Cherish the Ladies | The Phonograph Project

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Here’s the sixth monthly installment of The Phonograph Project video series, our take on a recording made in 1923 by the Chicago/New York piper Tom Ennis. His version of ‘Cherish the Ladies’ isn’t so different from the version of the tune popularized by Michael Coleman, but there’s some lovely piping turns in Ennis’ version that you don’t hear as often these days.

The Phonograph Project is a running monthly video and tutorial series exploring Irish music recorded in America in the 1920s and 30s. Each month, we pick a 78 that was recorded exactly 100 years ago (or as close as we can get). We study the tunes and the style of the musician(s), record a video of us playing the tunes, and create a tutorial that teaches the tunes and captures the setting, style, and spirit of the music as we’ve interpreted it. We also record a second set of tunes every month that’s only available over on our Patreon page. In addition to all this, we release high-quality audio tracks of each of our sets for our subscribers, which means that we’re building a full-length album month by month.

The Phonograph Project is hosted over on Patreon. There’s a bunch of content over there, including early access to our monthly videos, monthly bonus videos for subscribers, historical notes, and full-blown tutorials on the tunes on fiddle, flute, and uilleann pipes. Additionally, subscribers get a free copy of our 2019 album, "The Glory Reel". The Phonograph Project has been running for six months now, which means that we’ve released twelve tracks and six tutorials, all of which are available immediately upon signing up!

Check out the project at   / phonographproject  . To learn more, go to http://woodsonfinley.com/phonograph