JOBM’s CD of Paddy Conneelly’s music, Take me tender…, just fell in the door here.
Superb stuff.
Deserves a mention here. And heaps of praise. So there you go.
Agreed. Got a copy at the Notrheast tionol here and listened to it going home on the Pike.
Wonderful growly tone, that set. Great tunes. Brilliant playing.
Is the CD available as a download or is the site the only place to get it?
That’s what I wanna know!! 
Hi guys. Paddy here. I have that young fellow working on a CD Baby availability - should be within the next few days. He is a bit out of touch with the technology. He was even thinking of recording it on cylinder for the authenticity! Hopefully it will be available by Friday. Will keep you posted.
PC
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http://jimmyobrienmoran.com/
OOOO! record it on a cylinder! That would be cool!
OOOO! record it on a cylinder! That would be cool!
There was a story Tom Munnelly told me. Tom shared an office for a while with Breandan Breathnach in UCD, various pipers and associates would drop in for a chat or other business. In the office was a press that held the cylinder collection and an Ediphone. According to Tom Pat Mitchelol came in one day and recorded ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ on a blank cylinder, in the style of Mici Cumba. At the time Tom said ‘we have yet to hear back on that one’.
I happen to know that “Take Me Tender” is a tune collected from Connelly, but a casual reader of this thread might think, like Blue Suede Shoes, that it’s some song associated with Elvis Presley…it’s a ballad, right?
There are collectors who’ll record “fresh” new cylinders for you. Truly old school.
Hope there’s some sax playing on JOBM’s new disc. 
Congrats on the new disc! Lots of liner notes, I assume? Usually they leave those out of the downloaded version.
He also plays weddings!
Yeah, it’s really too bad..
I wonder if new cylinders or phonographs can be made for stuff like this…
Sadly no sax, Kevin. ‘Take me tender and you’ll have me always’ was the translation of the Gaelic title of a reel - the first on the CD. But the allusion to Elvis was not unintentional - for a bit of fun. Lots of liner notes on the hard copy. A nice picture of the bass drone puck on the CD face too.
Question: How do you post a photo on this site? I tried the img button but it just gave the photo text address.
BTW CD uploaded to CD Baby. Should be available for downloads in a few days.
You have to upload the photo to a hosting site (such as imageshack.us). Then post the link to the hosting site using the “img” buttons.
Thanks PJ.
All reet, will order my plastic disc with good ol’ hard copy shortly here.
Will always remember getting started on the pipes with this fellow who had a full Britton set but mostly played the, you know, Scotch instrument He figured Irish pipers must learn their music the same way the, you know, real bagpipers did, whereas instead of the Scots Guards books they had P Mitchell, Vol 1. I tried my best to explain that, far as I could tell, people on whatever instrument playing this music didn’t actually learn that way, but nothing doing. He kept insisting that all you young hotshots on the Piper’s Rock LP were just slavishly following the score in the Willie book. 
Well, I sez to him, if this O’Brien-Moran guy is just mindlessly aping Clancy, well, he’s pretty damn good at it! Really funny in retrospect, those were good times.
Kevin, I suppose, because different musics require different learning styles, he could be forgiven for thinking that all ‘bagpipe’ music takes the same approach. I couldn’t read music at the time of ‘The Pipers’ Rock’ and, I suspect, neither could most of the other six participants. Had we taken your friend’s approach, everyone on ‘The Pipers’ Rock’ might have sounded the same but each piper sounded very different which, I think, is part of the charm of that LP/CD. I think that the ‘secret’ is to listen and absorb - every day, forever. I am still hearing new things. I got my first practice set (May 24th 1975 after a wait of about three years during which I ‘practiced’ every day by listening to piping for at least two hours. It was not a penance. I loved it. I would sit at the turntable with my headphones on (ok, my Dad’s headphones - which were a serious luxury at the time) and I’d read the LP cover notes over and over - or O’Neill’s Irish Minstrels and Musicians which I had purchased at Christmas 1974. By the time I started to get lessons my mind was a library of piping sounds, piping style, and piping idiom. It wasn’t so much mindless aping but mindful aping - I was trying to make the sounds that I loved. A time of frustration in some ways but the best of times in others.
Wow, reminds me of the 2011 Southern California Tionól, sitting and listening to this guy, JOBM, tell stories of his early days on the pipes. What a great storyteller he is!
Just got word that the ‘Take Me Tender’ CD is available on CD baby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/jimmyobrienmoran
for anyone who would rather the download.
Best wishes
Paddy Conneely
Listened to all the samples. Fecking magical!
…Hear, Hear!
As of 4pm Yorkshire time it seems that demand for Jimmy has crashed the entire CDbaby site!