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    I'm looking for recordings to purchase of the reel titled the Wind That Shakes the Barley.
    When I search digital music sources a song by the same name written in the mid 1800s by Robert Dwyer Joyce comes up (movie by the same title), but cannot find the reel titled the Wind That Shakes the Barley. Can you help?

    https://www.celticscores.com/file/16...the_Barley.pdf



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    Solas, Tony Elman, The Chieftains, Steve Kaufman have versions. Solas' version is different.
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    Most of the recordings listed here will feature the reel, not the song...

    https://thesession.org/tunes/116/recordings

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    Here is a mando lesson from Barron......

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyuBlB9cHuU
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    You can purchase the Foinn Seisiún recordings for a version:



    or it appears on Chieftains 8 by the Chieftains:



    Aoife Granville does a version on her "Sáimhín Só" album:



    or the great Micho Russell from "Rarities and Old Favourites 1949-1993":



    Gerry O'Connor from his "Time to Time" album:

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    John McCutcheon CD by the same title Wind That Shakes The Barley. A master of the hammer dulcimer and this CD has some great tunes tunes and musicians. Not sure of availability but well worth looking for. If it was vinyl I'd have worn it out along time ago.

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    I believe its avail in .tef with viewer from mandozine.com if it still exists.

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    Love that John McCutcheon Album, "if I was a FeatherBed" needs more air time
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    If you search YouTube using " 'Wind That Shakes The Barley' fiddle tune" as your search term, you'll find many renditions of the tune, including this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNDk...rSunnysugiyama

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    Yes that entire CD was real eye opener. Morpeth Rant, Staten Island Hornpipe, and so many others.
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    Thank you! This is a very nice recording.

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    Tnak you Bob, I'll search for this CD.

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    Jill, I sure appreciate these links. Thank you!

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    Holy smokes Aidan, this is a great reference. Thank you.

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    Charles, this one will really help me. Thanks.

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    By the way Ranold. I like the quote from Johnson's Mom.

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    I love Gerry O'Connor's version on Time After Time (as the YouTube llnk above). That whole album is great.

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    A nice selection (especially Micho!) but the Aoife Granville link goes back to the Chieftains.

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    Ah, well spotted whistler! How did I not notice that - bah! Here's the Aoife link now:


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    The flax in bloom, followed by Wind that shakes the barley.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tmurphy View Post
    Holy smokes Aidan, this is a great reference.
    If you're referring to The Session website - yes, it's excellent. Only thing I'd mention, is be careful of the sheet music settings you find there, because they're contributed by site users and some of them are quite 'artistic' - the version of the tune played in the contributor's home area, or as they remember it. Very often, but not always, the first sheet music setting you see (W.t.S.t.B has 17 of them...) is one of the most commonly played.

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    Good point, Max, that the newcomer to this music should probably tread a tad carefully when checking out settings at The Session. Some are settings which are instrument-specific, some are idiosyncratic versions peculiar to a particular player or their particular session or learned from an idiosyncratic player. And some are just plain wrong - the author hasn't taken the time to proof-read their submission prior to committing it to the database (or hasn't used a facility like mandolintab.net's ABC converter to check out the midi file; it's amazing how many ABC files I've written, thinking I've got them spot on and then had to tweak when I played back the resulting midi... should have gone to Specsavers!).

    That said, for me one of the pleasures of the tune database is the number and variety of settings - some of which shed a new light on a particular tune and promote it from the "I don't think I'll bother" pile to the "I might just give this a go" pile. And as a frequent visitor to the site, there are a number of regular contributors whose submissions I tend to follow. I'm thinking in particular of JACKB for example whose simple and elegant pipe-friendly settings are usually very high quality and often "make sense" of previous hard to follow transcriptions. (Although in JACKB's case I occasionally have to convert mentally some of his piping triplets into more mando-friendly phrases before I can get his setting up to speed.) I'm also thinking of NfldWhistler whose Newfoundland versions of tunes are always worth a crack and of course session stalwarts such as The Phantom Button and CreadurMawnOrganig whose settings are always worth a gander.

    It's one of the enduring and alluring features of this music that there isn't one correct setting for a tune. But there are an infinite number of wrong settings... and a lot of settings which straddle the border.

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    Adian's comments about the poor quality of public resources is spot on. It is nothing new. One is forced to seek out reliable sources.

    For many years my method in learning a new tune is to compare at least three versions from three reliable sources. Then I work out my version. Now this can be an issue as well, because the only person happy with the version is one's self.

    Another issue is that some very active and productive people have contributed greatly to the confusion. Sigh... what a mess.
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    I agree about the non-uniformity of notated tunes in the public domain, but such is the nature of folk or public domain music ( and both its curse and blessing). Its not all that different from Woody Guthrie borrowing a phrase from one folk song and using it another, or Cisco Houston or Leadbelly doing very different versions of the Midnight Special.
    You just have to find the one you like, even if its not the most popular version.
    Remember the story of how someone saw 7 blackbirds flying and 3 towns over the story morphed to 6 white birds with 1 blackbird, that is the evolution of folk music.
    This is also true ( although somewhat less so) for American Standard Jazz music.
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    I recently saw an interview with Frankie Gavin the fiddle player on Sé Mo Laoch (Available on Irish TV channel TG4 player) and in it Frankie says that ALL reels should be played fast and playing them slow is "stupid" I'm fairly shure he used this word! Whereas I once asked Martin Hayes about why he played Paddy Fahy's reel at the speed he does on The Lonesome Touch (fairly easy going pace) and he said it just felt right at that speed! I think regional varieties and the tastes of the artist are reflected in tunes on the session too! At sessions I think I play hornpipes faster than when for dancers. and often play the with more ornamentation when playing in say a 3 piece than in a larger session.

    Sorry if this is drifting from the original question, just some observations that came to mind while reading the comments.

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