Rowly Powly, by Jeremy Kingsbury

Rowly Powly

by Jeremy Kingsbury

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PipingJim Even after a half dozen full rotations I have yet to feel moved to skip ahead through any track. Every single one is excellent, there's no filler here, just pure authentic golden music throughout. I've never not loved a Wetootwaag album in the past, but this one stands out, to me, even among the others as a really stellar example of lively fingers, rich drones, lovely arrangements, and emotive expression. Jeremy's passion for this music and his connection with his instruments are on full display Favorite track: St. Mary's Hornpipe, Jackson's Rowly Powly.

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This album includes 18 tracks of Scottish, Irish and English bagpipe tunes and twelve pages of liner notes with links to the archival sources I used to make the sets and an additional 37 page tunebook, complete with my Rowly Powly recipe.

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1.	St. Mary's Hornpipe, Jackson's Rowly Powly 02:32	info	buy track
2.	Will You Take a Wife Donald, Dark Girl of the Sheep, Tail Toddle, Keep the Country Bonny Lassie, Earl Marischall, Old Rusty Gun 03:12	info	buy track
3.	Milliner’s House, Siege of Belgrade 03:57	info	buy track
4.	The Black and the Grey 02:52	info	buy track
5.	Kitty O’Hare, The Munster Lassie, Jerry Holland Pipe Jig 04:32	info	buy track
6.	Take Care of My Cap, Merry Thought, Miss Butt’s Favorite 02:31	info	buy track
7.	Cupid's Frolick, Cox's Museum, Naples Dance, the Black Dance, The Island of Love 03:24	info	buy track
8.	Adieu Adieu Thou Faithless World (The Hermit of Kilarney) 05:02	info	buy track
9.	John G. Dally, Mrs. Evelyn Shears 02:38	info	buy track
10.	Dark-eyed one of the Night, Lady Seaforth, Dark Girl of the White Feet, Lady Mary Mackay, Mary Gray, Sweet Molly 02:17	info	buy track
11.	German Waltz, Rogara Duff (The Black Rogue), The Unfortunate Rake, Mrs. Dungannon’s Jigg, The Ladies Lesson 04:50	info	buy track
12.	Strike the Bell, Little Wee Winking Thing 03:59	info	buy track
13.	The Morning Post 00:54	info	buy track
14.	Lady Eliza Callander’s Favourite, Miss Wardlaw’s Reel, Highland Fair, Miss Ann Baines Fancy 03:32	info	buy track
15.	Jack The Sailor, She is the Girl that Can Do it 02:28	info	buy track
16.	Jim Harding's Waltz, Waltzish 03:29	info	buy track
17.	The Nurse’s Song, Bundle and Go, Mr. Mackay’s, The Piper’s Maggot, Woo’ed and Married an’ a, You Silly Fool 03:49	info	buy track
18.	Young Benjie, Boys of Bedlam 08:07	info	buy track

about

Throughout 2022 I found some delightful music that was unfamiliar to me from several eighteenth and nineteenth century sources. This album consists of sets made up of some of my favorite tunes and songs that I played for Season 6 of Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast. www.wetootwaag.com

This album also reflects my growing love of my Jon Swayne Border pipes in G. In preparation for this album I got a Richard Patkós C uilleann chanter for the sake of recording duets. While the G Border pipes and drones are the most common tone on Rowly Powly, there are three tracks of solo Highland piping, three tracks of solo uilleann piping, three tracks featuring whistles as well as two songs and one lone, but glorious William Dixon tune (Black and the Grey) on my Jon Swayne Lowland Chanter in A.

Be sure to see the Liner Notes PDF and Tune book PDF for more information on these tunes.

www.tinyurl.com/rowlypowlylinernotes
www.tinyurl.com/rowlypowlytunebook

On this album I play:
David Boisvert drones and regulators
Koehler & Quinn D uilleann Chanter
Richard Patkós C uilleann chanter
Jon Swayne Border pipes in G and Lowland pipes in A
Kintail Highland pipe drones
1960s Hardie Highland pipe chanter
Denny Hall Scottish small pipes in D
John Walsh Shuttlepipes in A
Chieftain Low D whistle
Thunderbird Low G whistle
Tweaked Freeman Low F whistle
Generation F whistle
Generation Bb whistle
David Boisvert D whistle
My wife’s busted-up childhood folk harp
Vargan and Morchang style jaw harps in A

All tracks recorded and mixed by myself using a Zoom H2n Mic and Audacity.
All tracks recorded and mixed by myself using a Zoom H2n Mic and Audacity.

Special thanks to Iain Gelston, composer of St. Mary’s Hornpipe on track 1.
Thanks to Barry Shears, composer of Jerry Holland Pipe Jig on track 5 and John G. Dally and Mrs. Evelyn Shears on track 9.
Thanks to Dave Rowlands, composer of Jim Harding’s Waltz on track 16.
Thanks to Nicholas Konradsen, composer of Waltzish, also on track 16.

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released August 4, 2023

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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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