Dreaming Up the Tunes

Johnny Og is Johnny's senior's son and plays the slightly larger two-row button accordion with a beautiful fluent, light touch. The great Joe Burke was one of his early influences. Virtuoso banjo player Brian McGrath, one of the founders of Four Men and A Dog, currently plays in Sean Keane's Band and At The Racket. He and Johnny Og have played together for years; there's both tightness and an easy give and take in their duo playing. Distinguished accompanists here too, James Blennerhasset on cello and double bass, Eugene Kelly and Peter O'Hanlon on guitars and McGrath on piano. The title is apt. Several of the tunes are recent compositions by, among others, Charlie Lennon and Johnny Og himself, whose fine, intricate tunes include the lovely set of jigs Poirt Inis Bearachain (also featured on his father's CD) and named after the now uninhabited Island off the Connemara coast, where Johnny Connolly Snr was born.

1: Gan Ainm/Doberman's Wallet
2: Paddy Ryan's Dream/Jimmy Batty's
3: Mick O'Connor's Reel
4: The Happy Hornpipe/The Souvenir
5: The Inis Bearachain Jigs
6: Ril Johnny Phadraig Pheter/Ril Joe Mhaire Mhicilin
7: Christmas in Spiddal/Twelve to the Bar
8: The Carraroe Jig/Homage to Rooney
9: Mountian Dew/Loughrea Reel
10: Dillon's/Marion Egan's
11: Bean Phaidin/Seanambach Tube Station
12: Michael Coleman's/Flanagan Meets O'Hanlon Barndances

Number of Discs: 1

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