Product Description
Rare Actual 1974 Japanese First Pressing ~ Vinyl & Silver Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Still In Top Condition!! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese. The Most Popular & Highly Acclaimed Album From The Greatest Blues / Rock Guitarist There Was ~ Rory Gallagher! Captured Live In His War-Torn Home Country, ‘Irish Tour ’74’ Features Material From Some Of Rory’s Best-Ever Recorded Gigs. Double Live Blues Bliss!!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their beautiful packaging and premium sound quality (which explains why American audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab chose to have their highly regarded pressings manufactured in Japan). Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Cradle Rock
I Wonder Who (Who’s Gonna Be Your Sweet Man)
Tattoo’d Lady
Side 2:
Too Much Alcohol
As The Crow Flies
A Million Miles Away
Side 3:
Walk On Hot Coals
Who’s That Coming?
Side 4:
Back On (My Stompin’ Ground)
Just A Little Bit
AMG –
The energy crackling from stage to stalls and back again packs an intensity that few live albums can match. The companion piece to director Tony Palmer's documentary of the same name, Irish Tour 1974 was recorded that January in Belfast, Dublin, and Cork at a time when precious few performers -- Irish or otherwise -- were even dreaming of touring the trouble-torn island. Northern Ireland, in particular, was a rock & roll no-go area, but Gallagher never turned his back on the province and was rewarded with what history recalls as some of his best-ever gigs. Irish Tour 1974, in turn, captures some of his finest known live recordings and, while it's impossible to tell which songs were recorded where, across nine in-concert recordings (plus one after-hours jam session, "Back on My Stompin' Ground"), the energy crackling from stage to stalls and back again packs an intensity that few live albums -- Gallagher's own others among them -- can match. Highlights of a stunning set include dramatic takes on Muddy Waters' "I Wonder Who" and Tony Joe White's "As the Crow Flies," a raw acoustic rendering that is nevertheless totally electrifying. A frustratingly brief snip of the classic Shadows-style "Maritime" (aka "Just a Little Bit") plays the album out in anthemic style and then, of course, there's "Walk on Hot Coals," a marathon excursion that posterity has decreed Gallagher's most popular and accomplished statement -- a status that Irish Tour 1974 does nothing to contradict. It's foolish playing favorites, however. Even more than Gallagher's earlier (1972) Live in Europe album, Irish Tour 1974 confirms Gallagher not simply as the greatest bluesman Ireland ever knew, but as one of the island's greatest-ever performers.