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Title: Glimpses of passion from the short life of a bluesman
Review: Rory Gallagher's death on June 14, 1995 at age 46 was, indeed, a blue day for the blues. This posthumous collection presents the best from his early days with Taste in 1970, through to his last major release, 1990's Fresh Evidence. While his untimely death was tragic, the real tragedy was that he never caught on with American audiences in a big way. On the brink of greatness -- a la Eric Clapton -- in the mid-1970's, Gallagher's U.S. followers failed to obtain critical mass, and he slid into relative obscurity. Not so in Europe, where fans recognized a passion in his electric blues riffing and composition that even Clapton could not match. This CD will provide the listener with glimpses of his greatness, sampled from albums that sold some 30 million copies worldwide during his lifetime. END
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