Dowd's No. 9
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Dowd's No. 9", also known as "The Cow With The Crooked Horn", <br> "Hugh Gillespie’s" and "Summer In Ireland" is an Irish reel in D major.<br> The parts are played AABB'.<br> The Dowd of the title was John Dowd (or O'Dowd), a Sligo fiddler who emigrated to<br> New York and was an influence on Michael Coleman and other better known Sligo and<br> New York fiddlers. His nephew Joe O'Dowd (1913-1986) and Joe's son Séamie O'Dowd<br> continued the family fiddling tradition. No one knows if there were eight other tunes<br> but the "No. 9" name was attached to this one when it was recorded in New York in the<br> 1939 by Donegal-born fiddler Hugh Gillespie (1906-1986). It was one of the relatively<br> few tunes Gillespie recorded that had not previously been recorded by his mentor<br> Michael Coleman. It was first recorded in New York, in 1927, by Sligo fiddler Joe<br> Tansey, who titled it "Summer in Ireland". Piper Séamus Ennis also gave it that name<br> when he contributed it to Breandan Breathnach's collection.<br> New York musician, writer and researcher Don Meade finds a 'primitive version' of the<br> tune in Ryan's Mammoth Collection under the title "Maid of Athens".<br> It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ II (1976) (as "Summer in Ireland"),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland (1976),<br> Peoples' Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes (1986) and<br> Taylor's Through the Half-Door (1992).<br> It was recorded <br> Joseph Tansey as "Summer in Ireland" (1926),<br> Hugh Gillespie (1939),<br> James Kelly on Traditional Irish Music (1996),<br> Frankie Gavin & Paul Brock on Tribute to Joe Cooley (1988),<br> Matt Molloy & Sean Keane on Contentment is Wealth (1985),<br> Paddy Cronin on Kerry's Own Paddy Cronin (1977),<br> Hugh Gillespie on Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music,<br> Shaskeen on Atlantic Breeze,<br> The Chieftains on Water from the Well and<br> Joe Cooley on Cooley (1975).<br>
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