Sold Date: April 27, 2015
Start Date: April 17, 2015
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RORY GALLAGHER Blueprint 1973 UK POLYDOR 1st PRESS - BARELY PLAYED - NEAR MINT RORY GALLAGHER
Blueprint

UK POLYDOR (2383 189 SUPER) FIRST PRESSING (February 1973)
LOVELY COPY - BARELY PLAYED

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE “MADE IN ENGLAND” RED POLYDOR LABELS
MATRIX: 2383189 A//1 11 3 / 2383189 B//1 11 3
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DELICATE FULLY TEXTURED SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATE CODED ’0872’ (August 1972)

Kicking off with the furious "Walk on Hot Coals" where Rory Gallagher's stinging guitar and Lou Martin's insistent piano pounding spar within the context of one of Rory's classic rockers, the album presents a well rounded picture of Gallagher's eclectic influences.
A jaunty, acoustic run through Big Bill Broonzy's "Banker's Blues" (oddly credited to Gallagher), the ragtime "Unmilitary Two-Step" as well as an unusually straightforward country tune "If I Had a Reason" with Rory on lap-steel and Martin doing his best honky-tonk, effectively break up the blues-rock that remains the soul of the album.
The album's centrepiece, a brooding "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" finds the band locked into a swampy groove for over eight minutes as Gallagher abbreviates his own solo providing room for Martin's aggressive piano.
On "Hands Off" the guitarist even picks up saxophone, and he shows off his spooky Muddy Waters' inspired slide on the train chugging "Race the Breeze," one of the guitarist's best tunes

Side 1:
Walk On Hot Coals
Daughter Of The Everglades
Banker's Blues
Hands Off
Side 2:
Race The Breeze
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Unmilitary Two-Step
If I Had A Reason

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, bright labels which carry some scratch marks around the spindle hole but I think these are from manufacture rather than play
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces are practically unmarked and shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Play-checked at volume the record plays beautifully throughout - the odd one-off click was noted - nothing really and I did not clean this copy as looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Exceptional example of this thin, delicate, textured sleeve which is as clean, fresh and unworn as the day it was made

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