The Best of Irish Piping

The Best of Irish Piping is a two CD boxset incorporating The Pure Drop and The Fox Chase albums by Seamus Ennis. Liam O'Flynn wrote the sleevenotes.

The Best of Irish Piping
Compilation album by Seamus Ennis
Released	1974
Recorded	Dublin
Genre	Celtic
Label	Tara Music label
Producer	Seamus Ennis

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Tracks

The Pure Drop

The Fox Chase

1) Two Reels : The Pure Drop; The Flax in Bloom 2) Slow Air : The Fairy Boy 3) Hornpipes : The Groves Hornpipe; Dwyer's Hornpipe 4) March : O'Sullivan the Great 5) Double Jigs : When Sick, Is it Tea You Want?, The Humours of Drinagh 6) Slow Air and Slip-Jig : By the River of Gems; The Rocky Road to Dublin 7) Two Single Jigs : Ask My Father; Pat Ward's Jig 8) Slow Air : Valencia Harbour 9) Hornpipes : The Standing Abbey; The Stack of Barley 10) Two Reels : The Leitrim Thrush; Miss Johnson 11) March : The Return From Fingal 12) Two Single Jigs : Chase Me, Charlie; The Dingle Regatta 13) Slow Air : White Connor's Daughter, Nora 14) Two Double Jigs : Slieve Russell; Sixpenny Money 15) Three Reels : Stay for Another While; I Have No Money, The Cushogue 16) Slow Air : The Brown Thorn

1) Two Reels : Music at the Gate; The Pigeon on the Gate 2) Two double Jigs : The Blooming Meadows; Kitty's Rambles 3) Slow Air : Ned of the Hill 4) Two single Jigs : Smash the Windows; The Dark Girl in Blue 5) Two Hornpipes : The Derry Hornpipe; The Cuckoo's Nest 6) Song-tune : The Trip We Took Over the Mountain 7) Three Reels : The Merry Sisters; Music in the Forge; Castle Kelly 8) Hornpipe : Johnny Cope 9) Two Reels : The Rainy day; A Fair Wind 10) Descriptive Piping Piece : The Fox Chase 11) Two Reels : The Braes of Busby; Colonel Fraze 12) Slip-jig : The Kid On The Mountain

Musicians

• Seamus Ennis - uilleann pipes

References

Record Label Catalogue 2009 Album Sleevenotes