OK, so I know stuff and have no idea what it’s called. Or, I find it, and the purported name is completely different from what I think it ought to be.
There are two reels of which I’m quite fond, and I was wondering if the Masses could tell me by what names they know these tunes.
First is the reel on Colm O’Donnel’s Farewell to Evening Dances entitled Trip to Birmingham. Does that also go by Josie McDermott’s?
Second (and I found a sound byte) is this great reel from O’Reilly (longer Gaelic spelling) and O’Brien’s great CD, Kitty Lie Over. Now is that Woman of the House, or something else? Or how do you know it?
I ask because I’m always bringing up tunes and although my flute guru knows them too, neither of us can ever come up with titles.
Yes, Josie McDermott wrote The Trip to Birmingham, and Colm O’Donnell plays it on Farewell to Evening Dances.
As for the other reel, I can’t listen to your sound clip because my dastardly employer prevents my access to mp3s. But I do have the Kitty Lie Over CD, and right now I’m listening to track 5, a great version of Woman of the House followed by Rolling in the Ryegrass. I’d guess that’s probably the track of which you speak.
