Bannocks of Barley Meal, by Jeremy Kingsbury

Bannocks of Barley Meal

by Jeremy Kingsbury

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PipingJim This is an excellent collection - all of Jeremy's stuff in the past has been interesting and well done, but I feel like this album takes things to the, "next level," with more sets, more multi-instrument arrangements, and most importantly: more goats. Favorite track: The Night We Had the Goats & The Grey Hag of Raasay.

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1.	Bannocks of Barley Meal, Alasdair of the Stoups, The Big Foot of the Deceitful One 02:07	info	buy track
2.	Kick the World Before You 01:29	info	buy track
3.	Gravel Walk & Highland Man Kissed His Granny Set 03:16	info	buy track
4.	Ravenscroft's Fancy 02:48	info	buy track
5.	Jackson's Humours of Panteen, Jackson's Night Cap & Jackson's Morning Brush 03:10	info	buy track
6.	Ewe With the Crooked Horn & The Little Cascade 02:21	info	buy track
7.	The Fairy Hurlers 01:07	info	buy track
8.	Jackson’s Snack, Jackson’s Dream, Jackson’s Rattle, Jackson Over the Water 05:55	info	buy track
9.	The Mermaid Set 04:08	info	buy track
10.	The Night We Had the Goats & The Grey Hag of Raasay 01:44	info	buy track
11.	The Berlin Waltz, Fitzmaurice's Trip to Roslin Castle, Pay The Reckoning 03:43	info	buy track
12.	Pig Town Fling 01:08	info	buy track
13.	Kissing and Flirting, Kissing and Drinking & The Rakes of Westmeath 02:54	info	buy track
14.	Lament of a Druid 02:45	info	buy track
15.	The Irish Hautboy 01:10	info	buy track
16.	Petticoat Tight, Petticoat Loose, Loose the Belt 03:23	info	buy track
17.	Dribbles of Brandy 02:57	info	buy track
18.	Cave of Enchantment & Mio and the Land of Far Away 02:00	info	buy track
19.	Mrs. Boswell's Jig Set 08:27	info	buy track

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Bannocks of Barley Meal is my “Best of Season Five” Album. This time around, I took many of my favorite tunes from the various historic sources that I played throughout 2021 on Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast and turned them into sets. Nearly all of these are new recordings rather than selections from the podcast.

I put out an album in December (Pay The Pipemaker) which focused heavily on music from the Scottish Borders, which means this album has more Irish influence than Oyster Wives Rant or Pay the Pipemaker. The largest contributor of melodies is Walker Jackson, the eighteenth century gentleman Irish piper. In all, I have seven tunes on this album attributed to him, including five out of his own 1774 collection of tunes. There is a good number of Fitzmaurice, John Murphy and O’Farrell settings as well; these were all Irish pipers publishing and performing in Scotland and England in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

Bannocks of Barley Meal is not exclusively Irish, as Patrick MacDonald’s collection of Highland airs from 1784 was my source for as many melodies as Jackson (mostly thanks to one monster set of his jigs called “The Mermaid Set” on the album), and Eliza Ross’s 1812 manuscript from Raasay is also a recurring source throughout. For more specifics on the origins of the tunes, check the liner notes and PDF booklet included in the download. Where possible I have included links to original versions of the sheet music which inspired this album.

A 34 page tune book was included in the download if you bought and downloaded the album on Bandcamp, otherwise you can view the tune book for Bannocks of Barley Meal here:
tinyurl.com/Bannockstunebook

The liner notes likewise are included with the Bandcamp download, but can be viewed here:
tinyurl.com/Bannockslinernotes

On this album I play:
David Boisvert Drones and Regulators
Koehler & Quinn Uilleann Chanter
A Chieftain Low Whistle
Jon Swayne Lowland pipes in A
Kintail Highland pipe drones
1960s Hardie Highland Pipe Chanter
Denny Hall Scottish Smallpipes in D
My wife’s busted-up childhood folk harp
A Borrowed set of Ray Sloan Smallpipes in Bb

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released June 3, 2022

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Jeremy Kingsbury Grand Forks, North Dakota

I host a bi-weekly bagpipe and history podcast which explores the likely repertoire eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers.
I've played Highland pipes and uilleann pipes since the nineties. My albums are an opportunity for me to keep the tunes and songs I have most enjoyed from creating the podcast.

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