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Track Listings
| 1. What's Going On |
| 2. Big Guns |
| 3. Tattoo'd Lady |
| 4. Sinnerboy |
| 5. Bad Penny |
| 6. Calling Card |
| 7. I'm Not Awake Yet |
| 8. Out On The Western Plain |
| 9. A Million Miles Away |
| 10. Kickback City |
| 11. Daughter Of The Everglades |
| 12. The Loop |
| 13. Shadow Play |
| 14. Goin' To My Hometown |
| 15. Bullfrog Blues |
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In fact it's Rory's live work that's key to understanding his appeal. Until this package arrived you would have been best picking up either Live In Europe or Irish Tour 74 to really sample the man in his purest form. This double set is liberally sprinkled with such moments though in rarer form and stretching back to his pre-solo days with power trio Taste. But the live favourites are all present and correct: ''Bullfrog Blues'', ''Going To My Hometown'' (with its frantic mandolin) and ''Messin' With The Kid''. Here we see how a life almost constantly on the road honed his stripped-down formula to something incredibly, joyfully raw. ''Bullfrog Blues'' features some of the rudest slide work ever committed to tape, and this from a man who was such a purist that he frowned on the use of any effects pedals.
Of course this set also gives us a fair representation of his studio work too. Raised on country blues and R 'n' B, Gallagher's technique and style was impeccable and also much more than a bar room 12-bar competence. As already mentioned he was adept on the mandolin and slide, and tracks such as ''Just The Smile'' (from his first album) and ''Out On The Western Plain'' reveal a sensitive acoustic technique. ''They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore'' even demonstrates a canny understanding of jazz shapes!
Any aficionado will grumble at omissions. This reviewer regrets the lack of ''Laundromat'' (from Live In Europe) and ''Cradle Rock'' (from Tattoo), yet as an overview it works just fine. If you fancy getting back to basics, Rory was, and always will be, yer man. --Chris Jones
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That night I discovered Rory Gallagher. He played some truly amazing songs (discover them for yourself) on steel guitar, acoustic guitar and his famous beat up stratocaster pictured on the cover of this album. It's hard to pigeon hole Gallagher, he was a superb bluesman (possibly as gifted as Clapton, but somehow more accessible) he was a great rock guitarist, some great ballads with some folky touches too, but most of all he was and remains, even against todays guitarists, a very unique artist.
I've focussed on Gallagher himself and thats a disservice to his band who were superb musicians in their own right, it's just that they were ecclipsed by his talent or maybe just complimented him perfectly. The compilation album offers a good selection of his more well known tracks, but there are many others to be savoured when you feel like listening to more of his work. In fact check him out on you tube..... I think there is something for most people on this album, so if you love real guitars, clean with no mega effects, you will thoroughly enjoy this record.
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