“The Flogging Reel” is one of my favourite tunes. I don’t remember where I learned it from but I associate it with the great banjo player from Doolin, Kevin Griffin.
X:1
T:Flogging Reel (The)
R:Reel
M:4/4
K:G
|:B~G3 BGdG|B~G3 Bdgd|B~G3 BdcB|AGFG ABcA:||
~g3d BGBd|g2ge faaf|g2gd BdcB|AGFG ABcA|
~g3d BGBd|g2eg faa2|bgaf gedB|AGFG ABcA||
Bdgd Bdgd|Bdgd B~G3|Ac=fc Ac=fc|Ac=fc B~G3|
Bdgd Bdgd|Bdef ~g3a|bgaf gedB|AGFG ABcA||
“The Horsehoe” is a jig I learned from my friend JB Samzun (fiddle). JB learned it from John Joe Tuttle who told him it came from the playing of Patsy Geary, who had no name for it. He taught the tune to John Kelly Senior, who called it after his shop on Capel Street in Dublin, and the name stuck ever since.
“Jack Rowe’s” is an old Clare reel that I associate with the playing of Peader O’Loughlin and Maeve Donnelly, it is the opening tune on their classic album “The Thing Itself”.
I learned “The Further, The Deeper” from the beautiful recording “… Born For Sport” by Paul O’Shaugnessy & Harry Bradley. It was also recorded by Edel Fox and Neil Byrne under the name “Drive The Cows Home”.
