The Best Of Rory Gallagher to be released in a variety of formats and tracklistings, on CD, vinyl and digital
Formats: 2LP black vinyl, limited 2LP clear vinyl, 2CD, 1CD, Digital HD, Digital Standard
Release Date: Friday 9th October 2020
Label: UMC
Following the commercial and critically acclaimed success of the recent albums Blues (2019) and the three-week running No.1 album on the Billboard Blues Chart Check Shirt Wizard – Live in ’77 (2020), UMC is pleased to present a new Rory Gallagher best of collection entitled The Best Of Rory Gallagher on Friday 9th October 2020. The comprehensive compilation includes Rory’s most iconic songs compiled from across his recording career, including tracks from Rory’s seminal first band Taste (1969) through to his final studio album Fresh Evidence (1990). The album will be released as a 2CD set featuring 30 tracks including a previously unreleased collaboration with Jerry Lee Lewis, and will also be released as a 2-disc black vinyl and direct-to-consumer limited clear 2LP, plus a 15-track single CD, as well as digital HD and digital standard.
Unearthed from the Rory Gallagher Archives is a special bonus track (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – a rare outtake taken from Jerry Lee Lewis’ famous 1973 London Sessions featuring Rory singing and playing the Rolling Stones’ classic alongside the legendary Lewis. The previously unreleased rarity is featured on the 2CD version and digital versions of the album, and available as a limited edition direct-to-consumer 7” vinyl single. “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is available as an instant grat track with pre-orders of the album. The 7” inch picture sleeve features a rare archive photo of Rory and Jerry Lee Lewis from Jerry Lee’s 1973 London Sessions. The B-side features Cruise On Out (4:42) taken from Rory’s critically acclaimed album Photo Finish (1978).
If ever there was a “musician’s musician” then that accolade belongs to Rory Gallagher. Renowned for his blistering live performances and highly respected for his dedication to his craft, he died in 1995, aged just 47. His reputation has continued to flourish in the years since. Indeed, some of rock’s most seminal figures, from Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani to Joe Bonamassa, Queen’s Brian May to The Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Slash of Guns N Roses to The Edge of U2, have cited him as an influence. Rory remains a touchstone for all would-be guitar heroes in the 21st Century.
When asked “How does it feel to be the best guitarist in the world,” Hendrix replied,
“I don’t know, why don’t you go and ask Rory Gallagher.” – Jimi Hendrix
“The man who got me back into the blues.” – Eric Clapton
“There are a million guys who sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, but I never heard anybody who could really pull off sounding like Rory Gallagher.” – Slash
“As soon as I heard Cradle Rock, I was hooked. I thought, ‘This is what I want to be when I grow up.” – Joe Bonamassa
“I really liked Rory, he was fine guitarist and singer and lovely man.” – Jimmy Page
“He was just a magician, he’s one of the very few people of that time who could make his guitar do anything. It just seemed to be magic. I remember looking at that battered Stratocaster and thinking “how does that come out of there?” – Brian May
“The man who changed my musical life was Rory Gallagher, I picked up a guitar because of him.” – Johnny Marr
“A beautiful man and an amazing guitar player. He was a very sensitive man and a great musician.” – The Edge
“An amazing player, very spirited… he had a particular sound using that Stratocaster and he really got it because of the brute force in the way that he played, he just had such a passion about it.”
– Joe Satriani
“Rory was the one to measure yourself against. He was a real credit to music and pushed it to another level altogether.” – Peter Frampton
FORMATS AND TRACK LISTING
30 Track / 2CD Set
CD1
1 Taste What’s Going On
2 Rory Gallagher Shadow Play
3 Rory Gallagher Follow Me
4 Rory Gallagher Tattoo’d Lady
5 Rory Gallagher All Around Man
6 Rory Gallagher I Fall Apart
7 Rory Gallagher Daughter Of The Everglades
8 Rory Gallagher Calling Card
9 Rory Gallagher I’m Not Awake Yet
10 Rory Gallagher Just The Smile
11 Rory Gallagher Out Of My Mind
12 Rory Gallagher Edged In Blue
13 Rory Gallagher Philby
14 Taste It’s Happened Before, It’ll Happen Again
15 Rory Gallagher Crest Of A Wave
CD2
1 Rory Gallagher Bad Penny
2 Rory Gallagher Walk On Hot Coals
3 Taste Blister On The Moon
4 Rory Gallagher Loanshark Blues
5 Rory Gallagher Bought & Sold
6 Rory Gallagher A Million Miles Away
7 Rory Gallagher Wheels Within Wheels
8 Rory Gallagher Seven Days
9 Rory Gallagher Ghost Blues
10 Rory Gallagher Cruise On Out
11 Jerry Lee Lewis ft. Rory Gallagher (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
12 Rory Gallagher They Don’t Make Them Like You Anymore
13 Rory Gallagher Moonchild
14 Rory Gallagher Jinxed
15 Taste Catfish
2LP Black Vinyl / 2LP D2C Clear Vinyl Exclusive
Includes the 7” black vinyl single ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ ft. Jerry Lee Lewis and Rory Gallagher
Side A
Rory Gallagher Bad Penny
Rory Gallagher Shadow Play
Rory Gallagher I Fall Apart
Rory Gallagher Calling Card
Side B
Taste What’s Going On
Rory Gallagher All Around Man
Rory Gallagher A Million Miles Away
Rory Gallagher Just The Smile
Side C
Rory Gallagher Seven Days
Rory Gallagher Jinxed
Rory Gallagher Edged In Blue
Rory Gallagher Philby
Side D
Rory Gallagher Walk On Hot Coals
Rory Gallagher Tattoo’d Lady
Rory Gallagher Crest Of A Wave
15 Track / 1CD
Bad Penny
Shadow Play
I Fall Apart
Calling Card
What’s Going On
All Around Man
A Million Miles Away
Just The Smile
Seven Days
Jinxed
Edged In Blue
Philby
Walk On Hot Coals
Tattoo’d Lady
Crest Of A Wave
Jerry Lee Lewis featuring Rory Gallagher
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction / 7” single D2C Exclusive
For further information please contact:
Peter Noble at Noble PR Consultancy
+44 794 908 9762, peter@noblepr.co.uk
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