Recorded and produced by Bill Leader;
Photographs by Rod Stradling;
Sleeve design by John Hopkinson

Musicians

Séamus Ennis: uilleann pipes [1-4, 8-9], whistle [6-7], vocals [5]

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Pinch of Snuff
2. The Fairie’s Hornpipe
3. The Gold Ring
4. The Fairy Straying

Side 2

5. The False Hearted Lover (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) song
6. Ditherum Doodah
7. The Bird’s Chorus
8. The Lark in the Morning
9. The Lark’s March

Recorded at Livinston Studios, Barnet, in 1974;
Produced by Tony Engle;
Notes by Séamus Ennis;
Sleeve design by Tony Engle;
Front cover photograph by Rod Stradling

Musicians

Séamus Ennis: uilleann pipes, whistle

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Wandering Minstrel / Jackson’s Morning Brush double jigs (5.35)
2. The Boys of Bluehill / Dunphy’s Hornpipe hornpipes (4.12)
3. The Glen-Nephin Cuckoo / The Little Fair Cannavans slow air and slip jig (4.34)
4. The Frieze Britches double jig (6.40)
5. The Flags of Dublin / The Wind that Shakes the Barley reels (3.52)

Side 2

6. The Little Stack of Barley / Cronin’s Horpipe hornpipes (4.10)
7. The New Demesne reel (1.40)
8. The Blackbird slow air and set dance (4.20)
9. Gillan’s Apples / The Walls of Liscarroll / The Stone in the Field double jigs (4.20)
10. Molly O’Malone slow air (2.42)
11. Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel reel (4.37)
12. Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part double jig (2.30)

A definitive survey of the uilleann pipe playing of Séamus Ennis, from his earliest recordings to the present eay, including selections on whistle and fiddle. This compilations contains tracks from 78rpm records, private records and early tape and wire recordings.

Produced and recorded by Patrick Sky;
Executive producer: Lisa Null;
Engineered by Pitt Kinsolving and Patrick Sky;
Cover illustration by Joseph Szarek

Musicians

Séamus Ennis: uilleann pipes, whistle, fiddle

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Merry Blacksmith / The Rainy Day / The Silver Spear (3.10)
2. First You Must Learn the Grip (1.05)
3. The Bucks of Oranmore (2.55)
4. The Bucks of Oranmore / The Sligo Maid’s Lament (4.00)
5. The Praties are Dug and the Frost Is All Over (1.55)
6. The Fox Chase (8.03)

Side 2

7. If All the Young Maidens Were Blackbirds and Thrushes (1.24)
8. The Copperplate Reel (1.25)
9. The Silver Spear / The Dublin Reel / Miss Monahan (4.18)
10. Salamanca / Duke Gordon (4.05)
11. Don Niperi Septo (7.28)

Side 3

12. Donegal Reel (3.15)
13. Paudeen O’Rafferty / The Friar’s Jig (3.12)
14. Speed the Plough / The Merry Blacksmith / The Forge Music (3.55)
15. The Lark’s March (3.25)
16. Sixpenny Money / When the Cock Crows It Is Day (2.30)

Side 4

17. Piper of the Embers / Down the Back Lane / Sixpenny Money / Paudeen O’Rafferty (3.45)
18. I’ll Mend Your Pots and Kettles O (2.10)
19. The Broken Pledge (2.10)
20. Paddy Killoran’s Reel (1.15)
21. Gentle Philip Fahey (6.42)

Tracks 5-6, 16-17, 20 collected by George and Jean Ritchie Pickow