Rory Gallagher-Photo-Finish (1978)

For their fifth album, "Calling Card" (1976), Irishman Rory Gallagher relinquished production duties for the first time in his career, entrusting them to former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover, who decisively influenced the hardening of their style. On this album, the guitars sound more powerful and aggressive, and the keyboard lines take on a much more prominent role in many parts of the album. This hardening would be even more pronounced on the following album, "Photo-Finish", released several years later, in which Rory returned to the power trio format with bassist Gerry McAvoy and drummer Ted McKenna. In this new release, Rory Gallagher presents a repertoire of energetic and raw hard blues rock tracks that became staples of his concerts, such as "Brute Force & Ignorance", "Shadow Play", "The Last Of Independents", and "Shin Kicker", or other equally dazzling tracks like the frenetic "Cruise On Out", the bluesy "Cloak & Dagger", the folky rock "Overnight Bag", or the rhythmic hard blues rock "The Mississippi Sheiks", not forgetting the superb blues "Fuel To The Fire".