New Eddie Butcher Book

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: MartinRyan
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 06:05 AM

For a useful review on the Musical Traditions site -

Click here

Regards

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: zozimus
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 11:27 AM

Ahh, a decimal pint. Never tried one of them. I'm strictly a Guinness man

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: Reinhard
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 10:19 AM

There's just the decimal point missing. Shipping costs to the U.K. and the rest of Europe are €11.75 or $16.87

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: zozimus
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 09:40 AM

This is a book and CD collection well worth having. However, the price quoted above of $1687 to the U.K is a bit heavy. For that sort of money you could take a trip to the Frank Harte Festival, have a great weekend, and pick up a copy for 36 Euro. You would still have enough change to down a few pints of Guinness, tho' maybe not as many as Darren Clarke!

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 07:29 AM

Found the press release PDF, from which I quote the track listing:
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TRACK LISTING OF CDs
with track numbers, song titles & song numbers
All tracks, except track 12 of disc 1, are from the same recordings as those used for the transcriptions in the book.
Disc 1
1 Nancy's whiskey • 27
2 Green grows the laurel & so falls the dew • 43
3 Dandy Mick McCloskey • 31
4 My son in America • 59
5 The green veil • 29
6 The flower of Corby mill • 2
7 The smuggler • 10
8 The hiring day • 17
9 John Gaynor • 1
10 Glenshee • 35
11 The lowlands low • 52
12 Oh, the marriage, the marriage • 46
13 Skewball • 26
14 I'll climb up a high high tree • 39
15 Mary Ackland • 54
16 The Bureau • 20
17 Ann Jane Thornton • 50
18 Sally & Johnny • 40
Disc 2
1 Barbara Allen • 4
2 Our wedding day • 67
3 The maid of Faughanvale • 60
4 I am a youth • 37
5 The Shamrock Shore • 58
6 The new Mallard bar • 16
7 The pisspot • 49
8 It is now for New England • 3
9 Easy-gaan Tom • 30
10 The weary gallows • 55
11 Katey of Ballinamore • 28
12 I wish that the war was o'er • 56
13 The cricket club & ball • 33
14 The walling of the men • 66
15 Come all you fair maids • 5
16 The English harvest • 18
17 The Drogheda festival • 61
18 Down the moor • 34
Disc 3
1 Lanigan's ball • 63
2 Green grows the laurel & so does the rue • 36
3 Baltimore • 57
4 The concrete mile • 19
5 The bonny Irish boy • 42
6 The Longfield bank • 21
7 The brisk young butcher • 44
8 The parochial house • 11
9 In Connaught I was reared • 53
10 The Point fair • 22
11 The Castle maid • 65
12 The jacket so blue • 38
13 Magilligan Gaelic team • 24
14 Johnny & Molly • 41
15 The anglers on the Roe • 25
16 The very first night • 45
17 The burning of Downhill castle • 12
18 Benevenagh surrounded in snow • 13
19 When the storm swept the countryside • 14
20 Boyne water • 32
21 Until the morning • 62
22 The cuckoo's nest • 47
23 The wind & the rain • 48
24 Take hault o that man's hand • 23
25 Drawing buckets of water • 6
26 My aunt Jane • 7
27 My aunt Biddy • 8
28 I have a wee dog • 9
29 The Roe bridge • 64
30 The Myroe floods, vv. 1–3 • 15
31 In the county Exeter, v
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Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 07:18 AM

OY

Make that "Is there a time limit..."

May I have a clue as to where to find the aforementioned press release, please?

Maeve

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 07:17 AM

Dick, I'm interested, of course. I am not able to do anything about it.
Is there a time limet for availability?

Maeve

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 24 Jul 11 - 05:34 AM

"NObody's interested?"
A pity; it's a magnificent piece of work accompanied by 3 CDs worth of some of the best singing these islands have produced.
Would that the UK have give us something a fraction as good as a tribute to our any of our traditional singers.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 Jul 11 - 09:13 PM

NObody's interested? I' a bit surprised.

Subject: New Eddie Butcher Book
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Jul 11 - 04:14 PM

New ITMA Book & CDs


'All the days of his life: Eddie Butcher in his own words: songs, stories and memories of Magilligan, Co Derry' is the latest publication in the Studies in Irish traditional music / Taighde ar cheol dúchais Éireann series from the Irish Traditional Music Archive.

This illustrated record of the life and songs of Eddie Butcher (1900–1980), an outstanding singer from Magilligan, Co Derry, brings back a vanished way of rural life and verbal entertainment. Hugh Shields (1929–2008) was teaching in Coleraine when he first met Eddie in Magilligan in 1953. Their musical friendship continued until Eddie's death. During this period Hugh recorded and published a large repertory of songs from Eddie. The words and notated music of 67 unpublished songs, together with stories and recollections, are given in this book. It is accompanied by three CDs with Eddie's singing of all the songs.

For more detailed information please see the attached press release. The book is available for purchase from the ITMA online shop.


For anyone interested, ITMA gets (ll in US dollars) $51.70+ s&h ($25.27 to US, $1687 to UK)

CAMSCO is offering it for $48.50 (including Media Mail shipping to anywhere in US) or $46 + actual shipping cost to anywhere else.

Please respond quickly if you're interested. THis is a one-shot deal.
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