Blueprint (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Blueprint
Type = studio
Artist = Rory Gallagher


Released = 1973
Recorded = Marquee Studios and Polydor Studios
Genre = Blues-rock
Producer = Rory Gallagher
Last album = "Live in Europe"
(1972)
This album = "Blueprint"
(1973)
Next album = "Tattoo"
(1973)

Blueprint is the fourth album by Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher. It was released as a vinyl record in 1973 but was re-released in 2000 in the CD format with two new tracks.

Album profile

For this album Gallagher decided to embellish his sound by adding keyboards into the band line-up. His new drum player Rod deAth (who had replaced the late Wilgar Campbell, Gallagher's former drummer) recommended Lou Martin to play the keyboards. The new line-up clicked and remained together for some five years.

The band in this line-up played live on the BBC 2 TV programme Old Grey Whistle Test featuring tracks including Hands Off, Seventh Son and Race The Breeze.

Track listing

ide one

#"Walk on Hot Coals" – 7:03
#"Daughter of the Everglades" – 6:13
#"Banker's Blues" – 4:46
#"Hands Off" – 4:31

ide two

#"Race the Breeze" – 6:54
#"Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" – 8:25
#"Unmilitary Two-Step" – 2:49
#"If I Had a Reason" – 4:30

2000 CD reissue

#

"Stompin' Ground" – 3:31
#"Treat Her Right" – 4:00

Notes

External links

* [http://www.rorygallagher.com/news.htm] Rory Gallagher official site