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Top Priority is Rory Gallagher's eighth studio album and tenth album overall. It was his fourth and final studio album for Chrysalis Records both in the UK and USA. The album was the second with his revised power trio band.
A year after the huge success of ‘Photo-Finish’ Rory returned to Dieter Dierks studio in Germany to record Top Priority, his fourth album for Chrysalis. The year in-between saw Rory touring extensively in the States and receiving great press both at home and abroad.
- Back to The Essentials
- ‘I Just Do My Own Thing, Whatever It Is’
- Making Blues-Based Material Come Alive
Gallagher had, however, made a few changes of his own. He reshuffled his band’s personnel prior to Photo-Finish, retaining longtime bass lieutenant Gerry McAvoy, but stripping the line-up back to a muscular power trio completed by ex-Sensational Alex Harvey Band drummer Ted McKenna. As he told North America’s Record Reviewin April 1980, he’d found ...
Top Priorityopened with the anthemic, shape-throwing “Follow Me” and the tracklist was again long on exuberant rockers such as “Wayward Child,” the atmospheric, Southern rock-styled “Bad Penny” and the thrilling “At The Depot,” with the latter number affording Gallagher the opportunity to let rip with some truly imperious slide guitar. Except for “...
First released on September 16, 1979, Top Priority was quickly embraced by Rory Gallagher’s fiercely loyal fanbase and it soon found favor among the era’s more tuned-in critics, such as Creem’s Michael Davis, whose review sagely noted that “after a decade on the boards, he can still make blues-based material come alive”. Four decades on, that obser...
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- Rock, Blues
- 458
- Electric Blues, Blues Rock
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Top Priority. Review Summary: Top Priority proves that Rory Gallagher wasn't just an incredible guitarist but also a superb song writer. The late 1970’s was an interesting if somewhat turbulent period for the blues-rock scene.
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