LOST GALLAGHER ALBUM REMASTERED BY NEPHEW
A lost 1978 album recorded by late Irish blues great RORY GALLAGHER has been unearthed and remastered by his nephew.
Gallagher’s Notes From San Francisco was shelved following a studio rift between the guitarist and producer Eliot Mazer, but it remained the property of the Taste frontman.
His nephew, Daniel, stumbled across the recording last year (10) and his father Donal, who oversees his brother’s estate, gave him permission to remaster the sessions.
Donal reveals Rory was keen to take another look at the lost album just before he died in 1995.
Spokesperson Carol Kaye tells WENN, "This is the Holy Grail for Rory’s fans." The new album comes with a live album taken from four December nights in 1979 at San Francisco’s The Old Waldorf.
Kaye adds, "Daniel Gallagher chose to add the live side to highlight why Rory chose to shelve the studio album and reduce his band back down to a three-piece. Rory, after seeing The Sex Pistols at Winterland during final mixes for his own album, was struck by the stark drama and blunt primitivism of pure punk.
"He had been saying that he wanted to get back to what he called ‘meat’n'potato rock’n'roll,’ a stripped-back primal raw immediacy hearkening back to his Taste days."
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