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The JSD Band

Some of The JSD Band's recorded output is detailed below.


The JSD Band JSD Band: Country of the Blind (Regal Zonophone, 1971)

Side One: Country of the Blind (O'Rourke); Cooleys; Childhood Memories (O'Rourke); Sara Jane (Garret/Fuller); Old Time Heartaches (O'Rourke); Nancy (Tom Clough)/Jenny Picking Cockles; Wonders of Nature (O'Rourke);
Side Two: Don't Think Twice It's All Right (Dylan); Darling Corey; Morning Dew; Cousin Caterpillar (Mike Heron); Over and Over (O'Rourke)/Hope (O'Rourke)

Jim Divers (guitar, cello, bass), Colin Finn (percussion, glockenspiel), Des Coffield (piano, tenor banjo, G banjo, guitar, vocal), Sean O'Rourke (fiddle, G banjo, vocals, guitar), Chuck Fleming (fiddle)


jsd.jpg JSD Band: JSD Band (Cube Records Hifly 11, 1972)

Side One: Open Road (O'Rourke); As I Roved Out; Betsy (the Serving Maid); Barney Brallaghan; Johnny O' Braidislea
Side Two: Going Down the Road (Guthrie/Hays); Sylvie; Irish Girl; Honey Babe; Groundhog

Jim Divers (bass), Des Coffield (guitars, vocals, mandolin, tenor banjo), Sean O'Rourke (mouth harp, banjo, vocals, piccolo, flute, guitars), Lindsay Scott (fiddles, vocals), Colin Finn (drums, percussion)


trav.jpg JSD Band: Travelling Days (Cube Records Hifly 14, 1973)

Side One: Gallway Races; Fishin' Blues; Sarah Jane; Travelling Days; King's Favourite
Side Two: Cuckoo; Dowie Dens of Yarrow; Down the Road; Young Waters; Green Fields (of America)

Des Coffield ( mandolin, bottleneck guitar, 12-string guitar, harpsichord, accordion, piano, vocals), Sean O'Rourke (flute, piccolo, fiddle, guitar, banjo, vocals), Jim Divers (bass, cello, vocals), Chuck Fleming (fiddle, mandolin), Colin Finn (drums, percussion)


alba.jpg Alba: Alba (Rubber Records RUB 021, 1977)

Side One: Glen Rinnes/The Jig of Slurs; The Overgate; Kings Favourite; Van Dieman's Land; The Mermaid's Song/John Murray of Lochee/Pipe Major George Allen
Side Two: The Blacksmith's Reel/The Star of Munster; Fear Ah Bhata; Drummond Castle/Paddy's Leather Breeches; Captain Ward; The Garten Mother's Lullaby; The Geese In the Bog/Dr McInees' Fancy

Alan Macleod (Highland bagpipes, bodhran), Tony Cuffe (guitar, lyre, whistle, vocals), Sean O'Rourke (vocals, bazouki, flute, whistle), Mike Ward (fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals)


sngs.jpg Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor: Songs for Scotland (Beltona SBE 190, 1977)

Side One: The Land of Macleod; Where Is the Glasgow I Used To Know? (McNaughtan); The Field of Bannockburn (trad/Macgregor); Fetlar Lullaby; The Wee Magic Stane (J McEvoy); Pack Your Tools and Go (trad/Macgregor); England Forever (Cliff Hanley)
Side Two: The Freedom Come All Ye (Hamish Henderson); St Andrew (Cliff Hanley/Robin Hall); The Miner's Lullaby (Matt McGinn); The John Mclean March (Hamish Henderson); Scottish Tradition (Jimmie Macgregor); Is There for Honest Poverty (Burns)

Robin Hall & Jimmie MacGregor with Alex Hutton, Sean O'Rourke, Ricki Fernandez (bass), Billy Thom (drums)


record.jpg JSD Band: For the Record (199?)

Sarah Jane; As I Roved Out; The Cuckoo; The Irish Girl/The Musical Priest; Groundhog; Johnny O' Breadislea; The Sunshine Hornpipe/The Mountain Road; Darlin' Corey; The Galway Races; Goin' Down the Road; Don't Think Twice; Down the Road; Morrison's Jig/Cooley's Reel; Over and Over


plenty.jpg JSD Band: Pastures of Plenty (CDLDL 1274, 1998)

The Bonnie Lass of Albany; Unknown Polka/The Dancing Master's Reel/As I Went Out Upon the Ice; Pastures of Plenty; The Downfall of Paris/The Chanter's Tune; Shake Loose the Border; Seamus's Jig/Unknown/The Monaghan Jig/Unknown; Patrick's Island; The Gypsy Laddie; The Sligo Maid/The Humours of Tulla/St Anne's Reel/The Green Fields of Rossbeigh/O'Rourke's Reel; Shady Cove; Rodney's Glory/An Spalpeen Fanach; The Spanish Lady

Chuck Fleming, Sean O'Rourke (sax), Des Coffield, Rob Mairs (banjo, dobro), Jim Divers (bass), Colin Finn (drums, percussion)


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