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Live at the Prog Cen

by PADDY GO EASY

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about

Paddy Go Easy was a traditional Irish band in Tallahassee, Fla., begun in the 1990s by Pat and roped in nearly every player of Irish music in our distant corner of the diaspora. Pat's son Kelly joined the band, followed by Doug in 2004, and Jeryl in 2005; this lineup that would last a decade. Drummer Jim Faulk would join soon after.

This performance in probably 2006 was recorded by Mike McCue of Harmonic Cycle Studios at our friend Adrien Mariner's Cafe in the Prog Cen.

The Tallahassee Progressive Center was a fruitful but short-lived experiment in providing office and performance space for nonprofits and artists in the empty FBMC building owned by Mike Sheridan, himself a great supporter of Irish music and culture. The building is now a public health clinic.

In 2022, Kelly McCaffrey, a self-employed fine carpenter, passed suddenly from leukemia. Among his last wishes were for the unreleased recordings of Paddy Go Easy to be shared with the world. It is the band's wish that any proceeds benefit his two sons, Cavin and Ronin, and widow, Pam.

Paddy Go Easy thanks Mike McCue and David Wu, Kelly's lifelong friend and bandmate (Prey to the Gods), for making Kelly's dream release come true.

Slaíte!

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released July 28, 2022

Paddy Go Easy
Live at the Prog Cen
(We were some magnificent bastards)

1. The Night Visitor (As I Roved Out)
Kelly McCaffrey: Lead vocal, mandolin
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer, backing vocal
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
An Irish traditional tune revived by Luke Kelly and The Dubliners, among others.

2. Carolan's Draught
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer
Doug Martin: Guitar
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Slow version of a composition by the blind Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) from the early 1700s.

3. Spancil Hill
Kelly McCaffrey: Lead vocal, guitar
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Traditional Irish folk ballad of the post-famine diaspora, composed by Michael Considine (1850–73), who was born at Spacil Hill, County Clare, and emigrated to the United States.

4. The Lonesome Boatman
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Doug Martin: Guitar
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer
Irish traditional tin whistle tune arranged by Doug Martin and Jeryl Matlock of Paddy Go Easy.

5. Mursheen Durkin
Kelly McCaffrey: Lead vocal, Mandolin
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer, backing vocal
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Irish folk song of hopeful emigration with Connacht Irish pronunciations sung to the air of "Cailíní deasa Mhuigheo" (pretty girls of Mayo), a popular 19th century reel.

6. Bonnie Blue Flag
Pat McCaffrey: Lead vocal, Hammered dulcimer,
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin, backing vocal
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
The Bonnie Blue flag was unofficial first flag of the rebellious Confederate states. Pat McCaffrey wrote Irish patriotic lyrics for the CSA marching song penned by Irish immigrant Harry McCarthy (1861) on the tune of Valentine Vousden's popular "Irish Jaunting Car Song" (1850s), later cited by James Joyce in Finnegan's Wake

7. The Whale
Kelly McCaffrey: Lead vocal, Mandolin
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Lyrics are a modern adaptation by Paul Kaplan of theme and tune of the ancient, "Greenland Whale Fisheries."

8. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Pat McCaffrey: Lead vocal, Hammered dulcimer,
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin, backing vocal
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Pat McCaffrey wrote lyrics on the "Troubles" to this popular tune of the Irish Folk Revival and the American Civil War (When Johnny Comes Marching Home), but the melody is ancient.

9. Fields of Athenry
Kelly McCaffrey: Lead vocal, Mandolin
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
A folk ballad of the famine by Pete St. John (1979).

10. Rakes of Mallow
Doug Martin: Guitar
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer
Traditional Irish raking song about Mallow town in County Cork. Used as a fight song by Univ. of Notre Dame.

11. Star of the County Down
Kelly McCaffrey: Lead vocal, Mandolin
Doug Martin: Guitar, backing vocal
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer, backing vocal
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
A courting song with English words by Cathal McGarvey (1900s?)to a traditional tune.

12. Garry Owen
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin
Doug Martin: Guitar
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
Traditional Irish air that is the marching tune and nickname of the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry.

13. Dunmore Lasses
Kelly McCaffrey: Mandolin
Doug Martin: Guitar
Pat McCaffrey: Hammered dulcimer
Jeryl Matlock: Flute
A traditional reel (Gearrchailiú an Dúin Mhóir) from County Galway that became the closing tune for Paddy Go Easy performances.

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Paddy Go Easy was a traditional Irish band in Tallahassee, Fla., begun in the 1990s by Pat and roped in nearly every player of Irish music in our distant corner of the diaspora. Pat's son Kelly joined the band, followed by Doug in 2004, and Jeryl in 2005; this lineup that would last a decade. Drummer Jim Faulk would join soon after. ... more

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