Cooley's Reel
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cooley's Reel", also known as "Fiddler Leahy's Reel", "Joe Cooley's Reel",<br> "Lutrell Pass", "Put the Cake in the Dresser", "Reynold's Reel", "Ríl na Tulai" or<br> "Tulla Reel" is an Irish reel in E Dorian. The parts are played AAB (Carlin, Laufman),<br> AABB (Brody, Mallinson, McNulty, Mulvihill, Songer, Taylor), AA'BB (Miller & Perron,<br> Moylan) or AA'BB' (Alewine, Harker/Rafferty, O'Malley).<br> The tune is associated with the renowned button accordion player Joe Cooley (1924–1973),<br> originally from Peterswell, County Galway, near the northern boundary of the Sliabh<br> Aughty mountians. Cooley spent much of his later life in an itinerant lifestyle in<br> various cities in America and back and forth to Ireland. He was a member for a time<br> of the famous Tulla Céilí Band in Ireland. <br> The tune's origins date to the 1940's when the<br> teenaged brothers attended a house session in the neighboring county of Clare.<br> There they listened to an old man with a battered concertina playing in front of an<br> open fire (Séamus remembers some of the buttons had been replaced by cigarette ends!),<br> and one tune in particular caught their attention. On returning home the brothers tried<br> their best to remember what the old man had played, staying up through the night<br> working and worrying the remembered fragments until finally the reel took shape.<br> Séamus credits Joe with the first part of their refashioned piece, while himself<br> taking credit for the turn. <br> It was printed in<br> Alewine's Maid that Cut Off the Chicken's Lips (1987),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's Master Collection (1984),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Laufman's Okay, Let's Try a Contra (1973),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> McNulty's Dance Music of Ireland (1965),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1977),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006),<br> Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music (1976),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997),<br> Taylor's Music for the Sets: Yellow Book (1995) and<br> Vallely & Piggott's Blooming Meadows (1998).<br> It was recorded by<br> Sean Maguire on Music of Ireland,<br> Wendy MacIssac on The 'Reel' Thing (1994),<br> P. Fitzpatrick & flutist Desmond Higgins on The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home<br> Place (2005),<br> Jim Donoghue on The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place (2005),<br> Marie Rhines on The Reconciliation,<br> Frankie Gavin & Paul Brock on Tribute to Joe Cooley,<br> Patricia Conway and Mick Moloney on Irish Music: The Living Tradition,<br> Frank Ferrel & Joe Derrane on Fiddledance (2004),<br> John McCutcheon on Fine Times at Our House (1982),<br> Jay Ungar and Lynn Hardy on Catskill Mountain Goose Chase (1977),<br> Russ Barenberg on Cowboy Calypso,<br> Frank Ferrel on Fiddle Tunes.<br>
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