Track Listing

1. Used To Be
2. I'm Not Awake
3. Don't Know Where I'm Going
4. Maybe I Will
5. Whole Lot Of People
6. In Your Town
7. Should've Learnt My Lesson
8. There's A Light
9. Out Of My Mind
10. Crest Of A Wave

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17617 in Music
• Released on: 1998-08-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Import

Customer Reviews

Perfect
Every now and then a band or an artiste produces a perfect album. You probably have your own views - Cream's 'Disraeli Gears', The Doors, Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue', John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' perhaps. Rory Gallagher was a blindingly brilliant bluesman. Almost every album he made was superb. But 'Deuce' has just that little extra something that makes it unforgettable. Buy almost any Rory album and you'll be a fan for life, but if you are going to buy just one - buy 'Deuce'. There have been lots of great guitarists; there still are. I saw Rory just twice and I don't think I know enough about guitar to say that he was the best but I never saw anyone else - Clapton, Beck, Zappa, McLauglin - who made it look so easy. And Rory always looked as though he was just playing for the sheer enjoyment of it. Buy 'Deuce' and listen to one of the great musicians at his very best.

marvelous
Maybe his best studio recording and one of the finest and excellent bluesrock records around.
Liner notes give a small impression:
- "... Rory was keen 'Deuce' would capture the raw energy of a live performance."
- A quote by Johny Marr: "There was one day when I was playing along with the 'Deuce' album which was a complete turning point for me as a guitar player".

Although the album was recorded in 1971, 'Deuce' still sounds fresh and up to date. As listener, you can hear and feel that the record was made under very positive vibrations. Rory sings and plays his clear bluesrock on 'Deuce' with passion, and that's what we wanted to hear. 'Deuce' contains superb various acoustic, electric and slide guitar playing.

The record contains 10 different kinds of bluesrock songs, no track sounds the same or as a copy of an other track on the record. Two acoustic songs, one the more traditional and rather heavy blues style 'Don't know where I'm going' and the second 'Out of my mind', the rather lighter and fast, finger picking one. A jazzy-bluesy influenced 'There's a light', an electric Chicago blues style 'Should've learnt my lesson, 'Deuce' is a complete record for different kinds of bluesrock styles. Pure, enthusiastic slide guitar playing needed? Check out the track 'In your town'. Or check out the full sounding superb 'Crest of a wave', a track with a great drive. Opens with fine guitar cords, it is quickly backed by a drum and bass sounds that fill the whole song, therefor it gives Rory the opportunity to show his slide guitar playing in two great slide solo's. Listen to the song's full sound.
'Used to Be', well Mojo, issue nr. 59 wrote the following words about this song: "Punchy poprocker with terrific hook, "Better get used to being my used to be..." Had is been a single, it would have been as ubiquitous as All Right Now." I do not need to say more.

'Deuce' an enthusiastic, fresh and excellent bluesrock album

Rough. Raw. Undiluted. Tender. Ambitious. Immediate.
Rory strips his sound down to the bare essentials, on this, his second album. This reveals his amazing technique, both vocally and on guitar, to be the real thing - developing since his debut album and formative years in Taste. Drawing on wide ranging influences from blues, country, celtic, jazz, folk, rock, 'Deuce' is adventurous in its scope but always under control. Gallagher is creating a sound that is all his own and 'Deuce' is a warning to all other artists that the bar has just been raised.