Flying Back To The Blues With Rory Gallagher
Chris Welch, Metal Hammer, 1990
AMONG THE GREAT British guitar giants, there are, men with powerful egos, possessed of erratic genius. Then there is Rory Gallagher. And here is a modest, gentle man who has proved to be more consistent and has stayed closer to his roots than any of them.
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