Rory Gallagher (1971)

Chino a écrit:

Derek a écrit:Je ne n'avais jamais fait le rapprochement entre les 2 photos...c'est vrai qu'il y'a un truc.
Excellent cet album de Joni Mitchell au passage

BORN in Ballyshannon County Donegal, Rory Gallagher played in show bands before forming Taste: the original, blues-influenced heavy-rock trio.

But the solo music that would follow, after Taste split in 1971, went way beyond heavy rock. These six albums, recorded, astonishingly, in a three-year period (1971-74) span Celtic folk, jazz, Dylan-inspired balladry and every variety of the blues.

Both his eponymous debut and the later Tattoo are darned near faultless in fusing these styles with a funky, sometimes even poppy, commerciality, although Gallagher had no real interest in being a “celebrity”.

He wrung extraordinary textures out of his 61 Stratocaster and, as these reissues underline, was a master of space and dynamics in the studio. His off-hand singing style and tracks such as the jailbreak tune In Your Town from Deuce are a clear influence on Thin Lizzy, among countless others.

By the time of his death, after a liver transplant in 1995, he’d had offers to join the likes of Deep Purple but perhaps only the Allman Brothers were really in his league.

Garbage Man a écrit:Ça me fera toujours marrer ce genre de chroniques avec un langage prolo avec des métaphores dignes de figurer dans l'almanach Vermot.
Ceci dit c'est mieux écrit que du Manoeuvre et plus drôle à lire.