Getting Lost is the B-side of Soft Storm.
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The Tune
I hadn’t planned to release it — but then… 🙂
It was recorded live at our Cork Folk Festival show in Coughlan’s Live. We’ve started calling the more modified tunes we play “Considerations.” Getting Lost is always a consideration — whether it’s heading off on a trip or simply beginning a sentence.
I first noticed the tune years ago at a session in the Spailpín Fánach in Cork.. It was played by an American- maybe Canadian – flute player – I can’t remember his name but he was friends with a nice American fiddle player called Alice and he was in Cork for a Hammer Dulcimer festival. Anyway I didn’t catch the name of the tune until a few years later driving back from Waterford it came on the radio. I pulled in and luckily I had a dictaphone to record it. It was a recording by Kevin Burke and he was playing the end of the third part a bit different. So then I got the name of the tune and I was able to go away and learn it. I used to play it at sessions with Ceili Allstars and later with the piper John Byrne of Arundo. The tune is the Roscommon Reel. When I put it on guitar I changed the first part to a major setting, left the second part alone and only bring in the third bit every second round. I love the tune but it’s one of the ones I’d hope no one would recognise. It’s the contrast between the fist two sections that gave me a cold sensation that reminded of getting lost.