Nelson Says:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 @2:45:50 PM

Nice.

Tom Hanway Says:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 @10:10:39 PM

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were not impressed, but it's still a great tune.

Banjophobic Says:
Friday, February 22, 2008 @10:32:00 AM

Excellent version. I liked the pace too

Tom Hanway Says:
Friday, February 22, 2008 @12:42:59 PM

Thank you John.  It's a learning CD, so this is a bit slower than I would tend to play it at a session, but still listenable and very march-like at this tempo.  I wouldn't end on this chord; rather, we would go into another tune, perhaps in G or D, which is where we're left hanging here.  That's half the fun of playing tunes - mixing and matching them in "sets" to keep it interesting or to make it different.

zRam Says:
Friday, February 22, 2008 @3:58:41 PM

I learned it from your book and love it.

Tom Hanway Says:
Sunday, February 24, 2008 @6:03:06 PM

Have you tried playing it with any other jigs from the book?  It goes with just about anything - either before or after.  It's really an inspired melody.  I don't play it often enough, though I do get to play it with Noel Carberry, the renowned uilleann piper from Longford, who loves it and plays some really neat variations using cranning techniques - very sophisticated.

little ricky Says:
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 @12:11:37 PM

Great!  One of my all time favorite tunes.  When I here this song I'm reminded of a scene from the movie: "Little Big Horn"  w/Dustin Hoffman.  I hope to be able to play it someday.  How long is the song in the book?  Longer I hope.  I went to bayside.com, but couldn't put your book in my cart.  I found it on amazon.com though, but I may have to wait a little while to purchase it, I'm still learning to play, and have other bills.  Thanks for the great music!  Ricky

Tom Hanway Says:
Thursday, October 23, 2008 @7:01:15 PM

Little Big Man, yeah, an all-time classic film, but it's very depressing when this tune is used in the film because it's genocidal activity that is going along with it.  Lakota women and children being slaughtered.  It breaks my heart to watch those scenes.  Still it's a great film and a lovely tune to play. 

Don Borchelt Says:
Saturday, November 22, 2008 @6:05:58 PM

I still see the elephant's head in my dreams.  Great picking, Tom, terrific work.  If you had lived a hundred some years ago, I'm sure you would have made the regimental band!  Just a few miles south of the Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana, there is a community called Garryowen, founded by the railroad in 1895 as a water stop. 

When John Ford directed the movie Fort Apache, he has the band play Garryowen as Henry Fonda and John Wayne leave the fort for the final battle against Cochise, as a deliberate hint that the movie is at least in part a metaphor for the 7th Cavalry and the Little Big Horn battle, and Colonel Thursday a representation of George Armstrong Custer.

Tom Hanway Says:
Sunday, November 29, 2015 @11:18:33 PM

Don, no better man, I have to meet you in person!