Track Listing

1. Walk On Hot Coals
2. Daughter Of The Everglades
3. Banker's Blues
4. Hands Off
5. Race The Breeze
6. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
7. Unmilitary Two Step
8. If I Had A Reason
9. Stompin' Ground
10. Treat Her Right

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17154 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-05
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Quality Guitar Playing
I first discovered Rory Gallagher listening to Taste albums (On the boards etc) This album Blueprint is second to none for showing off his amazing skills on the guitar and his sublime vocals.
If you want proper blues with a kick this comes highly recommended.

RORYS FINEST
This,alongside TATTOO and the live albums,is Rorys finest album.Rory had developed into one of the great blues based rock guitarists from playing in Taste[unfairly classed as a poor mans Cream].I was lucky enough to see the great man from county Cork regularly at the Marquee Club in London and many other venues including when he blew everyone away at the 1970 Isle of Wight concert.
This album sees the introduction of Lou Martins keyboards behind Rorys excellent guitar,whether its electric or acoustic.Daughter of the everglades is a personal favourite of mine.Rory never released singles and turned down the chance of joining the Rolling Stones to continue his gigging and releasing fine albums.God bless him.

My Favourite Rory Gallagher Album!
This is, of course, a biased opinion. I first went to see Rory Gallagher live, at the Caird Hall in Dundee, when this album came out so it was the first album of his that I owned. In those days I guess we all had a bit less money so an album purchase was a more considered thing. As a result this was one of about 20 albums I had for quite a long time and the only one of his, although I had a friend who later had Against the Grain and another who had Live in Europe, I still heard this most.

I heard him play all the tracks from this album live and most of them several times. Hands Off was a live favourite along with Walk On Hot Coals so the songs here are key to its strength as an album but there is also the brilliant guitar playing with a balance of serious and comic, Unmilitary Two-Step always brings a smile to my face.

He always seemed genuinely happy to be playing when I saw him live and all the evidence is that this was when he was most alive, but I have a lingering sadness for the man off stage. He clearly had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, which ultimately killed him, and I always wonder about his personal relationships. His public face was that of a hard working, hard drinking musician who was well respected by his peers and I guess that is all I, or anyone, needs to know. The music he left behind is wonderful and this is a great place to start. I will always think of this as the ultimate Rory Gallagher band but I now have all his albums and I would urge you to investigate some more, the man was obviously driven to make the music he so loved.