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Rory Gallagher - Defender (1987) {2018, 24-bit Remastered} CD-Rip

Rory Gallagher - Defender (1987) {2018, 24-bit Remastered} CD-Rip

BAND/ARTIST: Rory Gallagher

24 bit High Resolution re-mastering from the original 1/4 master tape by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham at Wired Masters in 2017. All of the 2018 CD studio remasters released by UMC contain updated sleeve insert photos and track comments. There is no remix meddling this time; these are as the original releases. Excellent sound quality throughout and the content needs no further comment other than it is Rory Gallagher doing what only he and his co-musicians could; a unique sound and a massive influence on many players that have followed.

Released five years after his last effort (an eternity for the prolific Irish blues guitar slinger who had been churning out at least an album a year throughout the '70s), Defender is another quality blues-rock offering. Although Gallagher is in fine tough form here and it was his debut release for his own indie label, there is little difference between this and some of his less stellar '70s albums like Top Priority and Photo-Finish. The pounding, guitar-heavy opener "Kickback City" sounds more like hairy rockers Bad Company than anything approaching the deep Chicago and country blues Gallagher dearly loved. The quality picks up substantially as the volume subsides on "Loanshark Blues," but by-the-books crunch-rockers like "Failsafe Day" and the unfortunately titled "Road to Hell" don't bode well for Gallagher moving out from an increasingly formulaic pigeonhole. There are a few corkers here like "Continental Op," a blazing riff that stands with Gallagher's best work and revisits his familiar cloak-and-dagger theme. The swampy, less abrasive "I Ain't No Saint" also pushes the quality up a few notches, as does his gritty version of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me to Talking," the bluesiest song on the disc and one of the few times he pulls out his greasy slide. "Seven Days" is the lone acoustic track and it's a good one, with piano and harp accompaniment and Gallagher singing like he means it as he takes the part of a criminal fleeing from the electric chair.

~ Hal Horowitz, All Music

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Rory Gallagher - Defender (1987) {2018, 24-bit Remastered} CD-Rip


Track List:

01. Kickback City [4:48]
02. Loanshark Blues [4:27]
03. Continental Op [4:38]
04. I Ain’t No Saint [4:58]
05. Failsafe Day [4:39]
06. Road to Hell [5:33]
07. Doing Time [4:07]
08. Smear Campaign [4:46]
09. Don’t Start Me Talkin [3:35]
10. Seven Days [5:14]
11. Seems to Me [4:52]
12. No Peace for the Wicked [4:26]

Personnel:
Rory Gallagher - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Vocals & Harmonica
Gerry McAvoy - Bass
Brendal O'Neill - Drums
Mark Feltham - Harmonica on Don't Start Me Talkin'
Lou Martin - Piano on Seven Days
Bob Andrew - Piano on Don't Start Me Talkin'
John Cooke - Other Keyboards

 



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