Rory Gallagher Live DVD Boxset

Eagle Vision will release a precedent-setting boxed set of Rory Gallagher—Live At Rockpalast: 5 Concerts 1976-1990—on August 7 that contains nine hours of footage on three DVDs. Gallagher (1948-1995) scaled international heights of electric blues fame when he married hard rock to urban blues in the course of a brilliant career that tragically ended at age 47 from complications of liver surgery.

Starting with power trio Taste in 1969 London, his fetish for American blues artists like Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Albert King, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker turned into an obsession. Three Taste albums later, he ventured solo in 1971 to fully explore his blues fascination. Fourteen albums later, he was hailed as one of the finest living practitioners of the art form. He was so respected that two of his heroes, Muddy Waters and Albert King, asked him to record with them and he did on Waters' The London Sessions and King's Live, where he proved himself an exemplary blues sideman.

These three discs show Gallagher at the height of his artistic powers on a series of German television shows between '76 and '90.

Tracklisting: WDR Studio L - 1976 1. Pistol Slapper Blues 2. Too Much Alcohol 3. Out On The Western Plain 4. Banker's Blues 5. Rag Mama Rag 6. Nothing But The Devil 7. Going To My Hometown 8. I Take What I Want 9. Calling Card 10. Secret Agent 11. Do You Read Me 12. Bought And Sold 13. Country Mile 14. Jacknife Beat 15. Boogie

Grugahalle Essen - 1977 1. Messin' With The Kid 2. I Take What I Want 3. Garbage Man 4. Moonchild 5. Secret Agent 6. Calling Card 7. Out On The Western Plain 8. Barley and Grape Rag 9. Tattoo'd Lady 10. Souped Up Ford 11. Bullfrog Blues 12. Bought And Sold

Wiesbaden 1979 1. Shin Kicker 2. The Last Of The Independents 3. Off The Handle 4. Bought And Sold 5. Shadow Play 6. A Million Miles Away 7. Hell Cat 8. Out On The Western Plain 9. Too Much Alcohol 10. Goin' To My Hometown 11. Tattoo'd Lady 12. Secret Agent 13. Roberta

Jam Session Wiesbaden 1979 1. Bullfrog Blues 2. Walkin' The Dog 3. Sea Cruise 4. Around And Around 5. Roll Over Beethoven

Loreley Jam 1982 1. Knocking On Heaven's Door 2. I'm Ready 3. Medley: Lucille / Dust My Broom / I'm Movin' / Be Bop A Lula 4. Slow Blues 5. I Have The Blues

Loreley 1982 1. Wayward Child 2. Double Vision 3. Big Guns 4. What In The World 5. Nadine 6. Follow Me 7. Bad Penny 8. Bourbon 9. Jinxed 10. Moonchild 11. Brute Force And Ignorance 12. The Devil Made Me Do It 13. Out On The Western Plain 14. Ride On Red, Ride On 15. Philby 16. Shadow Play 17. Shin Kicker 18. Peter Gunn

Cologne 1990 1. Continental Op 2. Don't Start Me Talkin' 3. Mean Disposition 4. Kid Gloves 5. Middle Name 6. The King Of Zydeco 7. Out On The Western Plain 8. Empire State Express 9. The Loop 10. Garbage Man 11. When My Baby She Left Me 12. Shadow Play 13. Shin Kicker 14. Born Under A Bad Sign (w/ Jack Bruce) 15. I'm Ready (w/ Jack Bruce) 16. Politician (w/ Jack Bruce)