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Natalie MacMaster — Flamenco Fling Reel for Brenda
Album: In My Hands
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6.7

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Total ratings: 591









Released: 1999
Length: 3:43
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100mph of GREAT!!  Thanx RP!   
 tununiq wrote:

She is beautiful plus an amazingly entertaining  performer live! I am not a great fan of fiddle music and thought 2 hours would too much, but I was so disappointed when it was over! Extremely impressive!




You lucky duck!  I wish I could have been there too!
 walchenbach wrote:

annoying.
 




That is what the "SKIP BUTTON"  is for!!  I think it is  GREAT!!  
 HazzeSwede wrote:
Well,hum,maybe if She slowed down a bit,she would hit every intended note,as a song,sounds clearly like- able. {#Shifty}




So, you can play better this this lady?
 Isabellesmith wrote:

Not fit with the style of this music site..



Please explain which styles fit "this" music site?
 sirdroseph wrote:
Me likey! And is she has hot as she appears on the album cover?{#Hearteyes}


Keep it in your pants and listen to the music instead.
She is beautiful plus an amazingly entertaining  performer live! I am not a great fan of fiddle music and thought 2 hours would too much, but I was so disappointed when it was over! Extremely impressive!
This guy is good: peter_james_bond wrote:

No sir, this music is uplifting, it is your comments that are irritating.

 


Pass
 sirdroseph wrote:
Me likey! And is she has hot as she appears on the album cover?{#Hearteyes}
 
Hard to tell what a girl looks like when caught takin a crap,ain't it ?

Must live in the same neighborhood. Uh sorry, neighbourhood ... I agree. Music is quite irritating. Off to listen to some jazz on CBC.

 
peter_james_bond wrote:

No sir, this music is uplifting, it is your comments that are irritating.

 


Me likey! And is she has hot as she appears on the album cover?{#Hearteyes}
Found this on TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzP_kIXsuvA

{#Angel}


She is talented, no doubt.
 ndg wrote:
flamenco???? {#Naughty}
 
Celtic flamenco!  {#Cool}  Kind of a nice change from her usual stuff.
flamenco???? {#Naughty}
 AdyMiles wrote:
irritating music
 
No sir, this music is uplifting, it is your comments that are irritating.

irritating music
 apd wrote:
That's an awful cover - nice type, good layout but the clumsy, "artless" photo is terrible. And when did Natalie's hair turn green?

 
I think the cover is quite well-done and pleasing, but that's just me.  The green tint could be from being photographed under fluorescent light, if that's what the hues actually look like.


 walchenbach wrote:
annoying.
 
 

very much so.

 WonderLizard wrote:


Interesting thread. New bands like Equation, Hem, The Wailin' Jennys, and in some measure Nickel Creek are adding percussion and more bass (bass, especially string bass, has been around blue- and new-grass for a while) to rather nice effect IMHO. Y'know, music grows and changes over time. "Hillbilly music" grew into New Grass. Now the instrumentation is being taken in another, different direction. Let's see where it takes us, eh?
 
My take on New Grass is that the singer can actually sing. Listen to some early blue grass, Bristol sessions and so on. The singing was terrible. I agree, lets see where this takes us !!!!

Yay, Natalie!!! :D
 snakechaser wrote:

Sometimes you just have to turn a song off so you can reclaim your brain. For me, this is one of those times.

 
mos-def

 Isabellesmith wrote:
Not fit with the style of this music site..
 
Sometimes you just have to turn a song off so you can reclaim your brain. For me, this is one of those times.

annoying.
 
Not fit with the style of this music site..
That's an awful cover - nice type, good layout but the clumsy, "artless" photo is terrible. And when did Natalie's hair turn green?
Hints of Scarlet Rivera in here...
Wow. A little of this goes a long, long way.
Please forget this song...
Very good... Never haerd Natalie MacMaster oudside RP Thanx..
If you like this - check out a band called 'Celtic Hangover' Half Irish, half French - excellent, fiddles, flutes, the lot!
Well,hum,maybe if She slowed down a bit,she would hit every intended note,as a song,sounds clearly like- able. {#Shifty}


Posted: Mar 29, 2007 - 12:07 < Reply > --------------------------- auburntigerrich wrote: She's done better... much laozilover wrote:
"4 - acceptable"
I gotta roll-'em with ya lzlvr: Elements of country(which I have personal reasons for intensely disliking), bluegrass, rock, Celtic, Falmenco, jazz & classical; very smoothly interwoven & sequed. To each their own & mine is a 9.
As I suppose this was designed to do, it seems to be short circuiting something in my brain. I feel a seizure coming on.....
auburntigerrich wrote:
She's done better... much
"4 - acceptable"
So, uh, is Brenda enjoying it also?
She's done better... much better. The trumpets and over-produced backup band drive this tune deep into the cheeseball range. 4. And I'm a huge fan of a good fiddle tune.">
She is too cutsey and too Canadian Content for me... the whole Celtic thing from the east coast is done for me. Not to take away from her talents but to be honest the Canadian Content laws is what makes people like this exist. If those content laws werent around... she would be playing pubs and kitchen parties... Natalie and her cousin Ashley MacIsaac can do some pretty impressive fiddle work but to be honest its all like British Cooking to me No Spice, Bland and Over Done it gets a 2 from me
Nice tune.
penumbra wrote:
This chick is real flexible (musically, I mean, although I'm not eliminating the possiblity... ;). God loves (some) Capers.
Apparently she is flexible the other way too!
I can sort of agree with the drumming comment. I am a little more flexible; bongo's and creative rhythm are usually a nice spice. Too often are generic beats added to an already good track.
DeafByBeheading wrote:
Disclaimer: minor rant follows. You're welcome to disagree. No no no! Drum kits do not belong in Celtic or bluegrass music. The Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs / Earl Scruggs album was largely ruined for me by the drumming, as is this song. Not to mention the electric bass guitar. I would give this a nine if it weren't for the drums. The drums just sound absurdly out of place to me in any music like this. Keep drums for rock, country, blues, and jazz. Fire up the drum machines for this crazy "electronic" music the kids are conjuring up these days. But don't force this sort of percussion onto folk music. It just sounds wrong.
Interesting thread. New bands like Equation, Hem, The Wailin' Jennys, and in some measure Nickel Creek are adding percussion and more bass (bass, especially string bass, has been around blue- and new-grass for a while) to rather nice effect IMHO. Y'know, music grows and changes over time. "Hillbilly music" grew into New Grass. Now the instrumentation is being taken in another, different direction. Let's see where it takes us, eh?
Man, there is some musical fusion going on here that I never would have thought would work. Yet, somehow. . .it does! Cool stuff!
This is so awesome! Irish Flamenco?
This chick is real flexible (musically, I mean, although I'm not eliminating the possiblity... ;). God loves (some) Capers.
DeafByBeheading wrote:
Disclaimer: minor rant follows. You're welcome to disagree. No no no! Drum kits do not belong in Celtic or bluegrass music. The Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs / Earl Scruggs album was largely ruined for me by the drumming, as is this song. Not to mention the electric bass guitar. I would give this a nine if it weren't for the drums. The drums just sound absurdly out of place to me in any music like this. Keep drums for rock, country, blues, and jazz. Fire up the drum machines for this crazy "electronic" music the kids are conjuring up these days. But don't force this sort of percussion onto folk music. It just sounds wrong.
I really enjyed this, and think the drums fitted pretty well. It had elements of flamenco music as well as the Celtic feel. So the drums fitted in. And if you go Scottish dancing it will be rare for them not to have a kit.
DeafByBeheading wrote:
Disclaimer: minor rant follows. You're welcome to disagree. No no no! Drum kits do not belong in Celtic or bluegrass music. The Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs / Earl Scruggs album was largely ruined for me by the drumming, as is this song. Not to mention the electric bass guitar. I would give this a nine if it weren't for the drums. The drums just sound absurdly out of place to me in any music like this. Keep drums for rock, country, blues, and jazz. Fire up the drum machines for this crazy "electronic" music the kids are conjuring up these days. But don't force this sort of percussion onto folk music. It just sounds wrong.
Are we to be restricted to the bodran, footstomping or handclapping then? Forsooth!
Dianyla wrote:
Maybe it's because her roots are showing!
DeafByBeheading wrote:
Disclaimer: minor rant follows. You're welcome to disagree. No no no! Drum kits do not belong in Celtic or bluegrass music. The Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs / Earl Scruggs album was largely ruined for me by the drumming, as is this song. Not to mention the electric bass guitar. I would give this a nine if it weren't for the drums. The drums just sound absurdly out of place to me in any music like this. Keep drums for rock, country, blues, and jazz. Fire up the drum machines for this crazy "electronic" music the kids are conjuring up these days. But don't force this sort of percussion onto folk music. It just sounds wrong.
I agree when you talk about bluegrass. I think celtic can take drums. I love everything NMacM does pretty much, but her playing has its own drive -- she's got more energy without the drums, to my ear.
The band has chops, that's fer dang sure!
jah_blessed wrote:
Why does she look so depressed?
Maybe it's because her roots are showing!
JohnErle wrote:
Because she dropped the olive from her invisible martini?
JohnErle wrote:
Because she dropped the olive from her invisible martini?
Hey, that fits the photo perfectly! Thanks for the visual -- a neat observation.
Hilarious! What sort of preposterous nonsense is this? I am giving it a ten forthwith! Sigh - makes me pine for the Muppet Show.
Perfect song to wake up to.Gets me energized.
Don't go getting all soft on us there, PG physicsgenius wrote:
This was tolerable as long as this doesn't become "all Lord of the Dance all the time".
Disclaimer: minor rant follows. You're welcome to disagree. No no no! Drum kits do not belong in Celtic or bluegrass music. The Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs / Earl Scruggs album was largely ruined for me by the drumming, as is this song. Not to mention the electric bass guitar. I would give this a nine if it weren't for the drums. The drums just sound absurdly out of place to me in any music like this. Keep drums for rock, country, blues, and jazz. Fire up the drum machines for this crazy "electronic" music the kids are conjuring up these days. But don't force this sort of percussion onto folk music. It just sounds wrong.
jah_blessed wrote:
Why does she look so depressed?
Because she dropped the olive from her invisible martini?
Roverfish wrote:
Whereas "all negative comments all the time" is ever so enjoyable.
There's a burning need around here for an "ignore user" function. Sometimes you can wait them out, but other times . . . Is there such a function and I've just been over-looking it?
Why does she look so depressed? I know, never judge an album by its cover.
physicsgenius wrote:
This was tolerable as long as this doesn't become "all Lord of the Dance all the time".
Whereas "all negative comments all the time" is ever so enjoyable. Very enjoyable tune from Ms. MacMaster. She got her some skillz.
BoFiS wrote:
awesome, so glad I was ripping when this came on :-D
Hope you're better now. :-k
This was tolerable as long as this doesn't become "all Lord of the Dance all the time".
Your Kidding me, La Bottine...i can't beleive you know them, they rock?! Le Folkore a son meilleur! Unfortunatly we don't hear much of them outside the Hollidays RichardPrins wrote:
8) As it's a reel, it sounds a bit like La Bottine Souriante too...
Ah, a diversion. Nice.
bajafisher wrote:
sounds like Cinco de St. Patrick's day!! But I like it.
Ditto. and if I may add, not that it's relevant, it looks like she has nice legs (if those are hers on the album cover). :D
Great tune from a fantastic CD. If you ever get the chance to see Natalie perform live, do so. She puts on a great show, and her band is made up of top notch musicians as well.
TOTALLY breaking me out of the funk caused by an abnormally frigid, wet Chicago day. :daisy.gif: Thanks RP!
mrmojorisin wrote:
Reminds me of Ashley McIsaac (sp?)
She is his cousin. And much hotter. Ms. MacMaster... may I be your MacSlave?
Reminds me of Ashley McIsaac (sp?)
Ah... the start of a new hour. Tune-out time.
I don't know why...but I like this :?:
Thanks Bill and Rebecca. And submitting listeners. Never stop playing cuts like this.
8) As it's a reel, it sounds a bit like La Bottine Souriante too...
sounds like Cinco de St. Patrick's day!! But I like it.
Brilliant song, brilliant choice, brilliant station.
And...who's playing the guitar bits?
woolf wrote:
Dang, the only other band I've ever heard of that approaches this kind of multiculti ethnic variety -- Billboard called it "world-wise, unclassifiable music" -- is Brave Combo. Heard them once live, years ago, in Somerville, MA. They hail from Denton, TX. (click here)
You're right, Brave Combo is great and as Billboard said, they are unclassifiable. Do you own any BC CDs? You should upload some and see if Bill will play 'em! (I see that there is ONE BC song at RP.)
Bill you are fabulous - I mentioned her yesterday in a post and here she is! Just saw her in concert three weeks ago, the energy she has is infectious and hot! What a treat!
This is great! I now have a hankering for Sharon Shannon!
I agree with everyone else. This is amazing! What a wonderful blend of stylesâ€"not easy to pull off I would imagine. 3 thumbs up!
awesome, so glad I was ripping when this came on :-D
This is incredible!!!!! Mixing East coast fiddle with Spanish beats and you get: CHAIR DANCING!!!! wooo hooo (plus Natalie is CANADIAN!!!)
Dang, the only other band I've ever heard of that approaches this kind of multiculti ethnic variety -- Billboard called it "world-wise, unclassifiable music" -- is Brave Combo. Heard them once live, years ago, in Somerville, MA. They hail from Denton, TX. (click here)
I LOVE Natalie! I saw her on Austin City Limits once ( I think that was the program- could have been something else)... anyway, she was amazing!! I went out and bought one of her cd's (My Roots Are Showing). Very cool :)
Damn, this is great!!! :-({|= :whip:
brighthue wrote:
An example of real musicianship... and RP dares to play it! If you want Eminem, go elsewhere.
Spot on!
This is wonderful. Fiddle playing can get wearing, but the mix of traditional styles and flemenco, completely with the backup horns and hand drums. Delish!
An example of real musicianship... and RP dares to play it! If you want Eminem, go elsewhere.
Now this is just delightful. I would love to hear this more often. Could I, please?
Yeah, let's have a little more of that Scotch-Cape Breton-Spanish thing, OK?
play it again PLAY IT AGAIN! :D
This one should go into heavier rotation, this is \"the goods\"
this song is a great example of why radio paradise kicks it so hard. where else do you get this variety?