PASSING THROUGH	TRACKS
Also available from	1. Frieze Britches (jigs)   2. Barley and Grape Rag   3. Passing Through   4. I Still Miss Someone   5. Goldsmith's Lament (Slow Air)   6. City of New Orleans   7. Over The Moor (Reels)   8. My Home by Lough Ree   9. The Pigeon on the Gate (Reels)   10. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness   11. Kathleen Hehir's (Jigs)   12. The Liftin' of the Latch   13. The Clumsy Lover (Slow Air/Jig/Reel)   14. Raglan Road
STORMY BREW	TRACKS
Also available from	1. Take Her In Your Arms 2. Connaught Combination (Jigs)   3. Hard Times 4. Southern Surprise (Slides / Reel)   5. Storms On The Ocean   6. Slow Air   7. McComiskey’s Set (Reels) 8. The Errant Apprentice   9. Steady Does It (Reels)   10. The Groves Of Kilteevan   11. Morning Dew Set (Reel / Jig)   12. Goin’ The Wrong Direction 13. Christmas Eve Set (Reels) 14. McKeown And I
ONE NIGHT IN HARLOW'S	TRACKS
	1. Say You Love Me 2. Reels - The Mount Cisco Set   3. Paradise 4. Slow Reels   5. Jigs - The Kesh Set   6. Erris 7. Reels - The Kerrigan Set   8. Half An Inch Of Water And You Think You're Gonna Drown   9. Mr. Connaughton 10. Reels - The Congress Set 11. Wonderful Feeling   12. Carolina Star 13. Slow Air & Reel   14. The Banks Of The Lee
FINDING THE GOLD	TRACKS
	1. Man of the House Set   2. Green Valley 3. Roseland Set   4. Please Don't Bury Me 5. Banjo Hornpipes 6. Mexican Home   7. Supermarket Wine   8. Uilleann Pipes Solo   9. The Line 10. The Irishman in Chinatown 11. Rose in the Heather Set 12. Inishbofin   13. Ashokan Farewell

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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