NOTE: All tunes on this
recording are transcribed in a new book "The
Music of John Campbell: A Cape Breton
Legacy" compiled
by George Ruckart This long play CD includes
all of John's classic 1976 Rounder label CD plus another 8
tracks selected from John's independent LP releases made
during the '80s. The music is powerfully
played and the groupings are traditional in both style and
content. A number of Campbell originals are included - all
blend seamlessly with the older music. Harbourview
(E minor jig by John Campbell) - mp3 Compliments
to Margaret
MacPhee
(by John Campbell) - reel - mp3 Sheriff
Muldoon -
G jig - mp3 Phones
Lodge - A
strathspey - mp3 I'll
go nae Mair to Yon
Toun - G
reel (mp3) Niel
Gow's Fiddle (Nathaniel Gow) / Compliments to My
Wife Bea
(by John Campbell) D strathspeys
mp3 John
Campbell Jr's
Reel
(by John Campbell) - 4 part A reel -
mp3
Notation for 25 tunes (including the tunes
above) supplied as a single John Campbell
ABC
file
The selections:
From Cape Breton Violin
Music,
Rounder 7003 (complete):
(with Doug MacPhee, piano)
1. Glasgow Caledonian Strathspey and Reel Society (Angus Fichet)*, Mrs. Greig's--strathspeys; Pottinger's (Tom Anderson), A Winston Tune in F, Inverness Lasses (Simon Fraser)--reels2. The Miller O' Drone (Nathaniel Gow); Pretty Marion--strathspeys; Cape Breton Rigs** , Dan J. Campbell's Reel (John Campbell, SOCAN)--reels
3. A Mabou Strathspey on D--strathspey; Donald MacGugan's Rant, Loch Madey, Lady Harriet's--reels
4. Wilfred's Fiddle Jig (Dan R. MacDonald, SOCAN), The Harbourview Jig (John Campbell, SOCAN)
5. Miss Stewart (William Marshall), The Duke of Gordon's Birthday (William Marshall)--strathspeys; Lord Seaforth, The Primrose Lass--reels
6. Highland Dress and Armour (Simon Fraser), Rothiemurchus Rant-- strathspeys; The Fife Hunt (William Gow), The Tin Wedding--reels
7. Cooley's, Sweet Molly, Glenora (John Campbell, SOCAN)--reels
8. The Honorable Miss Elspeth Campbell (T. Douglas)--pipe march; The Golden Anniversary Strathspey (John Campbell, SOCAN); MacLain of Loch Buie, The Yetts of Muckart (James Stewart Robertson) --reels
9. Sheriff Muldoon, Maid on Green, Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part--jigs
10. Nathaniel Gow (Duncan MacIntyre), Mrs. Henry Lumsden of Tillwhilly's (William Marshall)--strathspeys; Miss Watt, Whiddon's Hornpipe--reels
11. The Haughs of Cromdale--strathspey; Sandy MacIntyre's Trip to Boston (John Campbell, SOCAN), Carleen's (John Campbell, SOCAN)--reels
12. Allowa Kirk (Joseph Lowe), Traditional Strathspey in G--strathspeys; Brendan's (John Campbell, SOCAN), West Mabou--reels
From Heritage Remembered,
JC-123:
(with Doug MacPhee, piano)
13. Sir Harry's Welcome Home (Peter Hardie), Stumpie--strathspeys; I'll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town, The Night We Had the Goats--reels14. O'er the Muir, Amang the Heather--air with variations, Traditional Strathspey from Duncan MacQuarrie, Traditional Strathspey from Dan J. Campbell--strathspeys; Whycocomagh Bay (Gordon MacQuarrie), Wedderburn House (Abraham McIntosh)-- reels
From Cape Breton Violin, JC-
124:
(with Doug MacPhee, piano;
Edmond Boudreau, bass)
15. Neil Gow's Fiddle (Nathaniel Gow), Compliments to My Wife Bea (John Campbell, SOCAN)-- strathspeys; Compliments to Margaret MacPhee (John Campbell, SOCAN), The Snappy (John Campbell, SOCAN)--reels
From The Sound of Cape
Breton, JC-125:
with Doug MacPhee, piano
Edmond Boudreau, guitar
16. Silver Star Hornpipe, The Gerard Heintzman (Joey Beaton, SOCAN), Walker Street--reels17. New Waterford Coal Mines-- strathspey; A Dan J. Campbell Specialty, John Campbell, Jr. (John Campbell, SOCAN)--reels
18. The Shetland Fiddlers Society (Ronald Cooper)--strathspey; Evening Tide, Miss Susan Cooper (Ronald Cooper) -- reels
From The Gathering of the Clans, JC-127:
(with Margaret Campbell, piano)
19. The Stage Hornpipe, Compliments to my Mother (John Campbell, SOCAN); Cutty Sark, The Four Hand Reel20. Phone's Lodge Strathspey; Three Traditional Reels, The Campbell Brothers
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