Check Shirt Wizard - Live In '77 (Remastered) Rory Gallagher

• 1 Do You Read Me 05:50
• 2 Moonchild 05:47
• 3 Bought And Sold 07:27
• 4 Calling Card 06:46
• 5 Secret Agent 06:37
• 6 Tattoo'd Lady 06:27
• 7 A Million Miles Away 07:11
• 8 I Take What I Want 05:50
• 9 Walk On Hot Coals 07:55
• 10 Out On The Western Plain 04:43
• 11 Barley & Grape Rag 02:36
• 12 Pistol Slapper Blues 02:41
• 13 Too Much Alcohol 04:20
• 14 Going To My Hometown 05:33
• 15 Edged In Blue 05:56
• 16 Jack-Knife Beat 08:47
• 17 Souped-Up Ford 06:22
• 18 Bullfrog Blues 09:51
• 19 Used To Be 04:43
• 20 Country Mile 05:46
• Total Runtime 02:01:08

Info zu Check Shirt Wizard - Live In '77 (Remastered)

Als Rory Gallagher 1976 sein sechstes Studioalbum Calling Card veröffentlichte, galt er schon seit einigen Jahren als einer der besten Gitarristen der Welt. Der Melody Maker kürte ihn schon 1971 – noch vor Clapton – zum Top-Gitarristen der Welt, er jammte mit den Rolling Stones und baute sich vor allem mit seinen beiden Live-Platten Live In Europe und Irish Tour ’74 weltweit die Reputation eines begnadeten Bühnenkünstlers auf. Er beeinflusste Jimi Hendrix ebenso wie Brian May, auch ein Johnny Marr sagt gerne und oft, dass er ohne Rory Gallagher niemals eine Gitarre in die Hand genommen hätte.

Mit diesem Prätext dürfte es niemanden ernstlich wundern, dass es ausgerechnet seine Live-Scheiben waren, mit denen der Ire seine größten Erfolge erzielte und überschwänglichsten Lobeshymnen einheimste. Erst auf der Bühne, so schien es insbesondere in seinen goldenen Siebzigern, konnte er zeigen, wie gut er wirklich war. Fans des Gitarrenhelden dürfte diese Nachricht hier deswegen umso mehr freuen: Mit Check Shirt Wizard – Live in ’77 erscheint am 6. März 2020 ein nie zuvor veröffentlichtes Live-Dokument Gallaghers!

Mehr noch: Dieses Tondokument deckt eine Periode in seinem Schaffen ab, die bislang nicht dokumentiert wurde. 20 Aufnahmen, allesamt unveröffentlicht, zusammengesetzt aus Konzerten in London, Brighton, Sheffield und Newcastle im Rahmen einer UK-Tournee, die Rory Gallagher zu Beginn des Jahres 1977 im Zuge seines Albums Calling Card gab: Hier strahlen Klassiker wie Moonchild oder Do You Read Me von ebenjenem Album in ungeahnter Größe, Raffinesse und Ehrlichkeit. Ebenfalls auf diesem 3-LP-Set: Stücke wie A Million Miles Away oder Tattoo’d Lady, dargeboten mit dieser für ihn typischen Hingabe und diesem Furor, der seine Gitarre in ein Statement verwandelte.

Gemixt von den Original-Tapes aus Rorys Archiv, gemastert in den Abbey Road Studios und veredelt von einem Artwork des jungen irischen Graffitikünstlers Vincent Zara, der bekannt für seine Rory-Konterfei überall in Irland ist, schließt Check Shirt Wizard – Live in ’77 eine Lücke in dieser besonderen Diskografie. Und zeigt den 1995 verstorbenen Wegbereiter in einer Hochform, die Jimi Hendrix auf die Frage, wie es sich so als bester Gitarrist der Welt anfühle, zu folgender legendärer Antwort brachte: „Keine Ahnung, fragt Rory Gallagher.“ Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte.

"Wenn ein BOB GELDOF, der als ganz großer Bewunderer von RORY GALLAGHER gilt, einst zu dem irischen Gitarristen ehrfürchtig feststellte: „Es ist nicht übertrieben, zu behaupten, dass, was HENDRIX für den elektrischen Blues einbrachte, Rory genau das Gleiche im irischen Kontext leistet“, dann bringt diese Auswahl von RORY GALLAGHER-Liveaufnahmen der vier 77er-Konzerte auf „Check Shirt Wizard – Live In '77” den endgültigen Beweis für diese Behauptung – und das auch noch in einer so bisher noch nie dagewesenen Sound-Qualität. Chapeau!" (Thoralf Koß, musikreviews.de)

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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