Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Arranged: 2004 Arranger: Doug Sparling I believe this is a traditional tune, but I'm not sure. I learned it from uilleann piper Seamus Ennis or Liam O'Flynn (or both). Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 Nothing special, the last track I wrote and recorded for this unfinished CD.

Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling Bodhran: David Shaughnessy Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 A set of reels (the first being "For the Sake of Old Decency," picked up from a Michael Tubridy album of the same name) I put together one evening. You…

Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2006 An old English/Scottish folk song. It's very well known, but has a great melody and I'm not ashamed to play it...

Pennywhistle, Low Whistle, Bar Stool (w/ drums ticks): Doug Sparling Bodhran: David Shaughnessy Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 Set of traditional Irish jigs. Don't ask me the names of them, I don't remember (are you seeing a pattern here…

Guitars/Mandolin: Doug Sparling Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 A couple of nice reels played on guitar, the first is The Cup of Tea, can't remember the name of the second one. Unfortunately my midi flute scratch track got added in the mix…

Guitars/Keyboards/Low Whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 Irish song, also know by its English title, "For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name."

Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Fiddle: Brent Hoad Bodhran: David Shaughnnessy Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 Set of three tunes I wrote in 2005. Well, I guess they're hornpipes of sorts...

Guitars/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling Bodhran: David Shaughnessy Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 A couple of jigs I wrote after spending time on Inishmore in the Aran Islands.

Guitars/Keyboards/Shaker: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 I believe there's a demo version of this tune that I've already uploaded to alonetone. Originally written as a piano piece.

Guitar/Mandolin: Doug Sparling Fiddle: Brent Hoad Composer: Turlough O'Carolan Arrangement: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 A couple of Planxties by O'Carolan. For the life of me I don't remember the names of them...one may be Charles O'Conor…

Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2005 This was my "signature" track several years ago. I wrote this on guitar in the mid-90s while I was getting divorced, but later renamed it and recorded it…

Written and Recorded June 7, 2010 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.

Written and Recorded June 6, 2010 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, DADGAD Capo V), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity. Rachel, you are my hero...

Written and Recorded June 5/6, 2010 Details: No-name lap steel (FCFFCF),POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity. A quick little improv. Too lazy to grab a guitar so just used the lap steel. I think it still has the same strings on it from…

Written and Recorded April 22, 2010 Buddah defined compassion as "a trembling of the heart." Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGAD Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.