''Blueprint'' is an album by
Natalie MacMaster
Natalie MacMaster (born June 13, 1972) is a Canadian fiddler from Troy, Inverness County, Nova Scotia who plays Cape Breton fiddle music. MacMaster has toured with the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana, and Alison Krauss, and has recorded ...
, released in 2003 on the
Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Al ...
label.
Track listing
# "A Blast" – 5:27
#*"Bishop Faber MacDonald's Strathspey"
#*"Frank & Julie Leahy's Strathspey"
#*"Maggie Cameron's Stratspey"
#*"Bill Burnett's Reel"
#*"Mrs. MacPherson of Invernan"
# "Appropriate Dipstick" – 3:31
# "Jig Party" – 4:02
#*Traditional Jig
#*"The Butlers of Glen Avenue"
#*"Tee Tie Tum Tittle Tee"
#*"Annette's Chatter"
# "Touch of the Master's Hand" – 3:14
# "Eternal Friendship" – 4:27
# "Gravel Shore" – 4:45
#*"Gravel Shore"
#*"Reel for Carl"
#*"The Street Player"
# "Devil and the Dirk" – 4:44
#*"The Carignan Clog"
#*"The Devil and the Dirk"
#*"Lord Gordon's Reel"
#*"Golden Lochs"
# "The Ewe With the Crooked Horn" – 5:37
#*"The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn"
#*"The Ashplant"
# "Johsefin's Waltz" – 3:35
# "Bela's Tune" – 4:57
# "The Silver Spear" – 4:16
#*"The Silver Spear"
#*"The Glen Road to Carrick"
#*"Lad O'Beirne's Reel"
# "Minnie & Alex's Reel" – 2:35
# "My Love, Cape Breton and Me" – 5:49
#*"My Love, Cape Breton and Me"
#*"Prayer for Peace Waltz"
Personnel
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Philip Aaberg
Philip Aaberg (born April 8, 1949) is an American pianist and composer. He gained international recognition through a series of successful piano recordings released on Windham Hill Records. Although classically trained, Aaberg incorporates clas ...
- piano
*
Darol Anger - octave violin, arranger
* Larry Atamanuik - drums
* Sam Bacco - percussion
*
Alison Brown - banjo
* John R. Burr - synthesizer
*
Sam Bush
Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival.
...
- mandolin
* John Chiasson - bass
*
John Cowan
John Cowan (born August 24, 1953) is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival. Cowan became the band's bassist in 1972 after the departure ...
- vocals
* Tracey Dares - piano
* Brad Davidge - guitar
*
Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer.
Career
In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has ...
- resonator guitar
*
Béla Fleck - banjo
*
Matt Flinner
Matt Flinner is an American mandolinist, music transcriber, and ensemble leader.
Mike Marshall has called him "one of the truly great young mandolinists of our generation."
Biography Early years
Flinner's first musical experiences were in Sal ...
- mandolin
* George Hebert - guitar
* Byron House - bass
*
Viktor Krauss
Viktor Krauss is an American musician who plays acoustic and electric bass. He has released solo albums and has worked as a sideman with many musicians, including his sister, singer and fiddler Alison Krauss.
Music career
Krauss was born to Fre ...
- bass
* Matt MacIsaac - bagpipes, small pipes, electric pipes, whistle
*
Mike Marshall - mandolin
*
Edgar Meyer - bass, arranger
*
Todd Phillips - bass
* Bob Quinn - piano
* Kate Quinn - vocals
*
Gordie Sampson
Gordon Francis Sampson (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia.
Beginning his career as a performer on his hometown island of Cape Breton, both in bands and on his own, Sampson has gone on to ...
- guitar
*
Bryan Sutton - guitar
*
Victor Wooten - bass
References
Natalie MacMaster albums
2003 albums
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