"As you listen through this collective, you can see why so many big name guitarists, from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Brian May, Slash, Joe Bonamassa and Johnny Marr, credit Rory as their hero. Rory regularly switched styles from Blues to mainstream Rock mixing in Celtic riffing and sometimes stretching to the more Hard Rock drive you find in ‘Moonchild’. The stand out tracks for me are the epic ‘Ghost Blues’ (7 minutes 59 seconds), building from an acoustic base, the grooving ‘Bought and Sold’ and the vocal rich ‘Philby’.”
Today read another one of our great Lockdown album reviews, as Geoff C. gives you his take here on 'The Best Of Rory Gallagher', that's due to be released on Friday 9th October, of which 'Walk On Hot Coals' is today's Video Of The Day.