Annotation:Tar Road to Sligo

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TAR ROAD TO SLIGO (An Bóthar Mór go Sligeach). AKA and see “Coleman's Jig (4),” “Coach Road to Sligo (2) (The)," "High Road to Sligo." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The melody was first recorded in New York in 1927 by fiddler Michael Coleman, originally from County Sligo, as part of his “Tobin’s Fancy” medley. “Races at Carrick (The)” is a related tune in the first strain. "Tar Road to Sligo" has also been recorded under other titles as well, "Fasten the Leg in Her," "Humors of Whiskey"[1] "Jackson's Jig"[2] and "Lambert's," but these also (and usually) refer to other tunes and are transient or have not become generally associated with the tune. The Bothy Band's influential 1975 recording fixed the title "Tar Road to Sligo" for subsequent musicians.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - a recording of Michael Coleman [Miller & Perron].

Printed sources : - Carlin (Master Collection of Dance Music for the Violin), 1984; No. 256, p. 147. Cranford (Jerry Holland’s Collection), 1995; No. 239, p. 69. Mallinson (100 Essential), 1995; No. 91, p. 39. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music vol. 2), 1977; No. 43 (appears as “Coleman Jig”). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 37. Peoples (Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1986; No 8. Prior (Fionn Seisiún 2), 2003; p. 15. Songer & Curley (Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 201.

Recorded sources : - Ace of Hearts AH 95, "Irish Dance Party." Green Linnet SIF 3011, “The Bothy Band, 1975.” RC2000, George Wilson – “The Royal Circus” (2000).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [3]

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  1. ↑ Accordion player Peter J. Conlon recorded the jig in 1917 as "The Humors of the Whiskey."
  2. ↑ "Jackson's" is the name fiddler Michael Coleman used on his 1924 recording for a medley of this jig and "Humors of Kesh".
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