Tag Archives: Slide
Road To Lisdoonvarna (Edor)
The slide “Road To Lisdoonvarna” was popularized on this side of the pond (the States) by Grey Larsen (b. 1955) & Malcolm Dalglish (b. 1952), on their album Banish Misfortune (1977). They played this tune in a set of four: “The Road to Lisdoonvarna/Trip to Sligo/Dennis Murphy’s Slide/O’Keefe’s Slide,” where the first and last tunes are very […]
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Merrily Kiss the Quaker’s Wife (G)
“Merrily Kiss the Quaker’s Wife” is a West Kerry slide. It’s also called “Merrily Kiss the Quaker.” As noted in my Tune Dictionary, slides are too often confused with other tune-types, especially single jigs. At any rate, this tune is sometimes played as a double jig in sessions. Now this tune is old. Really old! […]
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The Brosna Slide #1 (G)
I learned this slide as “The Brosna,” as have many others. However, many years ago I learned another slide called “The Brosna,” and then came to find still other slides called “The Brosna.” The fact that there are many tunes by this name is probably due to the playing of the Brosna Céili Band from […]