Sweeney's Buttermilk
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sweeney's Buttermilk", also known as<br> "Charlie Lennon's Reel", "Buttermilk Mary", "Charlie's Buttermilk Mary",<br> "Brendan McGlinchey's" or “Scarce o' Tatties" is an Irish Reel in (whole or cut time) and<br> A Dorian, B Minor or B Dorian. The parts are played AABB.<br> This is a modern composition by fiddler Brendan McGlinchey (1940 - 2020)<br> (though sometimes mistakenly attributed to Charlie Lennon).<br> The story goes that McGlinchey was attending a musical<br> event and found accommodations in the caravan of a man named Sweeney, with whom he shared<br> his stay. Sweeney, like McGlinchey, was quite fond of buttermilk.<br> The tune is usually played in the key of B Minor/B Dorian.<br> It appears in Bulmer & Sharpley’s collection Music from Ireland, vol. 4 (1976)<br> (as “Charlie Lennon’s” sourced to Lennon as at the time the tune’s title was unknown).<br> It was printed in Taylor's Through the Half-door (1992).<br> It was recorded by Touchstone on The New Land (1982),<br> The Chieftains on 9 (1979),<br> Brendan Mulvihill & Donna Long on The Morning Dew (1992),<br> Vinnie Kilduff on The Boys from the Blue Hill (1990),<br> Seamus & Kevin Glackin on Na Saighneáin/Northern Lights (1988),<br> Silly Wizard on Golden, Golden (1984) and So Many Partings (1979),<br> Shaskeen on Atlantic Breeze (1988) and<br> Kevin Burke on Sweeney’s Dream (c. 1970’s).<br>
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