Rory Gallagher: Calling Card (Chrysalis) ****
Mick Brown, Sounds, 9 October 1976
FOR RORY GALLAGHER to start making any radical departures from established style at this stage in the game would not only be out of character but also tantamount to musical hara-kiri or whatever the Irish equivalent may be.
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