Rory Gallagher ( Рори Галлахер )

Первый альбом Галлахера, который я услышал - это был Blueprint. Купил его даже не зная, кто это и что это. Просто увидел у знакомого фарцовщика, посмотрел на обложку, на фотографии музыкантов и понял, эти ребята плохую музыку играть не будут. С тех пор Рори Галлахер постоянно в первой десятке моих приоритетов.
Замечательный музыкант! Очень жаль, что его уже нет на этой земле.

Полгода прошло, как я влезла в эту тему - а актуальности она, к счастью (моему), не утратила. Уж давно сперли у меня в лифте на Новом Арбате плейер вместе с галлахеровским BBC, Wheels Within Wheels и Muddy Waters Sessions (или как его, бишь, звали?)... С тех пор успела собрать почти всю официальную дискографию Рори, оставшись при однажды сложившемся впечатлении, что there's no one like him. Не было ни одного альбома, который не оставил бы непохожее на другие впечатление. Хотя пока Rory Gallagher, Deuce, Tattoo и Wheels остаются любимыми... А нет ли более или менее доступных его бутлегов, особливо концертных? На разных сайтах доводилось встречать некоторые названия, но не более того.

Предстоящий ночной эфир Владимира Ильинского (ночь с субботы на воскресенье, после новостей в 00.00 до 02.00) будет посвящен Рори Галлахеру. Предполагается разговор о Taste и первых сольных альбомах. Координаты эфира - "Эхо Москвы", частота 91,2.

Rory Gallagher
Big Guns: The Very Best of Rory Gallagher
Sony/BMG/Legacy
2005


Rory Gallagher is the unsung hero of contemporary blues-rock guitar. Unlike his peers who compromised their loyalty to the genre for the sake of commercial acceptance Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page for example, the feisty Irishman wouldn’t allow any singles to be culled from his album. In contrast to the stylistic jazz-rock leaps of Jeff Beck, Gallagher remained a steadfast devotee of flinty blues-based rock throughout his career. And unlike the shooting star that was Jimi Hendrix, even though Rory died a premature death—at 51 due to a liver ailment—his career entailed close to thirty years and over a dozen studio and live albums.

Despite the reissue of his entire catalog in the late 90’s and early new millennium, plus a double-disc BBC package compiled by brother Donal (who participated in the production of the new set via Capo Records), the Rory Gallagher discography includes no legitimate authorized anthology of any sort until this recently-released two-CD deluxe package.

Ordained in colorful digi-pak with glossy graphics the detail of which is the work of the devoted fan of the man, Big Guns is the kind of set that serves equally well to introduce the novice to the strengths of Gallagher and provide a handy resource of the fan who simply wants to enjoy his deeply felt music from a different perspective (and savor the alternate takes and unreleased material here). The digital remastering of the tracks in 5.1 surround sound supplies an asset the previous reissues lacked (through no fault of the producers there---that’s just how fast technology improves now to include Super Audio CD sound).

Gallagher’s music was a direct and logical extension of the electrified likes of Muddy Waters when he moved from the Mississippi delta to the windy environs of Chicago. Little wonder the Irishman’s participation on the blues buddha’s London Sessions is some of the most prominent and empathetic. Even with his early power trio Taste (who could use some more extensive archiving themselves), represented here with a handful of tracks, the guitarist/songwriter didn’t rely all that heavily on pure riffing: like the title song of this collection and “Bad Penny,” the material is built on guitar figures inimitably his own.

Tough muscular progressions, such “Daughter of the Everglades,” lend themselves not just to extended live improvisation, but, importantly, the artful embellishment via fills and harmonics, that make for complete studio takes which stand on their own merits

The virtues that further legitimize Gallagher’s originals include a plainspoken language in the lyrics like that of “Kickback City.” Never one to descend to cliché in any form, Rory instead restores the truth to common phrases such as “They Don’t Make Them Like You Anymore”), Gallagher had a broad enough grasp of his roots (see 2003’s Wheels Within Wheels) to include the acoustic folk textures that often decorated songs such as Leadbelly’s “Out on the Western Plain” with such subtlety. The electricity in his amplifiers was just a means to the end of resounding impact for Gallagher: as “Goin’ to My Hometown” will attest, the real power came from Rory’s own passion for what he did, whether he had a solid or hollow body instrument in his hands. Taste’s “Born on the Wrong Side of Time,” demonstrates how absolutely haunting Gallagher could be, while “A Million Miles Away” is similarly affecting, in large part because of the clarity and detail contained in the mix of bass/drums/piano.

The inclusion of Lou Martin and his keyboards had as much (or perhaps more) to do with having another musicians to play with as add color to his group’s sound (hear especially “Calling Card”), but the presence of a fourth man served both purposes; as displayed on the bass and drums workout during “Bullfrog Blues, ” Rory Gallagher commanded as much heartfelt commitment from his sidemen as he did from his audience.

For all the grit at his command—”an essential component of his personality—”his music contained a melodic most clearly evident in his slide playing that, as sharp-edged as it was, epitomized the bittersweet vulnerability that was on display in songs like “Shadow Play.”

The antithesis of flash and celebrity, customarily dressed in flannel shirt and jeans, Rory Gallagher, stormed the stage and inhabited it as if a man possessed. And possessed he was by a devotion to the blues that perhaps has no equal among contemporary guitarists and musicians. Just short of two hours, this set of CDs is a potent antidote to celebrity superficiality as it ever was.


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Tracks: CD1: Big Guns; What's Going On; Tattoo'd Lady; Bad Penny; Shadow Play; Kickback City; Bourbon; Sinner Boy; Used to Be; Goin' to My Hometown; Bullfrog Blues; Messin' With the Kid. CD2: The Loop; Born on the Wrong Side of Time; A Million Miles Away; Calling Card; Out on the Western Plain; Lonesome Highway; Just the Smile; I'm Not Awake Yet; Daughter of the Everglades; I'll Admit You're Gone; The King of Zydeco; They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore.


Personnel: Rory Gallagher: guitar, harmonica, brass and vocals; Gerry McAvoy: bass; Richard McCrackin’: bass; Brendan O’Neill: drums; John Wilson: drums; Rod de’Ath: drums; Ted Mckenna: drums; Wilgar Campbell: drums;Lou Martin: keyboards; John Cooke: keyboards; Mark Feltham: hamonica; Geraint Watkins: piano and accordion; John Earle, Ray Bevis, Dick Perry: brass; Lonnie Donegan: guitar and vocal on “Hometown”

2pempe:
Этот двойничок, не знаю как у Вас, но в московиях, давно в продаже. Причём во обеих вариантах: гибрид супераудио, и обычный компакт( оба варианта в слип-кейсах)
Симпатичная подборка. Идеальная для первого знакомства с ирландским блюзрокером.

Title: Rory Gallagher - The Definitive Collection - 3 DVD Box Set
Label: Wienerworld Ltd
Format: DVD
Release Date: 28 November 2005
Duration: 9 hours

Rory Gallagher is the man who, without question, spearheaded and influenced the entire Irish rock movement. Rory’s music was his religion. The conviction and sincerity with which he projected it has assured him a place in rock history and earned him critical acclaim as one of the greatest torchbearers of driving, effusive rock and blues.

Released to coincide with the 10th Anniversary year of his death (14.6.95) – this 3 DVD live in concert box set is a testament to one of the greatest men of rock.

Track Listing:
DVD #1
Studio-L Cologne 1976
Pistol Slapper Blues, Too Much Alcohol, Out On The Western Plain, Bankers Blues, Rag Mama Rag, Nothing But The Devil, Goin’ To My Hometown, I Take What I Want, Calling Card, Secret Agent, Do You Read Me, Bought And Sold, Country Mile, Jacknife Beat, Boogie

Grugahalle 1977
Messin’ With The Kid, I Take What I Want, A Garbage Man, Moonchild, Secret Agent, Calling Card, Out On The Western Plain, Barley and Grape Rag, Tattooed Lady, Souped Up Ford, Bullfrog Blues, Bought And Sold

Jam Session Wiesbaden 1979 with Frankie Miller
Bullfrog Blues, Walkin’ The Dog, Sea Cruise, Around And Around, Roll Over Beethoven

DVD #2
1982 Loreley
Way Ward Child, Double Vision, Big Guns, What in the World, Nadine, Follow Me, Bad Penny, Borbon, Jinxed, Moonchild, Brute Force and Ignorance, The Devil Made Me Do It, Western Plain, Ride on Red, Philby, Shadow Play, Skin Hicker, Peter Gun

Jam Session 1982
Knocking on Heaven’s Door, I’m Ready, Medley: Lucille/Dust My Broom/I’m Movin’/Be Ba Be Lua, Slow Down, I Have The Blues

DVD ‘#3
1979 Wiesbaden
Shinekicker, Last Of The Independents, Off The Handle, Bought And Sold, Shadow Play, Million Miles Away, Hell Cat, Western Plain, Too Much Alcohol, Going To My Hometown, Tattooed Lady, Secret Agent, Fat Albert Rofunda, Might Be

Cologne 1990
Continental O.P, Don’t Start Me Talkin, Mean Disposition, Kid Gloves, Middle Name, King Of Zydeco, Out On The Western Plain, Empire State Express, The Loop, Garbage Man, My Baby She Left Me, Shadow Play, Shin Kicker, Born Under A Bad Sign (with Jack Bruce tbc), I’m Ready (with Jack Bruce tbc), Politician (with Jack Bruce tbc), Bull Frog Blues

У меня есть два диска Рори Галахера (Галагера): 1-й двойной альбом "ВВС Sessions" и второй "Wheels within wheels". "ВВС Sessions" просто отпад, а "Wheels within wheels" так себе.

>У меня есть два диска Рори Галахера (Галагера)

Только не Галагера, пожалуйста :-) Он ирландец, а "h" в этой фамилии озвончают только англичане...

>1-й двойной альбом "ВВС Sessions" и второй "Wheels
>within wheels". "ВВС Sessions" просто отпад, а
>"Wheels within wheels" так себе.

WWW все-таки посмертный сборник, более того - почти полностью акустический, из неизданных вещей, в том числе чисто фолковых - его просто не стоит воспринимать, как обычный номерной альбом Рори. (Anyway, I love it).

2Jude V:

>Только не Галагера, пожалуйста :-) Он ирландец,
>а "h" в этой фамилии озвончают только англичане...

А братаны Галла.еры себя озвончают?

Rory Gallagher
(born March 2,1949, Ballyshannon,Ireland)
I the early 1970s,blues guitarist Rory Gallagher was Ireland’s answer to Johnny Winter. Gallagher’s passion for loud, power-packed bottleneck riffs and stinging solos –and his commitment to American blues at a time when the blues-rock flood of the mid-‘60s was starting to recede – endeared him to diehard fans in Europe and the USA.
Gallagher begun his career in the early ‘60s by playing guitar in an Irish cover band called the Fontana Showband, later called the Impact. When the band broke up in 1965, Gallagher formed Taste, a blues-based rock trio that included bass player Charlie McCracken and drummer John Wilson. The group released a few pedestrian albums in Great Britain before breaking up in 1971. Gallagher then became a solo artist and released his self-titled debut on the Polydor label than same year. The album was warmly received both in England and the USA. Contributing to MUDDY WATER’S London Session album in 1972 increased his reputation among American blues fans. Gallagher spent the rest of the ‘70s trying to broaden his support with a batch of albums on the Chrysalis and Polydor labels, nearly all of which contained recycled blues guitar lines and figures. Gallagher all but faded from the American blues scene in the ‘80s, but in 1990 he staged a comeback with his album Fresh Evidence.

Essential Listening:
Irish Tour ‘74/Polygram (PD 9501)
The London Muddy Waters Session /MCA-Chess (9298)
Fresh Evidence / Polygram

THE BIG BOOK OF BLUES by Robert Santelli

2john lee hooker
спасибо, приобрел

Прослушал IRISH TOUR.
Усилено пытаюсь найти различия с Гари Муром.
Разве что нот меньше играет. Остальное тоже самое. Особенно подход ритм-секции к аранжу... Один в один.

2SergeK:

>Прослушал IRISH TOUR.
>Усилено пытаюсь найти различия с Гари Муром.
>Разве что нот меньше играет. Остальное тоже самое.
>Особенно подход ритм-секции к аранжу... Один в один.

А как насчет песенки Гари Мура I've Got The Blues For You? Когда там идет соло я всегда подпеваю Гари наш дворовый вариант:..."Потярял я любовь и чевчонку свою, вы постойте, а я поищу".Клёёёёвоооооо!

Точняк, Витюха!!! Содрал Гарик нашу девчонку и любовь её в ноль! Мы дворовые блюзмены еще выставим ему счет за эту мапупу"

Рэбята! Приведите, пожалуйста список альбомов Рори, которые нужно заиметь в первую очередь. Я терпеть не могу Гарри Мура, с коим ранее здесь было сравнение. Ну, чтоб не напороться на его подобие.
Tatoo и Blueprint мне понравились.

Rory Gallagher 1971
Deuce 1971
Defender 1988
Fresh Evidence 1988

А Гэри Мура не надо бояться,нет его там.

Спасибо, papan!
Хорошо, что Гэри там нету! Будем искать!
А как Вам эти диски:
Jimmy Rip - Way Past Blue
Glarence Brown - Back To Bogalusa
в смысле хороши ли?
Мне понравилось, поэтому хочется узнать про другие альбомы эти исполнителей.
Спасибо!

2papan:

>А Гэри Мура не надо бояться,нет его там.

Вот-вот. Или как оно там в блогах всяких пишется - +1?

Еще добавлю к первоочередному списку Against The Grain и Calling Card.

2Walrus:

>Спасибо, papan!
>Хорошо, что Гэри там нету! Будем искать!
>А как Вам эти диски:
>Jimmy Rip - Way Past Blue
>Glarence Brown - Back To Bogalusa
>в смысле хороши ли?
>Мне понравилось, поэтому хочется узнать про другие
>альбомы эти исполнителей.
>Спасибо!
Jimmy Rip - Way Past Blue не слышал.Вроде там Мик Джаггер дудит на гармошке.А сам Рип играет на гитаре у Джаггера на его лучшем сольном альбоме(предпоследнем).Мне интересно,что за альбом,на что похоже?
Glarence Brown - Back To Bogalusa.У Клареса "Большеротого " Брауна можно (вернее нужно) брать всё.Очень хороший дяденька,мультиинструменталист,исполнитель в разных жанрах и стилях,приблежённых к блюзу.