Στις 23 Μαΐου του 1971 ο Rory Gallagher κυκλοφόρησε τον πρώτο του προσωπικό δίσκο με τίτλο.... Rory Gallagher
Μετά την αποχώρησή του απο τους Taste ξεκίνησε με άλλους δυο μουσικούς απο το Belfast -τον μπασίστα Gerry McVoy και τον ντράμερ Wilgar Campell- την σόλο καριέρα του... -και καλά έκανε-
Ο δίσκος έφτασε στο #32 της Αγγλίας -καθόλου άσχημα για πρώτη κυκλοφορία-
Ο Gallagher συνδύασε με μοναδικό τρόπο τα blues -κυρίως- με την rock, τα folk και τα country -ενίοτε και jazz- στοιχεία.
Αν και προσωπικά πιστεύω οτι ο ήχος και η παραγωγή γενικότερα αδικεί τον δίσκο, παρόλα αυτά -ακόμα κι έτσι- είναι ένας εξαιρετικός δίσκος.
Το track list είναι το εξής:
1. Laundromat
2. Just the Smile
3. I Fall Apart
4. Wave Myself Goodbye
5. Hands Up
6. Sinner Boy
7. For the Last Time
8. It's You
9. I'm Not Surprised
10. Can't Believe It's True
Αγαπημένα τα Just The Smile, I Fall Apart, For The Last Time τα οποία και προτείνω στους μη-μυημένους...
Οι υπόλοιποι...
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ΥΓ Επιφυλάσσομαι στο μέλλον να αναρτήσω φωτογραφίες απο την μπάντα που παίζαμε το For The Last Time -το οποίο τραγουδούσα κιόλας : )))) -
What do you think of that?
I'm sleeping down at the laundromat,
If you should pass by,
Be sure to drop right in.
Well I don't have no clothes to clean,
To put inside the machine,
It was the craziest place,
I have ever been.
Come 'round and meet my friends,
They'll be there with me,
With me to the end,
With me to the end,
With me to the end.
They say I told you so,
Maybe bad times come and go,
If you don't know that right now,
But then you'll never know.
If you don't know that right now,
But then you'll never know.
Just the smile that is spreading all over her face,
Could warm up the room and set fire to the place.
Yes it could, you know it could.
Now the fog is clinging all over the town,
Put one foot in front then you just might fall down.
On the ground, she's in town.
But like the rain that is falling all over the land,
She cools down my mind when she touches my hand.
Feels so good, yeah so good.
Like a cat that's playing with a ball of twine,
That you call my heart,
Oh but baby is it so hard,
To tell the two apart?
And so slowly you unwind me,
'Til I fall apart.
I'm only living for the hour,
That I see your face,
And when that happens,
I don't wanna be no other place,
'Til the end of time,
You'll be on my mind.
I don't mind,
Waiting for your love,
Borrowed time,
I've got plenty of,
Rain or shine,
Please bring out your love,
Make it shine,
Like the stars above.
I'm only living for the moment,
When I hear your voice,
Oh, I'm waiting,
I don't have any choice,
And the day is long,
So won't you come where you should be.
Well I don't know, anymore,
I don't know, why I feel so sore,
I only know, I love you more,
Feel so blue, I think I'll wave myself goodbye.
The people say it, you look away,
From my mind, you wouldn't stay,
But you get stronger there, every day,
You know I feel so alone,
I think I'll wave myself goodbye.
I think I'll wave myself goodbye,
I just go on playing a loosing game,
I just go on playing a loosing game,
Some day, some day, ooooh.
It takes a fool, to learn to see,
If you can make out, the wood from the trees,
I must be blind, as I could be,
And now I feel so blue,
I think I'll wave myself goodbye.
Hands up reach for the sky
And I will tell you why
This is just a game I'm playin
You won't feel the same I'm betting now
Get up you know this time
That you made up your mind
Think of all the dreams you're chasin
Think of all the time you're wastin now
My world is upside down
My inside is inside out
I'm hangin to a leaf that's shakin
That’s hangin to a branch that's breakin off now
Go out into the night
Left to the sky
You’ll walk out the shoes you're wearin
Might even lose your blues, no tellin now
City streets and rolling cars,
The only sound you can hear.
But you know you might be wrong,
Just look right over here.
Back up against the wall,
Hands on the bottle.
You're gonna walk on by,
Then he cries you gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta.
Take that sinner boy home,
Wrap him up, keep him warm,
He won't do no harm.
Take him home right away,
He's got no place to stay,
Let him walk right inside your home.
Go on and ask him his name,
Let him try and explain,
What in the world done him wrong.
Tell the man, lift him up,
Take away the paper cup.
One more inside him won't do him no good.
Sinner boy,
You've done me wrong,
For the last time,
You've sung your song,
Now I'm going to sing mine,
Out loud, so loud,
Like the roaring sea.
You've played around,
For the last time,
You've shown your claws,
Now I'm going to show mine,
Watch out, I'll be about,
In the night.
You ran around,
Since the very first day,
You've had your moment,
Now I'm gonna have my play,
So long, I'll be gone,
In the night.
You put me down,
For the very last time,
I hit the floor,
But I got up on the count of nine,
Goodbye, don't cry,
When I'm gone.
When the days begin to climb on me
And I begin to feel that I can't please
There's only one thing I can do
Call on the one who pulls me through, that is you, yeah, you
When I'm lost in some old lonely town
And there ain't no sign of you around
A voice comes whispering through my ear
And I can almost feel you here so near, so near
When the nights begin to drag me down
And there ain't nobody else around
There's only one place I must be
Close to you, you close to me, to me, to me
When the days begin to climb on me
And I begin to feel that I can't please
There's only one thing I can do
Call on the one who pulls me through, that is you, that is you
I'm not surprised, you didn't take the time to write me.
I'm not surprised, you didn't take the time to call.
But baby, you know it really shook me.
When baby, I heard you're not coming back at all.
I'm not surprised, you didn't stop to think about me.
I'm not surprised, you let me vanish from your brain.
But baby, you know it over took me.
When my freind said, you're gonna leave me here behind.
Whoa..hoa...
Why must it be? Why must it be?
Why must it be? Why must it be?
I'm not surprised, you started out without me.
I'm not surprised, you even stopped to care.
But baby, if you must desert me.
When you go, don't talk about me when I'm not there.
Can't believe it's true,
I can't believe it's true,
Baby, where are you?
Baby, where are you?
In the night I'm walking in my sleep,
A lonely man who just can't get no peace.
Oh, how I wish I just could see your face,
Then I wouldn't walk the floor pace by pace.
Clock on the wall,
Why do you bother to chime at all?
Clock on the wall,
Why does this have to happen at all?
And in the day I'm walking on the street,
Hear the sound, steps walking after me.
That's just trouble following me about,
That is one thing I can do without.
Clock on the wall,
Why do you bother to chime at all?
Spot on the wall,
Did I really see it moving at all?
I can't believe it's true,
I can't believe it's true,
I wonder, where are you?
I wonder, where are you?
And in the night I'm talking in my sleep,
The things I say, I just , just can't repeat.
Don't need no fingerprints to know,
You've got your hands on my very soul.
Clock on the wall,
Why do you bother to chime at all?
Clock on the wall,
Why does this have to happen at all?
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
you're having a good time now
you'll be having trouble after a while
Went to see the gypsy woman
to have my fortune told
she said run right home right away
and look through your keyhole
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
you're having a good time now
you'll be having bad times after a while
I believed everything the gypsy woman told me
every single word she said
i ran right home right away
and looked through my keyhole
another man in my bed
the gypsy woman told me
you were your mother's bad luck child
you're having a good time now
you'll be having bad times after a while
Well, my babe I had you on my mind,
Well, by little I watched my love slow down.
Yeah, yeah,
Do you know what it means to be alone?
Today you're laughing pretty baby,
Tomorrow you could be cryin'.
Well you live for the day you're gonna know,
You got Little Charlie,
Now come on and try to make it home.
Whoa-ohh.
Do you know what it means to be alone?
Today you're laughing woman,
Tomorrow you could be cryin'.
Yeah.
Well they tell me every dog has his day,
Tell me why all the good dogs can't ever run away.
Yeah, yeah,
Do you know what it means to be alone?
