Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for Sweet Rural Shade by Boys of the Lough

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Artist NameBoys of the Lough
Album TitleSweet Rural Shade
MusiciansAly Bain (fiddle), Cathall McConnell (flute, whistle, vocals), Dave Richardson (concertina, mandolin, cittern), Christy O'Leary (pipes, whistle, vocals), John Coakley (guitar, piano), with Ed Littlefield (pedal steel, Highland pipes), Ron Shaw (cello).
Source and
other information		Shanachie SH 79068, 1988. Recorded 1987-88.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
1489		 JigD Out on the Ocean / Out in the Ocean / Over the Sea / Portroe Jig / Portroe / O'Connell's Jig on Top of Mount Everest / Split the Whisker / The Banks of Ahasnagh / Banks of Ahasnagh / Crossing the Bogs / Mick Mulcahy's / Tierney's Jig / A Clare Jig (for 3rd figure of The West Kerry Set on JRSLCB 2) (also in A)
2 Tune Info
3096		 JigD An Fathach Éireannach / Mooney's Jig
3 Tune Info
3913		 JigD Isabelle Blackley
21 Tune Info
3914		 Song Todd's Sweet Rural Shade
31 Tune Info
3915		 Waltz Forest Flower
3(3:11)2 Tune Info
3916		 Reel Kitty the Hare (compare especially 1st parts with Blacksmith's Reel #2161)
33 Tune Info
922		 Reel Jenny Dang the Weaver (also in G) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of The Longford Tinker #1150)
41 Tune Info
3917		 Song Once I Loved
51 Tune Info
3918		 JigD Maho Snaps / The Maho Snaps / The Magho Snaps (composed by Mick Hoy)
2 Tune Info
3305		 JigD Charlie Hunter's / Charlie Hunter (1st in The Kinvara Set on MV; 1st in set Cape Breton Jigs on MMM) (composed by Bobby McLeod)
3 Tune Info
1274		 JigD Merry Old Woman, The / Merry Old Woman / The Merry Old Woman Jig / The Mouse in the Cupboard / Repeal of the Union / The Walls of Enniscorthy / Ballaí Lios Chearbhaill / The Walls of Liscarroll / The Rakes of Newcastle West / Wollop the Potlid / Duignan's Odd Jig
4 Tune Info
3297		 JigD Rosewood, The / Rosewood / Rósadhmad / Sean McGuire's (composed by Scott Skinner?)
61 Tune Info
3957		 Piece Humours of Flinn, The
2 Tune Info
3958		 Waltz Tim O'Leary's Waltz (also in A)
71 Tune Info
3919		 Song Hills of Donegal, The
81 Tune Info
3920		 March Captain Carswell
2 Tune Info
1235		 Reel The Green Hills of Tyrol / Tripping down the Stairs (3rd in set The Green Hills of Tyrol on AbsIr; mislabeled as Maud McQuillan on Arc 1) (compare as jig #769)
3 Tune Info
3921		 Reel Trip to Windsor, The / Spootaskerry (2nd in set Punch on Lu 5 and Lu 7) (composed by Dan R. MacDonald or Ian Burns)
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