Hi Claire, the Irish often give different names to these tunes . The colliers reel sounds very similar to my love is in America, and Gormans reel seems to be a different tune to the Michael Coleman named tune, beg your pardon he calls it Lord Gordon's reel, and the bothy band call it something else of which I have played both tunes. Anyway brilliant playing , playing especially reels is very tricky on your own to keep bouncing rhythm that people want to dance. It all takes a lot of practice and session work.
My Love in American and Colliers are so incredibly similar, it's harder to find the differences sometimes...Both great tunes though. Lord Gordons is a whole different tune all together, I think Michael Coleman might be playing the 4 (5?) part reel version -- also played on Pat Mangan Album (ruclips.net/video/nuScUc25lso/видео.html). The Bothy Band Version seems to be quite different as well! It's a Jig -- also found on these recordings as well: www.irishtune.info/tune/1278/
Lovely!
Hi Claire, the Irish often give different names to these tunes . The colliers reel sounds very similar to my love is in America, and Gormans reel seems to be a different tune to the Michael Coleman named tune, beg your pardon he calls it Lord Gordon's reel, and the bothy band call it something else of which I have played both tunes. Anyway brilliant playing , playing especially reels is very tricky on your own to keep bouncing rhythm that people want to dance. It all takes a lot of practice and session work.
My Love in American and Colliers are so incredibly similar, it's harder to find the differences sometimes...Both great tunes though. Lord Gordons is a whole different tune all together, I think Michael Coleman might be playing the 4 (5?) part reel version -- also played on Pat Mangan Album (ruclips.net/video/nuScUc25lso/видео.html). The Bothy Band Version seems to be quite different as well! It's a Jig -- also found on these recordings as well: www.irishtune.info/tune/1278/
Hup mighty playing