Blues (3CD Deluxe Edition) (UMC – Chess 2019) – CD3 – Live Blues In May of 2019 Rory Gallagher’s estate released “Blues” (the title as unpretentious as Rory and his music). Available in two formats: a fifteen-track single CD and 2LP vinyl set and a thirty-six track 3CD Deluxe Edition. With performances ranging from 1971 […]
Blues (3CD Deluxe Edition) (UMC – Chess 2019) – CD2 – Acoustic Blues In May of 2019 Rory Gallagher’s estate released “Blues” (the title as unpretentious as Rory and his music). Available in two formats: a fifteen-track single CD and 2LP vinyl set and a thirty-six track 3CD Deluxe Edition. With performances ranging from 1971 […]
Blues (3CD Deluxe Edition) (UMC – Chess 2019) – CD1 – Electric Blues In May of 2019 Rory Gallagher’s estate released “Blues” (the title as unpretentious as Rory and his music). Available in two formats: a fifteen-track single CD and 2LP vinyl set and a thirty-six track 3CD Deluxe Edition. With performances ranging from 1971 […]
His Last Released Studio Recordings – Part 2 – ‘Showbiz Blues’ Prologue We know now that the song did not just spring spontaneously from Green fully formed; the beauty of it is that it sounds as if it did. Over a six-month period, during the sessions for “Then Play On”, he kept circling back to […]
His Last Released Studio Recordings – Part 1 – ‘Leaving Town Blues’ Rory Gallagher was born March 02, 1948 in Ballyshannon County, Donegal, Ireland. Growing up in Cork in the 1950’s, the radio introduced him to skiffle players such as Lonnie Donegan and early rock ’n roll stars such as Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Chuck […]
My introduction to this song was on “Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack – Rush” (Reprise 1992) Eric Clapton composed and performed the score and included a few songs; he brought in Buddy Guy to take the lead on this complete makeover of a number that Guy had originally recorded in 1962. Guy turns in […]
Wolf Tracks – ‘How Many More Years’ / ‘No Place to Go’ / ‘You Gonna Wreck My Life’ Chester Burnett’s first record, ‘Moanin’ At Midnight’ backed with ‘How Many More Years’, was recorded by Sam Phillips at the Memphis Recording Studio in Tennessee in July of 1951. It was a rare two-sided hit with ‘How […]
