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Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77

By Rory Gallagher

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: Do You Read Me; Moonchild; Bought And Sold; Calling Card; Secret Agent; Tattoo’d Lady; A Million Miles Away; I Take What I Want; Walk On Hot Coals. CD 2: Out On The Western Plain; Barley & Grape Rag; Pistol Slapper Blues; Too Much Alcohol; Going To My Hometown; Edged In Blue; Jack-Knife Beat; Souped-Up Ford; Bullfrog Blues; Used To Be; Country Mile.

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Rory Gallagher: Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77

Read "Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Check Shirt Wizard: Live in 1977 is yet another in a lengthy string of posthumous archival work devoted to Irish guitarist and songwriter Rory Gallagher. Like virtually all its predecessors in both audio and video configurations, including Live at Montreux (Eagle, 2006) and Notes From San Francisco (Eagle/Legacy, 2011), this double CD set (also available as ...


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Rory Gallagher

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Rory Gallagher is the man who, without question, spearheaded and influenced the entire Irish rock movement. Remarkably, many years after his untimely passing in June 1995, Rory's music is as popular as ever with his legion on faithful followers. Rory's music was his religion. The conviction and sincerity with which he projected it have assured him a place in rock history and earnt him critical acclaim as one of the greatest torchbearers of driving, effusive rock and blues. The new album augments what we already knew about Rory and multiplies it by performances that show him in a whole new light. Born in 1948 in Ballyshannon and raised in Cork, Gallagher's rock 'n roll odyssey began at an early age when he saw Elvis Presley on TV and became inspired to get his first guitar

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Blues - Deluxe Edition

By Rory Gallagher

Label: Chess
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD 1: Electric Blues - Don't Start Me Talkin’; Nothin’ But The Devil; Tore Down; Off The Handle; I Could've Had Religion; As the Crow Flies; A Million Miles Away; Should've Learnt My Lesson; Leaving Town Blues; Drop Down Baby; I'm Ready; Bullfrog Blues. CD 2: Acoustic Blues - Who's That Coming; Should've Learnt My Lesson; Prison Blues; Secret Agent; Blow Wind Blow; Bankers Blues; Whole Lot Of People; Loanshark Blues; Pistol Slapper Blues; Can't Be Satisfied; Want Ad Blues; Walkin' Blues. CD 3: Live Blues - When My Baby She Left Me; Nothin' But The Devil; What In The World; I Wonder Who; Messin' With The Kid; Tore Down; Garbage Blues; All Around ; Born Under A Bad Sign; You Upset Me; Comin’ Home Baby; Rory Talking Blues.

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Rory Gallagher: Blues - Deluxe Edition

Read "Blues - Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

The Chess Records logo appears prominently on the cover of Rory Gallagher's Blues, seemingly a mere cosmetic touch, but in fact a telling facet of the graphic design adorning this handsome three-CD set that underscores the authenticity of the music inside. The glossy fold-out insert inside the slipcase of this Deluxe Edition also hearkens to the ...

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Live From Birmingham: Michael Chapman, Mike Heron, Trembling Bells, Ed Askew & Matt Woosey

Read "Live From Birmingham: Michael Chapman, Mike Heron, Trembling Bells, Ed Askew & Matt Woosey" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Michael Chapman The Kitchen Garden Café August 7, 2017 This intimate venue in the Kings Heath suburb of Birmingham was packed to capacity for an appearance by one of ye olde folk legends of England. Singer and guitarist Michael Chapman is now in his 76th year, originally sprouting in Leeds, ...

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Kickback City: Deluxe Edition

Read "Kickback City: Deluxe Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Kickback City Ian Rankin/Tim Truman/Rory Gallagher 40 Pages ISBN: B019GLERXO Eagle Rock 2016 Notwithstanding titles such as “Deluxe Edition" of Irish Tour '74 (Legacy Recordings, 2014)or the almost equally splendid archiving that is Notes From San Francisco (Eagle Rock, 2011), Kickback City Deluxe Edition is the most distinctive entry ...

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Claude Nobs: We All Came Out To Montreux...

Read "Claude Nobs: We All Came Out To Montreux..." reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Montreux Jazz Festival is fifty. It's a significant milestone and cause for celebration. No doubt there will be an added festive element to this year's edition of the festival, founded by Claude Nobs--along with pianist Géo Voumard and writer René Langel--in 1967. Yet for many, the celebrations will be tinged with sadness due to the absence ...

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What's Going On?: Taste Live at the Isle of Wight

Read "What's Going On?: Taste Live at the Isle of Wight" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette

Taste What's Going On? Taste Live at The Isle of Wight Eagle Vision 2015 The family of guitarist Rory Gallagher has certainly done right by him with the posthumous releases they've overseen since his passing in 1995. From expanded editions of landmark albums like Irish Tour '74 (Polydor, 1974) to deluxe ...

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Bray Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Bray Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Bray Jazz Festival 2015 Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2015 Sunshine and squall. The sun and the clouds chased each other's tails throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend of the Bray Jazz Festival. In a way the weather mirrored the music--a pleasingly eclectic, bracing mixture--and the fortunes of the ...


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