Oyster Wives Rant: A Year of Historic Tunes

by Jeremy Kingsbury

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PipingJim I'd ignorantly assumed I had a handle on what, "pipemusic," was. Jeremy showed me, and efficiently so, that there's a lot more out there. Favorite track: Stool of Repentence.

Rusty Gully Kingsbury does great work here, truly breathing new life into old, neglected tunes.

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1.	Oyster Wives Rant 00:31	info	buy track
2.	Jack Lattin 03:13	info	buy track
3.	My Aind Kind Deary 01:22	info	buy track
4.	Humours of Ardmore 01:45	info	buy track
5.	A Rock and a Wi Pickle Tow 01:55	info	buy track
6.	Drummond Castle 00:38	info	buy track
7.	Blue Britches & Oyster Wives Rant 01:51	info	buy track
8.	Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine 01:23	info	buy track
9.	Wha Saw the Forty Twa & Wha’ Widna Fecht 02:26	info	buy track
10.	Love and a Pipe (duet with Ryan Behnke) 01:43	info	buy track
11.	The Fairies Revels & Lovesick Polly 02:57	info	buy track
12.	Cuzle Together 01:40	info	buy track
13.	The Mill Mill O 02:01	info	buy track
14.	Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself 02:07	info	buy track
15.	Celtic Society Quickstep 01:28	info	buy track
16.	Darby Carey 01:28	info	buy track
17.	John O’Reily the Active 01:58	info	buy track
18.	The Grinder, I hae a Wife o my Ain, Brose and Butter, an Irish Jig 02:20	info	buy track
19.	Mary Scott 01:41	info	buy track
20.	Miss Blair's Reel 01:43	info	buy track
21.	Saw Ye the Carle of Late 01:20	info	buy track
22.	The Carle He Came O'er the Craft 01:30	info	buy track
23.	Aberdeen or Saint Paul's Hymn 01:06	info	buy track
24.	Carey Baxter's Three Waves 02:15	info	buy track
25.	The Black Joke with Variations 01:49	info	buy track
26.	Loch Ness 01:13	info	buy track
27.	When The King Enjoys His Own Again 01:13	info	buy track
28.	The Grant's Rant 01:10	info	buy track
29.	Over the Water to Charlie 01:42	info	buy track
30.	Go To Berwick Johnny 01:14	info	buy track
31.	Jenny Nettles 01:07	info	buy track
32.	Robbin Power's Fancy 01:33	info	buy track
33.	Crosswell of Edinburgh & Watermen's Rant 02:26	info	buy track
34.	She Rose and Let Me In 03:32	info	buy track
35.	Stool of Repentence 03:54	info	buy track
36.	Tweed Side (Duet with Ryan Kirk) 02:02	info	buy track
37.	Improvisation in St. Clement's Church on the Isle of Harris 02:06	info	buy track

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In 2020 I committed to play a tune a day in order to get more session tunes under my belt. When sessions quit happening those daily tunes began reflecting my love of eighteenth and nineteenth century tunes, and I wound up relaunching Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast ( www.wetootwaag.com ). This album is many of my favorites for the 2020 season of the podcast and my year of playing tunes. These are the recordings I used for the podcast, therefore they are mostly single tunes played from the music rather than sets that have been memorized and exhaustively rehearsed. Those caveats aside, there is some incredible music I was able to find by digging through old sources. For the last several episodes I used James Aird’s setting for Oyster Wives’ Rant (Track 1) as my introduction theme song for the Podcast, and therefore it is the title to the album. Music and research was a blessed distraction, thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy it! You can listen to all of these tunes for free by listening to Season 4 of the Podcast. Many episodes feature multiple settings of the different tunes that are selected here as well as links to Archival collections if you want the sheet music.
When you buy and download the album the booklet will be included in the download folder, to access the booklet without downloading go here: tinyurl.com/oysterwivesrant

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released February 5, 2021

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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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