Here are some of my notes from different sources. Don't have time to sort through now.
CRUEL WILLIE. Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major. DDAD tuning. Learned from Arthur Smith (Tenn.) by Nashville session fiddler Howdy Forrester, to whom it is sometimes attributed. It was also recorded by the Bing Brothers, Howdy Forrester and Junior Daugherty. Briar 4204, Earl Collins - "That's Earl" (1975). Rounder SS-0145, J.P. Fraley (Rush, Ky.) - "Traditional Music on Rounder: A Sampler" (1981. The tune was learned by Fraley from Howdy Forrester).
An instrumental version can be found on a 1995 Rounder CD called, Down the Road to Home, by Connie & Babe and the Backwoods Boys. The beginning march in this set of tunes, Archibald Campbell of Kilberry, is written by the famous John MacColl. John MacColl was a very prolific composer, and his tunes are very much in the forefront of competitive piping today. This is one of his "smaller" tunes, and can be found in Pipe Major William Ross's Book IV. The Pipe Major William Ross in question here is late of the Scots Guards, and produced five of his own collections. The Strathspey King was written by George S. MacLennan for J. S. Skinner, in whose collections it can be found.
The Wagtail was written by our own John Martin, and Old Willie Duncan is another of our many choices from Ross's Collection of 1886. Cuir Mi Anns an Ciste Mhor was acquired by Duncan from his friend Alan Henderson at a late night session. The title, which translates from the Gaelic as "Put Me in the Great Chest", refers to the story of a well know composer's choice, made on his deathbed, to be buried wherever some item that he threw landed, which unfortunately ended up being on top of the wardrobe. This anecdote was much repeated about the highlands and in fact there are several tunes and songs, all different but with the same title, referring to this tale. This is not at all uncommon, in keeping with the highland tradition of circulating themes and stories of particular interest, about which many tunes and songs with the same or similar titles were written.
CONNIE AND BABE AND THE BACKWOODS BOYS/Cruel Willie/Down the Road to Home/ROUNDER "Cruel Willie" is an instrumental by Connie and Babe featuring Red Roberts. It is somewhat melancholy. They utilize the fiddles in such a way that it almost reminds you of the Scottish bagpipe sound. You are almost transported to the Highlands of Scotland while listening to this.