Peter Browne does an interview with Eamonn Cotter, on the programme “The Rolling Wave”. Includes some flute playing and discussion on flute making:
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/therollingwave/rams/2006/6december.smil
Also some very powerful fiddling by a couple of old traveller fiddlers after that.
I’ll say – the Raineys – that’s fantastic stuff!! Heaven…I’m going to have to break down and buy that CD, it’ll be the first CD I’ve bought all year.
Get that Rainey Boys CD. If you have to sell your granny, your front door, your flute get that CD.
Regards,
Harry.
WOW! This is amazing! Duly ordered; and yippee, Christmas gift CD conundrum resolved.
Here’s the link to Pavee Point’s ordering information:
http://www.paveepoint.ie/publications-culture.html
That fellow on the left in the photo; I assume he’s one of the Raineys? I’ve seen him in another photo or something somewhere – he’s got a pretty memorable face. I wonder where?
The photo has been used a lot. It (or a similar one of the boys) was on the cover of Ciaran Carson’s book ‘Last Night’s Fun’ (at least its on the cover of the edition I have).
Regards,
H.
Also notice their (nick)names one is ‘Spareparts’ Rainey
AHA! That’s it … that fellow glowered at me from my nightstand for the better portion of a month. I think it was a different photo, though.
Thank you!
“Spareparts Rainey.” Heh. That sounds like a name you’d hear in my neck of the woods (Appalachia).
Thanks again! I just had a nice note from the Pavee Centre people and am looking forward to its arrival. I want to play like THAT. (edited to add “Yah, right, Cath, in your dreams.”)
I received a copy of The Raineys from the Pavee Point Travellers Centre a couple of days. Great music, live pub recordings from the 1950’s - the real thing .. spirit. Kinda reminds of that archival recording of Joe Cooley made after he passed away
Funny thing is, the travellers don’t have a great reputation for what we might call honesty in modern Ireland at any rate but this little package came with invoice and kind request to pay in due course. Now very few established honest shops will trust their customers to that extent. So fair dues to them for extending a bit of trust to people.
I’d suspect that the print run of these CD’s would be fairly small .. so if you want a copy, you probabaly wouldn’t want to leave it too long.
Kinda reminds of that archival recording of Joe Cooley made after he passed away
I haven’t heard that one but the recordings made before he died are pretty lively most of the time, you should get hold of those too!
Sure can’t you hear him everywhere judging by the number of CD liners that quote Joe Cooley as an inspiration!! Bit like being in the GPO in 1916 (probably lost our USA friends there 
. Seriously though I think some of my favourite recordings are those I taped at a local session, partly 'cos I know the people playing but also because the elemental simplicity and complexity of the music shines through. Unlike a lot of over produced CD recordings these days - too clean!!
It’s wonderful to hear the program, sitting in my sunny kitchen recovering from knee-replacement surgery. The fiddling sounds very much like great American Old-Time fiddling- great lift and drive to it. My impression is that in the US most scholars link Old-Time music to Scottish roots but the Raineys sound more like Old-Time than most Scottish fiddlers I’ve heard.
Is this apparent to others or part of the private narcotic dream that I’ve been living in this past week?
Speaking of “Spare Parts” Rainey, I used to operate a car-repair garage out the back of my house. From time to time I would hire Johnny “Part-Time” Holden, a blue-grass fiddler who was always late and who seldom managed to put in a full day doing anything.
! That’s great. You’re a marvel of subtle wit, Mr. L.
Speaking of subtlety, I had a lovely note from Pavee Point; they’ve mailed me a copy of the Raineys CD as well and simply ask that I pay by return post. That is so wild! In fact, I wouldn’t mind paying them right away, but I have a really dumb provincial question I need help with … they said they’d like a cheque in Euros, but as my checks from my bank are physically printed with “Amount $__________ DOLLARS,” how does that work???
Or should I just send them a money order in Euros?
Sorry I’m such a maroon.
Cathy, most banks will draw up an international bank draft in whatever currency you need. However, be warned that some banks charge a lot for that service – when I lived in Vermont my bank charged $35 for an international draft, which would make that a rather expensive CD (but worth every penny of course!).
There are cheaper options that I looked into some years back…Stuart Hall turned me on to XEtrade, which offered a more affordable option, but I haven’t looked into that in many years…I’m sure others on the board will have some suggestions.
My copy of the Raineys cd and a request for payment just came also in Illinois. I guess I’ll have to go to the bank tomorrow and find out how to cut someone a check in euros. I’ll report back.
The version of Over The Moore To Maggie on the album gives me chills. I always hear it in a pretty straightforward major key, but they somehow manage to keep it from ever really landing on any specific chord. Now I’m going to have to pick it apart and figure out how they did that. 
Got mine in Kentucky within a week of ordering; same deal so am off to the bank today. Thank you so much for the help, Brad & all! I was utterly clueless.
The CD is fantastic. Makes me think about styles and settings all the more … and wonder whether some of the settings were their unique takes, or whether the settings we play now have varied that much since then … ? (I suppose it’s a little of both?)
Anyway, me and my fiddler fella (it was his Christmas present) were fascinated from the get-go. It’s an essential, for sure.