Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
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Free Music Review: one of the best albums...ever
Hit: 5 Stars
I listen to all kinds of music for over 30 years.This is one of the best (live)albums EVER made.Do you like blues ?Get it.Do you like rock : get it.Are you a 17-year old shredder ?Try this at home...Free Music Review: rory at his finest
Hit: 5 Stars
rory kicks on this one. you have to play it to a friend who hasnt heard him before to keep rory alive. rory is best when he is playing live. if you like this one, check out the BBC live album.Free Music Review: Great Guitar player
Hit: 5 Stars
This cd is great! I never got to see him live but this cd rocksFree Music Review: A GREAT live record
Hit: 4 Stars
Long lost in the sands of time, Rory Gallagher might have been the best slide guitar player in the world after Duane Allman died (apologies to Johnny Winter, but it's true). But while Duane was doing circles and endless blues jams with Dickie Betts, Rory was touring with his crack band and developing his knife edged slide playing. And this album is a peak for both he and that band.Starting with the firey CRADLE ROCK Rory throws on the throttle and never lets up. Oh, he'll slow down like on I WONDER WHO and Tony Joe White's AS THE CROW FLIES (done acoustic on a National steel ala Mississippi Fred McDowell) but he'll crank it right back up on WHO'S THAT COMING and the album's centerpiece, the brilliant WALK ON HOT COALS, an version that smokes the studio take. And the man just drips music. You can hear it on the aformentioned CROW.
Rory hass three or four live albums available, but THIS is the one to get if you can only get ONE. If you like this, get the BBC SESSIONS.
The fact that so few people know Rory's music still saddens me. But I know this is one I reccommend to anyone who's interested in slide guitar or someone that no one else has heard of.
Free Music Review: Captures Rory Gallagher in peak form
Hit: 4 Stars
Let's just say that "Irish Tour," which has sold the most copies of any of the late Rory Gallagher's albums, captures one of the finest blues-rock guitarists of our time in peak form. This gem of a live recording was assembled from various gigs across Mr. Gallagher's troubled native Ireland in 1974, and he clearly relishes playing for the home crowd.
Mr. Gallagher and company churn through some longer versions of Walk on Hot Coals, Too Much Alcohol, and Who's That Coming, which allows Mr. Gallagher to improvise and experiment a bit. (There's not a bad number here, but why is Just a Little Bit not included on the CD version?)
I'm not prone to lavish adjectives on recordings, but there is more than enough intensity, passion, and virtuosity here to help the uninitiated learn what all the fuss is when it comes to Rory Gallagher's place in rock history.
Why four stars instead of five? It has nothing to do with Mr. Gallagher but rather a display of frustration about the omission of any bonus material!