![]() ![]() ![]() I had previously invested in Gallagher's Tattoo (Polydor, 1973) after having heard Gallagher's "Walk on Hot Coals" from his previous recording, Blueprint (Polydor, 1973). Like most middle-class white kids of the era, I was introduced to the blues through the British Invasion and southern rock only to discover the real story much later. ![]() I had just started listening to the blues and had fallen under the spells of the Allman Brothers Band and Joe Cocker. While there I purchased two LPs for our listening pleasure, Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard (RSO, 1974) and Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour '74 (Polydor). In the summer of 1974, I went from Little Rock to Chicago to visit my closest childhood friend. It is tied to a specific time and place, circumstances and memories that are so tightly integrated in one's experience that having memory with no music cannot even be imagined, much less considered. In the end, music is a personal soundtrack to one's life. ![]()
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