Rory Gallagher - Deuce ( Full Album )

Rory Gallagher - Deuce

Released November 1971
Recorded 1971
Studio Tangerine Studios, Dalston, London
Genre Blues rock
Length 46:30 (reissue 51:12)
Label
Polydor (original UK release) Atco (original US release)
Producer Rory Gallagher

1 I'm Not Awake Yet
2 Used To Be
3 Don't Know Where I'm Going
4 Maybe I Will
5 Whole Lot Of People
6 In Your Town
7 Should've Learnt My Lesson
8 There's A Light
9 Out Of My Mind
10 Crest Of A Wave
Bonus Track
11 Persuasion

William Rory Gallagher was an Irish musician and songwriter. He is known for his virtuosic style of guitar playing, and is often referred to as "the greatest guitarist you've never heard of". A number of guitarists, including Alex Lifeson of Rush, Brian May of Queen, and Eric Clapton, have cited Gallagher as an influence. He was voted as guitarist of the year by Melody Maker magazine in 1972, and listed as the 57th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2015.

In 1966, Gallagher formed the blues rock power trio Taste, which experienced moderate commercial success and popularity in the United Kingdom. After the dissolution of Taste, Gallagher pursued a solo career, releasing music throughout the 1970s and 1980s and selling more than 30 million records worldwide.

Gallagher's popularity declined throughout the 1980s due to changes within the music industry and poor health. He received a liver transplant in 1995 but died of complications later that same year in London at the age of 47.

Gallagher was born on 2 March 1948 to Daniel (Danny) and Monica Gallagher (née Roche) at the Rock Hospital in Ballyshannon in County Donegal, Ireland. Danny was from Derry, and served for a time in the Irish Army, while Monica was from County Cork.

Rory Gallagher's father, Danny, was employed by the Irish Electricity Supply Board (ESB), who were constructing Cathaleen's Fall hydroelectric power station on the River Erne above Ballyshannon. Danny Gallagher played the accordion and sang with the Inishowen Céilí Band in County Donegal.

His mother, Monica, sang and acted with the Abbey Players in Ballyshannon. The main theatre of the Abbey Arts Centre in Ballyshannon, where she used to perform, was renamed the Rory Gallagher Theatre in 2005.

In 1949, the family moved to Derry City, where Gallagher's younger brother Dónal was born later that year. Dónal would act as Gallagher's manager throughout most of his career.

In 1956, Gallagher, his mother, and his brother moved to Cork, where Gallagher attended North Monastery School.

Gallagher displayed musical aptitude at an early age. He taught himself how to play the ukulele, and received a guitar from his parents at age nine. He began performing at minor functions and won a cash prize in a talent contest when he was twelve that he used to buy a new guitar. Three years later, in 1963, he purchased a 1961 Fender Stratocaster for £100. This guitar became his primary instrument and was most associated with him during his career.

Gallagher was initially attracted to skiffle after hearing Lonnie Donegan on the radio. Donegan frequently covered blues and folk performers from the United States. He relied entirely on radio programmes and television. Occasionally, the BBC would play some blues numbers, and he slowly found some songbooks for guitar, where he found the names of the actual composers of blues pieces.

While still in school, playing songs by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, he discovered his greatest influence in Muddy Waters. He began experimenting with folk, blues, and rock music. Unable to find or afford record albums, Gallagher stayed up late to hear Radio Luxembourg and AFN where the radio brought him his only exposure to the actual songwriters and musicians whose music moved him most.
Gallagher playing mandolin. He owned a Martin Mandolin, which he fitted with an Ibanez pick-up.

Influences he discovered, and cited as he progressed, included Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy, and Lead Belly. Singing and later using a brace for his harmonica, Gallagher taught himself to play slide guitar. Further, throughout the next few years of his musical development, Gallagher began learning to play alto saxophone, bass, mandolin, banjo, and the Coral electric sitar with varying degrees of proficiency. By his mid-teens, he began experimenting heavily with different blues styles.

Gallagher began playing after school with Irish showbands, while still a young teenager. In 1963, he joined one named Fontana, a sextet playing the popular hit songs of the day.[28] The band toured Ireland and Great Britain, earning the money for the payments that were due on his Stratocaster guitar. Gallagher began to influence the band's repertoire, beginning its transition from mainstream pop music, skirting along some of Chuck Berry's songs and by 1965, he had successfully moulded Fontana into "The Impact", with a change in their line-up into an R&B group that played gigs in Ireland and Spain until disbanding in London. Gallagher left with the bassist Oliver Tobin and drummer Johnny Campbell to perform as a trio in Hamburg, Germany. In 1966, Gallagher returned to Ireland and, experimenting with other musicians in Cork, decided to form his own band.