Welcome Whisky Back Again
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Welcome Whisky Back Again" is a strathspey in B Flat Major (Gow, Skye),<br> A Major (Skinner), C Major (Hardings), D Major (Little) or G Major (Williamson).<br> The parts are played AB (Cranford), AAB (Athole, Little, Skinner, Skye), AABB<br> (Hardings, Williamson) or AABB' (Kerr). It was composed by Niel Gow (1727-1807) who<br> described it as:<br> "Alluding to permitting whisky to be distilled in the year 1801.<br> It is a merry dancing tune".<br> This tune follows the companion tune<br> "Farewell to Whiskey"<br> that was also composed by<br> Neil Gow as a lament on the occasion of the British government's prohibition of using<br> barley to make whiskey in 1799, due to the failure of the crop in Scotland in that year.<br> Another tune by Neil Gow in this collection is<br> "Drunk At Night and Dry i'da Morning".<br> It was printed in Carlin's Gow Collection (1986) (appears as "Whiskey Welcome Back<br> Again"),<br> Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997),<br> Gow's Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1809),<br> Hardings' All Round Collection (1905),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880’s),<br> Little's Scottish and Cape Breton Fiddle Music in New Hampshire (1984),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884) and<br> Williamson's English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976).<br> It was recorded by Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald on Classic Cuts,<br> Cathie Whitesides on Gems of Irish and Cape Breton Fiddling (1983),<br> The Albanach Guitar Duo on Weave (2012) and<br> Pete Clark on Even Now (2012).<br> I learned it from Williamson.<br>
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