Twenty-five tracks of the great Donegal fiddler from the 1960s and the 1970s.
These recordings were made when John was at his musical best and are some of the most important fiddle tracks in the Irish tradition.
They are accompanied by extensive learned notes by Alun Evans and Dermot McLaughlin.
Tracklist :
1. The Spirits of Wine & Madame Bonaparte
2. The Farther in the Deeper
3. An Chúilfhionn (The Coolin) & The Flogging Reel
4. Drops of Brandy
5. Miss Patterson's Slipper
6. The Day I Listed & The Fantastic Reel
7. Willie McLennan's
8. The Lancers Jig & Gusty's Frolics
9. Tom Tailor's
10. Scots Mary
11. The Sligo Maid's Lament & Hand Me Down the Tackle
12. The Enniskillen Dragoons, Nóra Críonna & Píobaire an Chéideadh (The Keady Piper)
13. The Cameronian
14. Dúlamán na Binne Buí
15. Within a Mile of Dublin & Old Simon's Hornpipe
16. The Glenconwell Hornpipe
17. The Mint in the Corn
18. The Highlanders and The Wind that shakes the Barley
19. Seán sa Cheo (Seán in the Fog)
20. King George IV
21. The Lancers Jig & The Silver Slipper
22. The Mountain Road
23. The Braes of Mass
24. Bonnie Kate
25. Maidin Fhómhair (One Harvest Morning) & Miss McLeod
Produced by Dermot McLaughlin.
Original recordings made from 1968 to 1974 by Alun Evans.
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