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Kissing and Flirting, Kissing and Drinking & The Rakes of Westmeath

from Bannocks of Barley Meal by Jeremy Kingsbury

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“Kissing and Drinking” and “Kissing and Flirting” are clearly the same tune, to which William Litten was taking slightly different approaches, so I stitched them together, and with the theme it made sense to slap a Rakes tune on the end! These are the only settings from Litten on the album, but I hope to record an album of all Litten tune sets sometime in the next year or so. William Litten was a ship fiddler on the China Fleet in 1800, and his music book is filled with some of the best tunes I’ve ever played. As someone who had to entertain sailors on a incredibly long journey I feel like an album of Litten tunes would make for the best historic “road trip” album around.

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1802: Kissing and Drinking and Kissing and Flirting come from William Litten’s Tunebook:
www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

1840: Rakes of Westmeath, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

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from Bannocks of Barley Meal, 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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