Rory Gallagher (Album)
Occupation
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Rory Gallagher is the solo debut of the eponymous Irish blues rock musician. The album was released in 1971 on Polydor.
Music history
After the farewell concert of button in Belfast's Queen's University at New Year's Eve 1970, just four months after her acclaimed performance at the legendary Isle of Wight Festival, the paths of Rory Gallagher, bassist Richard McCracken and drummer John Wilson parted.
With the words " Wilgar will sit on the drums. Do you feel like? " To Gallagher asked a little later the Belfast bassist Gerry McAvoy at a surprising phone call, whether he would not like " to come to England and play a little. " In the spring of 1971, Gallagher then took with him and the drummer Wilgar Campbell, the McAvoy already knew from the music scene of his hometown in Northern Ireland, in the London Studios Advision his debut album under his own name. Another musician was keyboardist Vincent Crane, then the main job at Atomic Rooster active on two tracks of the album, Wave Myself Goodbye and I'm Not Surprised, one of the party.
With the exception of the opener Laundromat with its distinctive blues-rock riff had been rehearsed, the ten songs of the album to the studio date in a rehearsal room in the basement of a music store in London's Fulham. Laundromat was introduced by Gallagher only towards the end of the recording sessions and as the other songs recorded live. The title should be one of the most famous songs of the Irish in addition to Hands Up and Sinner Boy, which has already found himself in a live version on the key album Live At The Isle Of Wight.
The digitally remastered CD edition includes the Muddy Waters classic Gypsy Woman and Otis Rush's It Takes Time as bonus tracks two 1999 first published title from the 1971 studio sessions. Muddy Waters it should occasion of the recordings to its London Muddy Waters Sessions come to a musical collaboration for Gallagher in the same year.
Title list
Contributors
- Rory Gallagher - vocals, guitar, alto saxophone, harmonica, mandolin
- Gerry McAvoy - Bass
- Wilgar Campbell - drums, percussion
- Vincent Crane - Piano ( Tracks 4 and 9)