The Best Of (Remastered) Rory Gallagher

• 1 What's Going On 02:44
• 2 Shadow Play 04:43
• 3 Follow Me 04:37
• 4 Tattoo'd Lady 04:34
• 5 All Around Man 06:13
• 6 I Fall Apart 05:10
• 7 Daughter Of The Everglades 06:10
• 8 Calling Card 05:22
• 9 I'm Not Awake Yet 05:34
• 10 Just The Smile 03:39
• 11 Out Of My Mind 03:03
• 12 Edged In Blue 05:28
• 13 Philby 03:47
• 14 It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again 06:32
• 15 Crest Of A Wave 05:54
• 16 Bad Penny 04:03
• 17 Walk On Hot Coals 07:01
• 18 Blister On The Moon 03:26
• 19 Loanshark Blues 04:24
• 20 Bought And Sold 03:24
• 21 A Million Miles Away 06:55
• 22 Wheels Within Wheels 03:39
• 23 Seven Days 05:12
• 24 Ghost Blues 07:58
• 25 Cruise On Out 04:40
• 26 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 03:48
• 27 They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore 04:08
• 28 Moonchild 04:46
• 29 Jinxed 05:09
• 30 Catfish 08:04
• Total Runtime 02:30:07

Info zu The Best Of (Remastered)

Anknüpfend an die sensationellen Erfolge der „BLUES“-Collection (2019) und des zuletzt erschienenen Albums „Check Shirt Wizard – Live in ’77“, das wochenlang die Spitze der US-Bluescharts belegte, erscheint am 09. Oktober 2020 „The Best Of Rory Gallagher“.

„The Best Of Rory Gallagher“ dokumentiert Highlights aus sämtlichen Schaffensphasen der Gitarren-Ikone: Angefangen bei den Aufnahmen mit seiner bahnbrechenden ersten Band Taste aus dem Jahr 1969 bis zu seinem finalen Studioalbum „Fresh Evidence“ (1990). Die 2CD-Variante beinhaltet 30 Titel, wobei mit „(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction“, aufgenommen mit Jerry Lee Lewis, auch ein bislang unveröffentlichter Bonustrack enthalten ist.

Ein echter Schatz aus den RORY GALLAGHER Archives ist der bereits erwähnte Bonustitel „(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction“ – ein Outtake von Jerry Lee Lewis‘ berühmten „London Sessions“ aus dem Jahr 1973. Rory unterstützte dabei den legendären Rock & Roll-Pionier an der Gitarre und am Mikrofon. Ihre bislang unveröffentlichte Interpretation des Rolling Stones-Hits ist auf der 2CD- und den digitalen Versionen des Albums vertreten. Zudem erscheint eine limitierte 7“-Single, die auch den 2LP-Varianten beiliegt und sonst nur über die Online-Stores von uDiscover Music und The Sound of Vinyl erhältlich sein wird. Bei Vorbestellungen des Albums fungiert der Bonustitel schon jetzt als Instant-Grat-Track. Auf dem „Picture-Sleeve“ der 7“-Version ist ein seltenes Archivbild von RORY GALLAGHER und Jerry Lee Lewis zu sehen, das ebenfalls im Rahmen der 1973er „London Sessions“ entstanden ist. B-Seite ist der Titel „Cruise On Out“ (4:42) von Gallaghers Album „Photo Finish“ aus dem Jahr 1978.

Wenn es einen Künstler gibt, den man als „musician’s musican“ bezeichnen muss, dann Rory Gallagher: Er faszinierte und inspirierte zahllose Kollegen, galt ihnen als wichtigstes Vorbild und zentraler Referenzpunkt. Von Jimi Hendrix bis Eric Clapton, von Brian May (Queen) bis Johnny Marr (The Smiths) reicht diese Liste, auf der sich auch Namen wie Jimmy Page, Bob Geldof, The Edge, Ed Sheeran oder Slash finden (siehe ausgewählte Originalzitate unten im Text). Besonders für seine elektrisierenden Live-Shows gefeiert, starb er 1995 im Alter von nur 47 Jahren – doch haben seine bahnbrechenden Aufnahmen auch im seither vergangenen Vierteljahrhundert immer neue Bewunderer und Fans gefunden, weshalb er nach wie vor als einer der größten Gitarristen der Musikgeschichte gilt.

"Es gibt als ›Special Bonustrack‹, so das Info der Plattenfirma ›(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction‹. Die bislang unveröffentlichte packende Interpretation des Stones-Klassikers entstand 1973 bei den gemeinsamen ›London Sessions‹ mit Jerry Lee Lewis. Im Vergleich zum ›Best Of‹-Vorgänger Big Guns (24 Tracks) gibt es diesmal auch vier Taste-Klassiker, dazu auch reichlich aus Gallaghers Spätschaffen, natürlich einige seiner Dauerbrenner (...) und 14 Solonummern, die 2005 nicht enthalten waren." (Good Times)

Rory Gallagher

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Rory Gallagher
After a career cut short by illness and a premature death, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Rory Gallagher left his mark in the blues and rock worlds. His hard-charging, intensely rhythmic playing style on his 1961 Stratocaster still casts a long shadow over rock & roll: Queen's Brian May imitated not only his playing but his gear early on; he credits Gallagher with the root of his sound. Eric Clapton said it was Gallagher who got him "back into the blues." Johnny Marr acknowledges a great debt as well: After learning how to play the guitarist's classic Deuce album track-for-track at 13, he revealed Gallagher's influence throughout his career. Marr also said that he received mentorship and advice on his conduct on-stage and off. Even U2's the Edge and Slash sing his praises and credit his influence. While Gallagher didn't tour the U.S. very often, he lived on the stages of Europe. But he was well-known on Yankee shores for his marathon-length, no-holds-barred live shows at clubs and theaters across North America. While never a major presence on radio in the United States, Gallagher nonetheless racked up a handful of semi-hit singles with "Laundromat," "I Walk on Hot Coals," "Shadow Play," and "Philby," as well as a slew of acclaimed albums from 1971's Deuce and the remarkable Irish Tour in 1974, through Calling Card in 1976 and Top Priority in 1979. Even after the hits, Gallagher continued to pump out high-quality albums including 1982's Jinx and 1990's Fresh Evidence. Even after his accidental death on an operating table in 1995, Gallagher continued to win over new fans and influence artists of many stripes, including the mystery writer Ian Rankin, who created a posthumous compilation called The Continental Op in 2013 comprised of the guitarist's many songs about spies and suspense. Gallagher was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Irish Republic, on March 2, 1948. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cork City in the south, and at age nine he became fascinated with American blues and folk singers he heard on the radio. An avid record collector, he had a wide range of influences, including Leadbelly, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert King, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker. Gallagher would always try to mix some simple country blues songs into his recordings.

He began his recording career after moving to London, when he formed a trio called Taste. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 1969 in England and later picked up for U.S. distribution by Atco/Atlantic. Between 1969 and 1971, with producer Tony Colton behind the board, Gallagher recorded three albums with Taste before they split up. He began performing under his own name in 1971, releasing his 1970 debut, Rory Gallagher, for Polydor Records in the U.K. The album was picked up for U.S. distribution by Atlantic, and later that year he recorded Deuce, also released by Atlantic in the U.S.

His prolific output continued, as he followed up Deuce with Live in Europe (1972) and Blueprint and Tattoo, both in 1973. Irish Tour 1974, like Live in Europe, did a good job of capturing the excitement of his live shows on tape, and he followed that with Calling Card for Chrysalis in 1976, and Photo Finish and Jinx for the same label in 1978 and 1982. By this point, Gallagher had made several world tours, and he took a few years of rest from the road. He got back into recording and performing live again with the 1987 release (in the U.K.) of Defender. His last album, Fresh Evidence, was released in 1991 on the Capo/I.R.S. label. Capo was his own record and publishing company that he set up in the hopes of eventually exposing other great blues talents.

Some of Gallagher's best work on record wasn't under his own name; it's music he recorded with Muddy Waters on The London Sessions (Chess, 1972) and with Albert King on Live (RCA/Utopia, 1977). Gallagher made his last U.S. tours in 1985 and 1991, and admitted in interviews that he'd always been a guitarist who fed off the instant reaction and feedback a live audience can provide. In a 1991 interview, he said: "I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics."

Gallagher passed away from complications after a liver transplant on June 14, 1995, at age 47. In 2019, to mark what would have been Gallagher's 50th year of recording, his estate released the four-disc anthology Blues, featuring rare and unreleased recordings from the '70s to the '90s. (Richard Skelly, AMG)

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