1978
PHOTO FINISH - LP All tracks composed by Rory Gallagher.
Side one
- "Shin Kicker" – 4:01
- "Brute Force & Ignorance" – 4:15
- "Cruise On Out" – 4:41
- "Cloak & Dagger" – 5:19
- "Overnight Bag" – 4:50
Side two
- "Shadow Play" – 4:43
- "The Mississippi Sheiks" – 5:59
- "The Last of the Independents" – 3:57
- "Fuel to the Fire" – 6:20
CD bonus track
- "Early Warning" (bonus track) – 2:49
- "Juke Box Annie" (bonus track) – 3:17
Initial Release: October 1st, 1978 / Remastered Release 2018
Record Label: UMC
Location: Recorded at Dierks Studio, Cologne
Producer: Rory Gallagher & Alan O’Duffy
Featuring:
Rory Gallagher (Guitar, Vocals, Mandolin & Harmonica)
Gerry McAvoy (Bass)
Ted McKenna (Drums)
ALWAYS INTERESTING TO READ
Gerry McAvoy, Ted McKenna and Rory... A new band for a new album
Two years after ''Calling Card'' album, Rory is back from USA Tour and now sound much more heavy. Sure it was a big surprise to any of his faithful fans! The change of bandmates is a surprise too. It is time for him to come back to a 'power trio', exit excellent drummer Rod de'Ath and great pianist Lou Martin. Ted McKenna, the new drummer sure make the job
ALBUM REVIEW
SHIN KICKER - Sure one of my favorite of this album. How a human being can listen to that song without jumping on his feet and dance? Rory often used this song to enter on stage in the late '70s. Love the solo that ends the son g, this powerful drums and these lines of bass guitar. A pure laster piece t-you created guys!
BRUTE FORCE & IGNORANCE - You can take back your breath on this mid-tempo
CRUISE ON OUT - We now take a time-machine to be back In the sound of the 60's with this pure Rock'n'Roll. Guitar soli on solid drums and bass. What a tempo!!!
CLOAK & DAGGER - Slow rhythm for some kind in the southern lands. We can almost feel the sweat of the air.
OVERNIGHT BAG - A sad - but so beautiful - song about loneliness, that Rory probably experimented many times. ''My heart is (also) heavy like a sky full of rain'' when I listen to this song. Beautiful bass lignes from a very inspirited Gerry
SHADOW PLAY - What a song! another one where we can touch the real and absolute magic existing between those three bandmates!
MISSISSIPPI CHEIKS - Love that song! interesting to to find another version on ''San Francisco Notes'' with long glissando on the guitar's neck at the beginning
This album, with the two tracks that made its rating climb - 'ShadowPlay' (Rory's 5th most listened to track with 7,456,744 streams) and Shin Kicker (listened to 1,511,322 times) - has therefore become one of the most listened to with more than 11 million ''streams''; for the rest of the ''standard'' listening figures. ''Overnight Bag'', a very pretty ballad, closes the march, far behind, with 688,589 listens.
A famous XXL poster from October 3rd, 1978 concert in Offenbach Stadthalle, Germany ; sold for an unreasonable price of €444 ! ;-(
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