rock
An Crann Carraige (Concertina Melodies From Tuamgraney, East Clare) by Martin O'Brien
Ar An Bhfidil by Oisin MacDiarmada
Castle Ceili Band by Castle Ceili Band
Clare Accordion by Seamus Walshe
Down From Bell Harbour by Chris Droney
East Of The Tracks by Brigetown
Feadoga Stain by Mary Bergin
Forty Years Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
Hives Of Honeyed Sound by Padraic Mac Mathuna
In The Footsteps Of Coleman by Various Artists
Kathleen Keane by Kathleen Keane
Matt Molloy, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples by Matt Molloy, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples
Music Of Dreams by Noel Hill And Tony MacMahon With Iarla O Lionaird
Music Of Dreams by Tony Mac Mahon, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Noel Hill
Notes From The Heart by Mick, Louise And Michelle Mulcahy
Outside The Box by Billy McComiskey
Piper's Rock by Various Artists
Piping Hot by Various Artists
Raise The Rafters by Molly's Revenge
Rian by Liam O'Maonlai
Sean Potts by Sean Potts And Paddy Moloney
Set Dancing Downunder by The Coast Ceili Band
Set On Stone by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
Sets In The City by Tipsy House
Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
The Best Of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis
The Green Fields Of Ireland by Comhaltas Tour Group 1979
The Hop Down by Breda Keville
The Phantom Shadows Of A Connaught Fire (2 Of 3) by Seamus Tansey
The Raineys by The Raineys
The Twentieth Anniversary Collection by Various Artists
Traditional Irish Music Played On The Uilleann Pipes by Robbie Hannan
Tree by Gaelic Storm
When The World Was Wide by Trouble In The Kitchen
Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 1 by Various Artists

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The Rainy Day

This is the tune recorded by the Bothy Band, Mary Bergin and Trouble In The Kitchen. There is another tune called the Rainy Day, but it is not the same (both get played at our session). The only similarity is that it's a reel in the same key. This one is more similar to tunes like The Bunch Of Keys http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/344 and Junior Crehan's Farewell To Miltown http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/539, but more often than not, those two are played in G dorian. My transcription is from the Bothy Band's first album, where it is paired with The Navvy On The Shore http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1273 (mislabelled on the recording as The Navvy On The Line). You can hear Trouble In The Kitchen playing this here http://www.thepuredrop.com.au/artists/titk.htm.

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by Dow

Good stuff!

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by merro

Bt that I meant it's good to see it transcribed. It's a bit misleading when you see Mary Bergin (version I play which is pretty much as you have it) and you bring up the dots and that's not it!

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by merro

This distinct version is also on Breda Keville's stunning fiddle solo album. She cites another East Galway musician Conor Tully as the source. Joe Burke, also from E. Galway, didn't record this version on his album. Where does this come from?

This is different, but IMO still related to the more common setting: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1807

Other related tunes are:
Mills are Grinding (in Gmaj): http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5779
The Ewe Wi' The Crookit Horn (Gmix/Gdor): http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5610

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by slainte

Merro, it was you who made me think to post this one actually, since you've started this tune the last couple of times you've been at the session and reminded me of its existence.

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by Dow

Dow, do you know there's a cool Gm Scots reel called "The Old Reel," or "Cairngorm Brooch"? That's also similar to this. Wish it were a flute-friendly tune....

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by slainte

Yes, I do know. It's the same tune as the Bunch Of Keys, which I pointed out when I first posted this tune http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/344/details.

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by Dow

Slainte, did you know that some people play it in a flute-friendly key, just for you? http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/338

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by Dow

Sadly the lad hasn't the pads to half-hole... :-(

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by ceolachan

Slainte - Bunch of *Keys* .... hint, hint. Where have you been? Paddy Carty copped on half a century ago.

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by ragaman

:-)

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by ragaman

I actually prefer the Scots version and am not very interested in playing The Bunch of Keys in Ador. I'd rather learn to play this lovely version of the Rainy Day, after hearing Breda Keville's haunting playing of it.

No, I don't any pad on my flute to play good tunes.

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by slainte

I once had a chance to see and touch legendary Eddie Moloney's keyed flute with all the bunch of keys ripped off. Do you believe he and Mr. Carty were almost neighbours in East Galway?

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by slainte

You'd learn this version of the Rainy Day, Slainte? But only yesterday you said "But I don't feel like playing any Ador reel at the moment". Make up your mind! ;-)

# Posted on May 18th 2007 by Dow

As a substitute for the Scots Gm reel.... And I want to try the set of "Mills are Grinding" into this "Rainy Day." It'd be a nice set just like Copperplates.

I think I should have typed: Eddie Moloney's "keyed" flute with its keys violently ripped off.... On second thought, it might have been Stephen Moloney's.

# Posted on May 19th 2007 by slainte

Gdor Version

Here's Breda Keville's version:

Hope there's no serious mistake. To put it in Ador,

# Posted on May 19th 2007 by slainte

I don't feel like learning this in Gdor. Most people learnt this tune from the Bothy Band album, so I'll stick with the majority.

# Posted on May 19th 2007 by Dow

In some parts of UK and Ireland, people don't learn tunes from recordings, so you can't say the Bothy version is definitive. But I agree this should be played in Ador. Otherwise it'd be just a version of "Bunch of Keys."

# Posted on May 19th 2007 by slainte

I think you'd be hard pushed to find a single traditional musician who doesn't learn at least some of their tunes from recordings these days, Slainte. They might be learning tunes from other sources too, but the Bothy Band were too influential to ignore. I don't know if you realise this, but the reason a lot of the tunes you play are popular today is because influential bands like the Bothies recorded them, or earlier musicians like Coleman. Why do you suppose everyone knows the Coleman sets like Tarbolton etc? It's because the tunes didn't just emerge magically from a peat bog somewhere. They had to be popularised by someone and then passed on from musician to musician (after all, recordings are hardly a new thing). To ignore that fact is to miss the bigger picture of how the session repertoire came about, I think.

# Posted on May 19th 2007 by Dow

Also, a tune doesn't cease to become a version of something else just because of a key change. Musicians change the key of tunes all the time to suit their own instruments. That doesn't mean they're suddenly playing a different tune.

# Posted on May 19th 2007 by Dow

Of course, I know all what you mean. Most of common tunes were popularised through the recordings of influential musicians or bands. But few people would cite those recordings as the direct sources. This means tunes wouldn't be played just as recorded. And you are not copying the exact version of this tune note for note from the Bothy, are you?

Anyway, I don't think we have particularly different opinions about this music in general. So, shall we shut up and just play? Was it me or you, who started this?

# Posted on May 20th 2007 by slainte

You, definitely :-)

# Posted on May 20th 2007 by Dow

Glad you got that sorted. Thanks for posting this one, Dow.
I remember looking up the dots for this tune a couple of years ago on this site and thinking that's not the same as what I am hearing on the Bothy Band album. Trouble in the Kitchen's version is pretty inspiring as well. I might give it another go.

# Posted on May 20th 2007 by harry

Pardon?

Dow, let's not forget to play this tune when we meet up again.

# Posted on May 20th 2007 by slainte

This particular version of the tune is also on Chris Droney's "Down from Bell Harbour." I just heard him play it on the radio weeks ago, so don't know the source.

# Posted on August 4th 2007 by slainte