Yeah, it's definitely interesting, and it's got a lot of tunes in it (around 80?) that it's safe to say you won't know - at least not in the unusual way they're arranged in this book.

On the website, if you click 'Samples' you'll be able to see the tab he gives for Paddy on the Turnpike, Fischer's Hornpipe, Betsy Likens, Loch Lomond Hornpipe, Frypan Hornpipe, and Frost And Snow.

I'd love to know whether I'm right in thinking these are highly unusual, perhaps even 'spurious' (from an 'authenticity' point of view, that is) arrangements. I don't mind, because I'm enjoying playing these tunes. But I'd just like to know how much I'm playing 'Kyle Datesman' music.


For the record, these are the tunes the book provides tab for.

8th of January ; Backstep Cindy ; Balley Desmond Polka ; Barlow Knife ; Betsy Likens ; Bill Cheatam ; Billy in the Lowground ; Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (1) ; Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (2) ; Bonaparte's Retreat ; Caledonia ; Chinkapion Pie ; Cold Frosty Morning ; Cotton Eyed Joe ; Cumberland Gap ; Dance All Night ; Devilish Mary ; Ducks on the Mill Pond ; Ducks on the Pond ; Ebenezer ; Faust Knight ; Fiddler's Dram ; Fischer's Hornpipe ; Forked Deer ; Fort Smith ; Fortune ; Frost and Snow ; Frypan Hornpipe ; Green Willis ; Hawks and Eagles ; Highway to Limerick ; Ida Red ; Jay Bird ; Jenny Picking Cockles ; Jimmy Sutton/Old Jim Sutton ; John Lover's Gone ; Johnson's Boys ; Katy Hill ; Kitchen Girl ; Lady Montgomery ; Last of the Callahan ; Lazy Farmer ; Leather Britches ; Liberty ; Little Widow ; Loch Lomand Hornpipe ; Miller's Reel ; Miss McLeod's Reel ; Money Musk ; Morpath's Rant ; Mountain Goat Hornpipe ; Nancy Ann ; Nancy Rowland ; Old Jawbone ; Old Molly Hare ; Paddy on the Turnpike ; Pocono Hornpipe ; Pretty Little Pink ; Quincy Dillon's High C ; Rambler's Hornpipe ; Red Fox ; Red Rocking Chair ; Red Winged Blackbird ; Sail Away Ladies ; Salt Creek ; Shaving a Dead Reaujaques ; Shooting Creek ; Soldier's Joy ; Spirits of the Morning ; St. Anne's Reel ; Staten Island Hornpipe ; Stife's Hornpipe ; Tater Patch ; Taylor's Twist ; Temperance Reel ; The Linnett ; The Staghorn ; Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail ; Untitled Hornpipe ; Waterloo Hornpipe ; West Folk Girls ; Wild Horse at Stoney Point ; Wind that Shakes the Barley