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Rory Gallagher

Big Guns - The Very Best Of

RS: 4of 5 Stars

2005

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Gallagher (1948-1995) was the Irish Eric Clapton, without the hits. In his own late-Sixties Cream, the power trio Taste, and then as a prolific solo artist, Gallagher electrified his passion for Deep South blues with a feral attack spiked by vicious and precise bent-string screams. Some of his best recorded moments are, in fact, missing here ("Walk on Hot Coals," "Hands Off"). But every one of these Guns testifies to the road-warrior fire he brought to stage ("Bullfrog Blues") and studio ("Shadow Play") alike, to the end.

DAVID FRICKE

(Posted: Nov 17, 2005)

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