To
date Rig the Jig have recorded Four top-selling albums: 'One Night
in Harlow's (1998), 'Finding the Gold' (1999), Stormy Brew (2002)
and their latest release 'Passing Through'. These are available
to purchase here.
In addition both Michael Banahan and Noel Carberry have recorded
their own albums. More
Info.
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| PASSING THROUGH |
TRACKS |
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| 1. |
Frieze Britches (jigs) |
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| 2. |
Barley and Grape Rag |
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| 3. |
Passing Through |
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| 4. |
I Still Miss Someone |
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| 5. |
Goldsmith's Lament (Slow Air) |
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| 6. |
City of New Orleans |
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Over The Moor (Reels) |
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| 8. |
My Home by Lough Ree |
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The Pigeon on the Gate (Reels) |
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| 10. |
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness |
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| 11. |
Kathleen Hehir's (Jigs) |
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| 12. |
The Liftin' of the Latch |
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| 13. |
The Clumsy Lover (Slow Air/Jig/Reel) |
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| 14. |
Raglan Road |
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| STORMY BREW |
TRACKS |
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| 1. |
Take Her In Your Arms |
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| 2. |
Connaught Combination (Jigs) |
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| 3. |
Hard Times |
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| 4. |
Southern Surprise (Slides / Reel) |
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| 5. |
Storms On The Ocean |
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| 6. |
Slow Air |
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| 7. |
McComiskeys Set (Reels) |
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| 8. |
The Errant Apprentice |
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| 9. |
Steady Does It (Reels) |
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| 10. |
The Groves Of Kilteevan |
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| 11. |
Morning Dew Set (Reel / Jig) |
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| 12. |
Goin The Wrong Direction |
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| 13. |
Christmas Eve Set (Reels) |
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| 14. |
McKeown And I |
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| ONE NIGHT IN HARLOW'S |
TRACKS |
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| 1. |
Say You Love Me |
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| 2. |
Reels - The Mount Cisco Set |
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| 3. |
Paradise |
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| 4. |
Slow Reels |
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| 5. |
Jigs - The Kesh Set |
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| 6. |
Erris |
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Reels - The Kerrigan Set |
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| 8. |
Half An Inch Of Water And You Think You're Gonna
Drown |
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| 9. |
Mr. Connaughton |
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| 10. |
Reels - The Congress Set |
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| 11. |
Wonderful Feeling |
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| 12. |
Carolina Star |
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| 13. |
Slow Air & Reel |
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| 14. |
The Banks Of The Lee |
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| FINDING THE GOLD |
TRACKS |
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Man of the House Set |
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| 2. |
Green Valley |
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| 3. |
Roseland Set |
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| 4. |
Please Don't Bury Me |
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| 5. |
Banjo Hornpipes |
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| 6. |
Mexican Home |
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| 7. |
Supermarket Wine |
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| 8. |
Uilleann Pipes Solo |
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| 9. |
The Line |
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| 10. |
The Irishman in Chinatown |
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| 11. |
Rose in the Heather Set |
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| 12. |
Inishbofin |
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| 13. |
Ashokan Farewell |
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Passing
Through Sleeve Notes
Produced by Paul Gurney
Recorded at Real World Studios, Longford Ireland
Recorded and Engineered by Paul Gurney
Mixed by Paul Gurney
Mastered by Robyn Robins at Mid Atlantic Digital, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh,
Ireland
Sleve Design and Art Direction by Zachary Harpur
Cover Photograph by Hugh Glynn
Additional Photography by Chris O'Gara
Rig the Jig Members
Michael Banahan Vocal, Backing Vocals, Bodhran
Johnnie Duffy Vocal, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, banjo
Noel Carberry Uilleann pipes, whistles, bones
Brendan Doyle Button accordion
Jimmy Flanagan Vocal, backing vocal, banjo
Paul Gurney Bass, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards
Guest Musician
Brendan Emmet Acoustic Guitar, mandolin
Acknowledgements
Rig the Jig would like to express sincere thanks to the
following poeple for their help and support over the year.
The numerous members of our respective families;
The Doyles, the Duffys, the Carberrys, the Banahans, the Gurneys &
The Flanagans. Your help and support means so much to all of us.
To the memory of Christopher (Kit) Reilly
Elaine O'Reilly, Sue Dwyer, Kellyann Gurney, Zachary Harpur, Chris O'Gara
Tommy Reynolds
Peter Cassidy
Mike and Dee Considine
Everyone at Toucan Cove
All our friends in Peroria, Illnois
Robyn and all at Mid Atlantic Digital
Paddy McManus
Gerhard and all at the s`Neusiedler Ohrwaschl Folk Club, Austria
Pat and Liz Hurley
Caolin Kelly
Tom Kelly
Mannix and Mary McPhilips
Joe Cunniffe
Vinny Higgins
Joe Duffy
Aoife Finneran
Gretchen McDonald
Brendan McDermott
Ciara McDermott
Anthony and Sheila McDermott
Caroline Conroy
Charlie and Goretti McGetigan
Paddy Ryan
Joe Finnegan
Mary Kennedy
John and Eileen Doorly
Jill Miller
Paul Healy
Angela Doyle
Brendan Emmet
Brian McNamara
Dan Carmody
Mick Barry
Frank McKenna
John O'Regan
Mike Fleicher
George Browne
Roz and Howard Larman
Kevin and Catherine Mularky
Barley And Grape Rag
Rory Gallagher / BMG Music Publ Ltd.
Well I don't care if I get arrested,
For tonight they'll need more than a ball and chain'
And I don't care just who's interested,
Cos I'm coming into town just the same,
I've been so alone, I've been feeling blue,
I think I need a little drink or two,
Be my friend tell me where that place is,
Where the whiskey flows and the dices roll till dawn.
My baby's done me wrong you must have guessed it,
My heart's so low I think it must be torn,
And I don't want to know where east or west is,
'Cos pretty soon I won't feel the cold.
I been walking down main street, feeling no pain,
Along comes a cop, he can take my name,
Explain to me what a federal case is,
I'm mixing the barley with the grape again.
Instrumental
Bright City Lights, make you feel alright,
I'm right or wrong but tomorrow never comes,
Well I don't care if I get investigated,
Oh the city fathers they all black my name
I'm pretty sure you can smell the traces,
But tomorrow morning, I'll take the blame,
I've been so alone, I've been feeling blue
I think I need a little drink or two,
Be my friend tell me where that place is,
For tonight I'm gonna sleep on a walking-cane
Instrumental
For tonight I'm gonna sleep on a walking-cane
City Of New Orleans
Steve Goodman / Sony / ATV Music Publishing
Good morning America, how are you?
Don't you know me, I'm your native son
i'm the train the call the City of New Orleans
And I'll be gone five hundred miles before the day is done
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinos Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odessey train pulls out of
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One
Night in Harlow's - Sleeve Notes
Michael Banahan - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bodhran
Noel Carberry - Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle
Brendan Doyle - Accordion
Johnnie Duffy - Banjo, Acoustic Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals
John Freeley - Banjo, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Produced by - Charlie McGettigan
Recorded at - L.G. Studios, Newtownforbes, Co. Longford
Engineered by - Paul Gurney
Mixed by - Charlie McGettigan, Paul Gurney & Johnnie Duffy
Mastered by - Robyn Robins
Original Photography - Chris O'Gara, castle Street, Roscommon
Design - Zachary Harper
Rig the Jig would like to express sincere gratitude to
the following for kind assistance given,
J.J. Harlow's Bar, Roscommon
Burke;s Bar, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon
Sexton's Bar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Gilligan's Old World Tavern, Athleague, Co. Roscommon
The Royal Hotel, Roscommon
O'Brien's Bar Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
The Sliabh Ban hotel, Ballyleague, Lanesboro, Co. Roscommon
The Village Inn, Glasson, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
The Swan Tavern, Lanesboro, Co. Longford
Special thanks to Aidan & Una Davy, and Shirley Whyte, Thanks to Jimmy
Flanagan, Lanesboro, Co. Longford for 'Erris' & to Des O'Halloran,
Inis Boffin, Co. Mayo for 'Say You Love Me'. A very special thank you
to Charlie McGettigan, Paul Gurney & Larry Keogh, not forgetting Shay
Hennessy and all at Asdee Music. Your health Gentlemen!
This album is dedicated to the memory
of Dan Davy, a stalwart of Irish Music.
"I just want to be able to reproduce what a night in Harlow's is
like", said Michael Banahan in his usual highly enthusiastic way,
"warts and all". "That sounds like a pretty tall order"
I replied, "to reproduce one night in Harlow's could take three days
in the studio".
That was the gist of my first conversation with Michael in regard to
this project. I know, from working with Michael before, that if it was
what he wanted to do then it would be done. Questions raced in my head!
Who were "Rig the Jig"? Would they be able to play? I asked
Michael to bring the band around to my house in Drumshanbo on the following
Monday night and with trepidation I waited for their arrival.
They arrived in dribs and drabs. Big John Freeley arrived with Michael
and Noel Carberry and was talking me through the project before I'd even
heard a note. I think John had the album already recorded in his own mind
but I soon settled him almost like you would settle an under 14 football
team - John has that kind of enthusiasm. Noel I was aware of by reputation,
but he was constantly reminding us how bad a piper he was and wondering
what he was doing here at all. But once I heard him play I knew exactly
why he was here - to blow us away with the sheer excitement of every note
he played.
Johnnie Duffy and Brendan Doyle arrived later. Brendan had a lecture
and apologised for his late arrival and Johnnie just took out his instruments
and in no time was up and at it. And, of course, Michael - Enough said!
We ran through what the band hoped to achieve for four hours and to be
honest I was worried. The music was really exciting but the organisation
was to say the least, 'ropey'. I threw in my tuppence halfpenny worth
and the boys went off into the night promising to practice night and day
for the next ten days. I didn't believe a word of it.
Anyway the first day of recording eventually arrived and into LG Studios,
Longford we all traipsed. Paul Gurney, our very affable engineer for the
sessions must have wondered what he was in for. John Freely marvelled
at all the accoutrements: Noel worried about his 12 year old reed and
whether this was the day it would eventually give up. Johnnie Duffy was
tuning up his instruments before they were out of the cases and Brendan
was wondering how all the instruments would be heard. Michael Banahan,
the old pro, had seen it all before but was suitably respectful of the
task in hand.
After everyone had become accustomed to the environment we were straight
into the session. From the very first set of tunes, I knew that this was
going to be Fun with a capital F. For the next two days we ran through
fourteen pieces of music and by 6:30 the following day the project was
in the can.
In recording there are always surprises. We were about finished on the
second day when Johnnie began telling me about a secret weapon. "Is
it a Scud or what?" I asked. It turned out to be a 'Bombshell from
Boffin'. I sat in the studio waiting to hear this surprise package wondering
what am I going to hear now - I hate surprises. Johnnie closed his eyes
and in a voice which was a mixture of Hank Williams and Sean Keane he
bemoaned the fact that some girl or other who lived either in Nashville
or Connemara had refused to 'Say You Love Me'. I was shell shocked! "You
certainly know how to keep the good wine till last." I thought! I
think a hit single was born.
Johnnie, Paul and myself quietly mixed the album the next day and listening
back over and over again, as you do when you're mixing, all the crack
of the previous two days kept coming back. The excitement of Noel Carberry's
pipes as he went from the slow air 'Sliabh na mBan' into 'Colonel Fraser'.
The committed singing of John Freeley on 'The Banks of the Lee'. The tear
in the voice of Michael Banahan as he wished 'Mr. Connaughton's' daughter
was his little sister. The quite dignity of Brendan Doyle playing 'The
Maghera Mountains' and his own 'Sliabh Ban' reels. And the anguished rendition
of Johnnie Duffy's 'Say you Love Me'.
Once again Michael Banahan has brought me into a most enjoyable project
and if producing continues to be this much fun I think I'll take it up.
Charlie McGettigan
1. Say You Love Me (Halo Brown) Cop Con
Lead Vocal and Fiddle - Johnnie Duffy
Acoustic Guitar - John Freeley
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Backing Vocals - Michael Banahan, Noel Carberry, John Freeley
2. Reels - The Mount Cisco Set:
The Maid of Mount Cisco / The Humours of Tulla / The Glass of Beer
(Trad Arr Johnnie Duffy, John Freeley, Michael Banahan, Noel Carberry,
Brendan Doyle) Asdee Music
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
Banjo - John Freeley
Acoustic Guitar - Johnnie Duffy
Bodhran - Michael Banahan
3. Paradise (John Prine) Warner Chappell Music
Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Michael Banahan
Banjo - Johnnie Duffy
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
Acoustic Guitar - John Freeley
Backing Vocals - Johnnie Duffy, John Freeley, Charlie McGettigan
4. Slow Reels: Maghera Mountains / Sliabh Ban Reels
(Trad Arr Johnnie Duffy, John Freeley, Michael Banahan, Noel Carberry,
Brendan Doyle) Asdee Music
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Acoustic Guitar - Johnnie Duffy
5. Jigs - The Kesh Set: The Kesh Jig / Calipo House
(Trad Arr Johnnie Duffy, John Freeley, Michael Banahan, Noel Carberry,
Brendan Doyle) Asdee Music
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Banjo - Johnnie Duffy
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
Acoustic Guitar - John Freeley
Bodhran - Michael Banahan
6. Erris (Michael Flanagan) Asdee Music
Lead Vocal - John Freeley
Tin Whistle - Noel Carberry
Acoustic Guitar - Johnnie Duffy
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
7. Reels - The Kerrigan Set: The Cottage in the Grove / The Star
of Munster
(Trad Arr. John Freeley, Michael Banahan, Noel Carberry, Brendan Doyle,
Johnnie Duffy)
Banjo - John Freeley
Acoustic Guitar - Johnnie Duffy
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
8. Half an Inch of Water and You Think You're Gonna Drown (John
Prine) Warner Chappell Music
Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Michael Banahan
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Acoustic Guitar - John Freeley
Banjo - Johnnie Duffy
Backing Vocals - Johnnie Duffy, John Freeley
9. Mr. Connaughton (Ralph McTell) Misty River Music
Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - Michael Banahan
10. Reels - Congress Set: The Blackberry Blossom / The Congress
Reel / The Bucks of Oranmore
(Trad Arr. Michael Banahan, Johnnie Duffy, Noel Carberry, Brendan Doyle,
John Freeley) Asdee Music
Banjo - Johnnie Duffy
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Bodhran - Michael Banahan
Acoustic Guitar - John Freeley
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
11. Wonderful Feeling (Michael Banahan) Asdee Music
Lead Vocal - Michael Banahan
Acoustic Guitar - Johnnie Duffy
12. Carolina Star (H Moffatt) Marada Music
Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar - John Freeley
Banjo - Johnnie Duffy
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Backing Vocals - Michael Banahan & Johnnie Duffy
13. Slow Air and Reel: Sliabh NA mBan / Colonel Fraser
(Trad Arr. John Freeley, Noel Carberry, Brendan Doyle, Michael Banahan,
Johnnie Duffy) Asdee Music
Uilleann Pipes - Noel Carberry
14. The Banks of the Lee
(Trad Arr. Brendan Doyle, John Freeley, Michael Banahan, Johnnie Duffy,
Noel Carberry) Asdee Music
Accordion - Brendan Doyle
Acoustic Guitar - Johnnie Duffy
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Finding
the Gold - Sleeve Notes
Michael Banahan: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bodhran
Jimmy Flanagan: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica
Brendan Doyle: Accordion
Noel Carberry: Uilleann Pipes, Whistle, Bodhran, Backing Vocals
Johnnie Duffy: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Nylon String Guitar
Produced by: Charlie McGettigan
Engineered by: Paul Gurney
Mixed by: Charlie McGettigan, Johnnie Duffy and Paul Gurney
Recorded at: L.G. Studios, Longford
Mastered by: Robyn Robins at Mid Atlantic Digital, Co. Fermanagh
Design: Zachary Harper
Original Photography: Wolfgang Gonaus Lenkgasse 43 / A-1220 Wien
/ Austria
Tel: (+43) 1 / 954 98 36 wolfgang.gonaus@chello.ay
Thanks: Rig the Jig would like to sincerely thank
each of the following: Charlie McGettigan - for all his friendship and
inspiration, Larry Keogh and Paul Gurney, LG Studios Longford - for all
your hard work and hospitality. Bernie Flanagan and Maura Duffy - for
all the food and for lending us your homes. Sue Dwyer - for her inspiration
on "Inishbofin". Shirley Whyte - for another job well done.
Jim Kelleher, Ballymahon, Co. Longford - from whose fine singing we learned
"The Line". Larry and Aileen O'Gara, The Royal Hotel, Roscommon
- for their kind hospitality always. Liam and Valerie Callaghan, Liam
and Valerie Callaghan, Castlerea, Co, Roscommon.
Man of the House Set: Man of the house / Castle Kelly
/ Fergal O'Gara (Trad. Arrangement: M. Banahan, B Doyle, J. Duffy, N.
Carberry, J. Flanagan - Asdee Music) Uilleann Pipes: N. Carberry. Accordion:
B. Doyle. Banjo: J. Flanagan. Bodhran: M. Banahan, N. Carberry & J.
Duffy
Green Valley: (Glen Reid - Morning Music Ltd.) Lead
Vocal/Banjo: J. Flanagan, Accordion: B. Doyle. Acoustic Guitar,: J. Duffy.
Whistle: N. Carberry. Backing Vocals: M. Banahan, N. Carberry & J.
Duffy.
Roseland Set: Roseland Barndance/Minnie Foster's
(Trad. Arrangement: M Banahan, B. Doyle, J. Duffy, N. Carberry, J. Flanagan
- Asdee Music)
Accordion: B. Doyle. Acoustic Guitar J. Duffy
Please Don't Bury Me (John Prine - Warner Chappell
Music) Lead Vocals: M. Banahan. Acoustic Guitar: J. Duffy. Banjo: J. Flanagan.
Backing Vocals: J. Duffy, J. Flanagan & N. Carberry
Banjo Hornpipes: Billy Malley's Schottishe / Japanese
Hornpipe. (Trad. Arrangement: M. Banahan, B. Doyle, J. Duffy, N. Carberry,
J. Flanagan - Asdee Music). Banjos: J. Duffy, & J. Flanagan. Acoustic
Guitar: B. Doyle.
Mexican Home: (John Prine - Warner Chappell Music)
Lead Vocals/Acoustic Guitar: M. Banahan. Accordion: B. Doyle. Nylon String
Guitar: J. Duffy. Bodhran: N. Carberry. Harmonica: J. Flanagan. Backing
Vocals: J. Duffy & J. Flanagan.
Supermarket Wine: (Mickey McConnell - Elm Grove Music)
Lead Vocal J. Flanagan. Acoustic Guitar J. Duffy.
Uilleann Pipes Solo: The Trip Over the Mountain /
The Maid Behind The Barrel. (Trad Arrangement: M. Banahan, B Doyle, J.
Duffy, N. Carberry, J. Flanagan - Asdee Music) Uilleann Pipes: N. Carberry.
Acoustic Guitars: J. Duffy & B. Doyle.
The Line (Copyright Control). Lead Vocals/Acoustic
Guitar: J. Duffy. Accordion: B. Doyle. Uilleann Pipes/Whistle: N. Carberry.
Banjo: J. Flanagan
The Irishman in Chinatown (Luka Bloom - Warner Chappell
Music) Lead Vocals/Acoustic Guitar: M. Banahan. Chinese Woman: Noh Lig
Hu.
Rose in the Heather Set: Rose in the Heather / Tripping
up the Stairs / Paddy Clancy's (Trad. Arrangement: M. Banahan, B. Doyle,
J. Duffy, N. Carberry, J. Flanagan - Asdee Music). Accordion: B. Doyle.
Banjo: J Flanagan. Uilleann Pipes: N. Carberry. Bodhran: M. Banahan. Acoustic
Guitar J. Duffy.
Inishbofin: (Michael Banahan - Asdee Music) Lead
Vocal: M. Banahan. Acoustic Guitar: J. Duffy. Banjo: J Flanagan.
Ashokan Farewell: (Jay Ungar - Warner Chappell Music)
Banjo: J Flanagan. Uilleann Pipes: N. Carberry. Acoustic Guitar: J. Duffy.
Accordion: B. Doyle. "The Spell of the Yukon" by Robert Service
- Earnest Benn Ltd Publishing. Narration: J. Flanagan.
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Stormy
Brew - Sleeve Notes
Recorded at: Reel World Studios,
Cahanagh, Longford.
Engineered by: Paul Gurney
Produced by: Charlie McGettigan
Mixed by: Charlie McGettigan, and Paul
Gurney
Mastered by: Robyn Robins at Mid Atlantic
Digital,Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Photography by: Dave Cullen
Design: Zachary Harper
Rig the Jig - The Band
Michael Banahan: Vocals,
Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bodhran
Noel Carberry: Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle,Low
Whistle, Bodhran, Backing Vocals
Brendan Doyle: Button Accordion
Johnnie Duffy: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic
Guitar, Tenor Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin
Jimmy Flanagan: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Banjo,
Acoustic Guitar
Guest Musicians
Eddie Lee: Upright Bass
Paul Gurney; Keyboards.
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