Annotation:Jack Coughlan's
Tune properties and standard notation
JACK COUGHLAN'S (REEL). AKA - "Jack Coughlan's Fancy," "Kevin Crawford's." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Jack Coughlan, who composed the tune, was a flute player from Ballinakill, the same part of County Galway as Black's source, Mike Rafferty. Coughlan was a member of the 'new' Ballinakill Ceilí Band in the 1940's, according to Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (1999), made up of the 'next' generation of traditional musicians, including flute and time whistle player Eddie Moloney, Aggie Whyte, Jack Coughlan and Kevin Moloney.
Source for notated version: Bill Black learned this tune at Mike Rafferty's retirement party in May 1989; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].
Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 67, p. 35. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 54, p. 17.
Recorded sources: Celtic Crossings CD0299-02, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin & Patrick Ourceau - "Tracin" (1999. Learned from a tape of flute player Eddie Moloney). Green Linnet SIF 1045, Joe Burke - "Tailor's Choice." "Joe and the Gabe." Kells KM 9509, Mike and Mary Rafferty - "The Dangerous Reel" (1996).