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Performers:
Busby, Tom, Fermanagh / New York, Sligo, speech in English A1, 3–9, 14, 19, 23–25;
pipes solo A2–8, 10?, 11?, 12?, 13?, 20, 21?, 22?, 23, 24;
Meehan, Seamus, Dublin, pipes solo A15;
Conroy, Andy, Roscommon / New York A16, 18;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A17;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, speech in English A26–27?, 28;
pipes solo A28;
Hanafin, William, Kerry / Boston, fiddle solo A26–27;
Gallagher, Michael, Leitrim / New York, pipes in duet A29

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Instruction to Ed Harrison on how to play the tune that follows]
2. Jig: The Lark in the Morning
3. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Miss McLeod's Reel
4. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the performer's chanter reed], Untitled [The Merry Blacksmith]
5. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Sligo Maid
6. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], The Munster Buttermilk [With four parts; usually three]
7. Speech, March / Hornpipe: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
8. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Untitled
9. Speech: Untitled [Instruction to Ed Harrison on playing traditional tunes]
10. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches] (very faint)
11. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Liverpool Hornpipe]
12. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Liverpool Hornpipe]
13. Jig: Untitled [The Frieze Breeches]
14. Speech: Untitled [Addressed to 'Kevin'; about 'backstitching', a type of ornamentation used on the uilleann pipes; introduction to the pieces of music that follow]
15. Jigs: The Humours of Ennistymon [Mistitled; Tell Her I Am], Untitled [When Sick Is It Tea You Want] [Recorded at a concert]
16. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle [Mistitled; The Kildare Fancy]
17. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music]
18. Jig: Cherish the Ladies
19. Speech: Untitled [Information about the previous pieces of music; introduction to the next piece of music]
20. Air: The Dark Woman of the Glen / Bean Dubh an Ghleanna [The version played here is very close to that recorded on a private cylinder by William Hanafin (fiddle) and also to that notated from Patsy Touhey (pipes) in O'Neill's 'Music of Ireland'; The Lament for Staker Wallace]
21. Reel, Jig, Reel: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled, Untitled [Bonnie Kate] [END OF BAND ONE]
22. Hornpipe: Untitled (with extraneous sounds from the source recording) [The High Level]
23. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music], Blame Not the Bard [In a version close to those recorded by William Hanafin and by Patsy Touhey; Eamon an Chnoic]
24. Speech, Air: Untitled [Introduction to the next piece of music; stated to be a favourite of Michael Carney (pipes, Mayo / New York)], The Dear Irish Boy
25. Speech: Untitled [Introduction to the next pieces of music, which are dubbings from cylinders]
26. Speech, Air: Untitled [Spoken introduction on the original cylinder recording], Bean Dubh an Ghleanna [The Dark Woman of the Glen] [From a private cylinder recording in the collection of Tom Busby]
27. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled [Spoken introduction on the original cylinder recording], Blame Not the Bard, The Shaskeen Reel (brief; cut short) [From a private cylinder recording in the collection of Tom Busby]
28. Speech, Air: Untitled [Spoken introduction on the original cylinder recording], Blame Not the Bard [From a private cylinder recording in the collection of Tom Busby]
29. Reels: Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled [The Cup of Tea] [Dubbing from a commercial 78rpm disc] [END OF BAND TWO]