Annotation:Paddy Cronin's Slide

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PADDY CRONIN’S [3]. AKA and see "Across the Road," “O'Keeffe's Slide (2).” Irish, Slide (12/8 time). Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. County Kerry fiddler Paddy Cronin (a long-time resident of Boston, Mass., before he returned to Ireland) played the tune during a radio broadcast in 1949, recorded by RTE. He called the tune "Across the Road" on the broadcast, but his name has become associated with the tune. Across the Road

Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh Luachra region) [Moylan].

Printed sources: Moylan (Johnny O’Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 75, p. 43.

Recorded sources: Ossian OSS CD 130, Sliabh Notes – “Along Blackwater’s Banks” (2002). Topic 12T357, Johnny O’Leary - “Music for the Set” (1977. Appears as “O’Keeffe’s”).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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