Larry Redican's Reel
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Larry Redican's Reel", also known as "Rags and Tatters", "Raddigan's", "Rattigan's Reel" and<br> "Redican's Reel" is an Irish-American reel in G Major (Flahery, Miller, Mulvihill/Mulvihill) or<br> F Major (Mulvihill/Greenall). The parts are played AB (Cranitch, Flaherty, Mulvihill) or<br> AA'BB (Miller).<br> According to the late Galway and New York flute player Jack Coen, this was the first tune composed<br> by Irish-American fiddler and banjo player, Larry Redican (1908-1975). Redican was born in Boyle,<br> Co. Roscommon to flute playing parents but chose the fiddle and studied with Frank O'Higgins in<br> Dublin before he emigrated to the United States in 1928. He worked for much of his life for the<br> cosmetics company Estee Lauder in New York. Redican was a member of the New York Céili Band.<br> The alternate title "Rags and Tatters" (as, for example, on Mary MacNamara's 2000 album The<br> Blackberry Blossom is perhaps one of the more ingenious miss-hearings of the name of the<br> composer, Larry ‘Redican’, variously rendered at "Rattigan", "Redigan", "Rhattigan" and others.<br> It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 1 (appears as "Rattigan's"),<br> Cranitch's Irish Fiddle Book (1988) (appears as "Rattigan's"),<br> Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990) (appears as "Rhattigan's"),<br> Miller's Fiddler's Throne (2004) and<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986). <br> It was recorded by Brian Conway & Tony De Marco on The Apple in Winter (1981),<br> John & Phil Cunningham on Against the Storm (1980) (as "Raddigan's") and<br> Jimmy Keane (et al) on The Big Squeeze and<br> Seamus and Manus McGuire on The Humours of Lissadell.<br>
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