Since 2008, this Page has sought to preserve and promote Rory Gallagher's musical legacy

The first solo album by Irish blues rock musician Rory Gallagher, released in 23 May 1971. The album was recorded in Advision Studios in London.

Rory Gallagher is the first solo album by Irish blues rock musician Rory Gallagher, released in 1971. It marked his departure from Taste.

All lyrics from Rory Gallagher album, popular Rory Gallagher songs with tracklist and information about album. Rory Gallagher "Rory Gallagher" (1971) album.

Official Rory Gallagher Twitter page for fans of his blues-rock. He decided on two Belfast musicians; drummer Wilgar Campbell, and bass guitarist Gerry McAvoy to be the core of his new power trio band.

In this respect Gallagher was an early model for Eric Clapton, whose solo career followed a similar path. Interestingly, Gallagher seems rather restrained throughout his debut, holding back the fret-burning in favor of strong songs. He opens up on the album's jazzy, seven-minute finale "Can't Believe It's You" which even features an alto sax, an instrument Gallagher all but abandoned on later albums.

BBC Sessions is a blues rock album by Rory Gallagher, released in 1999. The album was compiled from live recordings made at the BBC by Gallagher's brother Donal, and released posthumously. It was for Peel that Gallagher recorded the songs in this collection. To an artist who opposed releasing singles, the sessions collected here on this compilation proved invaluable in allowing his music to reach new fans Track listing. All tracks written by Rory Gallagher except where noted.

Official Rory Gallagher Twitter page for fans of his blues-rock music. Run by his record label to preserve & promote the musical legacy of this guitar legend.

There are two artists named Rory Gallagher: (1) Rory Gallagher (1948-1995) was a legendary Irish blues/rock guitarist, born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and raised in County Cork. Before finding solo fame he was a member of blues-rock band Taste. In 1972 he was voted Melody Maker's Top Musician of the Year, dethroning Eric Clapton.

When he was born William Rory Gallagher, in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, in 1948, his father was working for the Irish Electricity Supply Board, constructing a hydroelectric power plant on the River Erne above the town. Later, Rory, with his younger brother Dónal, moved to Cork with their mother, Monica, the boys attended the city’s North Monastery School. Prolific from the off, the newly-established unit were in the studio recording Gallagher’s first studio album within weeks of their initial rehearsals. Released in May 1971, the ensuing Rory Gallagher featured an eclectic mix of songs, ranging from hard-driving live favourites (‘Laundromat Blues’, ‘Sinner Boy’) to delicate, Bert Jansch-esque acoustic folk (‘Just The Smile’) and the jazzy ‘Can’t Believe It’s True’, but it was hungrily embraced by Gallagher’s expanding fanbase and yielded the first of seven consecutive gold discs.