Willie Clancy - The Gold Ring
The tracks on this two CD set were selected by RTÉ radio presenter and producer Peter Browne and come from the RTÉ Libraries and Archives as well as number of other organisations and private collectors. This double CD is a most comprehensive collection of Willie Clancy’s piping from a period of over twenty years. It brings together recordings from many different places, times and sources and provides the opportunity to hear over two and a half hours of his playing.
CD1
1 Jigs: Down the Back Lane, Sergeant Early’s 2.42
2 Reels: An Bhean Tincéara, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn 2.29
3 Air: The Bold Trainer O 2.54
4 Reels: The Connaught Heifers, Corney is Coming 2.32
5 Jig: The Frieze Britches 2.51
6 Reels: The Steampacket, Rakish Paddy 3.06
7 Air: The Trip over the Mountain 2.33
8 Hornpipes: The Faithful Friend, The Plains of Boyle 3.16
9 Single Jig and Slip Jig: Fraher’s, An Phis Fhliuch 3.34
10 Air: Dark Lochnagar 3.20
11 Reels: Jenny Picking Cockles, My Love is in America 3.29
12 Fling: Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Fair 1.25
13 Slip Jigs: Give Us a Drink of Water, Hardiman the Fiddler, Will You Come Down to Limerick? 4.00
14 Double Jig: The Rolling Wave 1.41
15 Jig: An Ghaoth Aniar Aneas 1.08
16 Mazurka: Garret Barry’s 1.55
17 Reel: The Old Bush 1.16
18 Air: The Rocks of Bawn 1.58
19 Reels: The West Wind, Seán Reid’s Fancy 2.10
20 Jig: Páidín Ó Raifeartaigh 2.21
21 Air: Ar Éirinn Ní Neosfainn Cé hÍ 2.16
22 Hornpipe: Harvest Home 1.25
23 Air: Casadh an tSúgáin 2.25
24 Single Jig: Title unknown – No. 70 in DMWC 0.56
25 Air: The Little Red Lark 2.26
26 Jig: I Buried my Wife and Danced on Top of Her 1.36
27 Reel: The Milliner’s Daughter 1.20
28 Fling: The Fowler on the Moor 1.07
29 Jig: A Chailleach, do Mharais Mé 1.38
30 Set Dance: Seán Ó Duibhir a’ Ghleanna 1.58
31 Fling: Caisleán Dhún Guaire 1.09
32 Set Dance: Mount Phoebus Hunt 2.05
33 Air: Sliabh na mBan 3.07
34 Air: Róisín Dubh 2.13
CD2
1 Jigs: Garret Barry’s, Old Tipperary, The Lark in the Corn 3.50
2 Reels: Garret Barry’s, Kitty Gone A-Milking 3.45
3 Hornpipe: The Groves 3.40
4 Jig: The Gold Ring 3.46
5 Reel: The Colliers 1.34
6 Air and Hornpipe: Annie Dear, The High Level 3.34
7 Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle 1.30
8 Air: An Buachaill Caol Dubh 2.41
9 Jig: Tatter Jack Walsh 1.07
10 Reel: Rakish Paddy 2.35
11 Jigs: Coppers and Brass, The Humours of Ennistymon 3.12
12 Reel: Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie 1.57
13 Air: ’Sé Fáth mo Bhuartha 2.48
14 Air: The Dear Irish Boy 3.48
15 Air: My Lagan Love 2.42
16 Air: An Chúilfhionn 2.39
17 Reel: The Bucks of Oranmore 1.55
18 Reel: The Bunch of Keys 2.14
19 Reels: The Green Gates, The Satin Slipper, The London Lasses 2.40
20 Jig: Nóra Chríonna 1.08
21 Reel: Patsy Touhey’s 1.46
22 Jigs: The Gander in the Pratie Hole, Bímís ag Ól 2.08
23 Air: The Bonny Bunch of Roses 2.27
24 Air and Reel: Purty Molly Brallaghan, The Green Fields of America 3.43
25 Air: The Bright Lady 1.34
26 Hornpipe: Chief O’Neill’s 1.34
27 Jig: The Yellow Wattle 1.37
28 Fling: Easter Snow 1.38
29 Jig: The Humours of Ballyloughlin 2.14
30 Jig: Banish Misfortune 2.30
31 Air: An Páistín Fionn 2.43