Rory Gallagher

Take the young twenty-somethings, amped up to the max with our Irishman already giving lessons to everyone with his six-string. Then take "Fresh Evidence," and after twenty years or so, we find ourselves in front of a magnificent album. Sure, Rory is already full of alcohol, his face is swollen, and the expression is "worn out"... but his hands, and neither his soul, have tired of making us listen to his crazy, captivating blues rock sound. Introverted and irascible enough to be loved by me without ifs and buts. I have bowed down only a few times in my life and never to people, but at his corner in Temple Bar, I gladly did so, toasting together. Jimi used to say this guy knew how to deliver. Just the Taste, "White," and "Irish Tour" and his blues will penetrate... your soul!