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Met dank aan de originele posters indien het niet door mij geript is...
Thanks to the original posters if not ripped by myself...

01 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Cradle Rock.flac 
02 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Walk On Hot Coals.flac 
03 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Tattoo’d Lady.flac 
04 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - I Wonder Who.flac 
05 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Calling Card.flac 
06 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Who’s That Coming.flac 
07 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Messin’ With The Kid.flac 
08 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Bullfrog Blues.flac 
09 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Treat Her Right.flac 
10 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Bad Penny.flac 
11 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - I Fall Apart.flac 
12 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - A Million Miles Away.flac 
13 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - As The Crow Flies.flac 
14 - Joe Bonamassa - The Spirit Of Rory - Back On My Stompin’ Ground.flac 


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Joe Bonamassa – The Spirit of Rory: Live from Cork (2026)
Filed Under: blues-rock, live by exy — 4 Comments
June 18, 2026

To his credit, Joe Bonamassa has never been shy about his influences, consistently paying tribute to them in concerts and studio recordings.
From British blues rock icons like Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin, a few acts he covered on 2018s ‘British Blues Explosion Live,’
to reimagining classic soul with singer Beth Hart and helming a stunningly assembled homage to B.B. King, Bonamassa uses his popularity to attract attention to
those who played a major role in his musical development.
Longtime fans remember JB’s 2000 major label debut kicked off with a version of Rory Gallagher’s “Cradle Rock,” an early indication of how significant the Irish guitar legend’s music was to him.
Bonamassa often cites Gallagher’s ‘Live in Europe’ (1972) and ‘Irish Tour ‘74’ as key components to his blues rock upbringing.

Therefore it comes as little surprise that Bonamassa has gotten around to recording an entire concert dedicated to Gallagher’s music.
Better still, he did so at the request of the Irish guitarist’s estate and held the shows (three total, all sold out) in Cork, Ireland where he was born and remains a local hero.
The result of those 2025 gigs, titled ‘The Spirit of Rory Gallagher Live from Cork,’ available June 19, is on this 90-minute CD/DVD/Blu-Ray release.

Fourteen of his most popular tunes (Gallagher never had any charting radio hits) are chosen from the icon’s dozen or so studio albums under his name (there are nearly twice and many live collections).
Bonamassa digs back to his earliest solo recordings recreating “Bullfrog Blues” and “Messin’ With the Kid,” two older blues standards that Gallagher covered,
helping establish him as one of the UKs most combustible performers.

“This was Rory’s town, and Rory’s people. We weren’t going to let them down,” quotes Bonamassa in the liner notes.
And the performance displays that dedication. He brought a four piece backing band of bass, drums, keyboards (by Lachy Doley, who officially joined JB’s touring outfit in 2026),
and rhythm guitar (Gallagher never had a second guitarist) to flesh out the sound.

The arrangements stay true to Gallagher’s original recordings with the most significant changes being Bonamassa’s solos and a tendency to expand songs for the live setting.
The bittersweet ballad “I Fall Apart,” one of the guitarist’s sweetest melodies, gets beefed up from 5 minutes to twice that length. It’s one of this set’s most powerful moments,
shifting from a soft and delicate start then closing in a blustery cluster of swirling notes.

Many selections are rockers, beginning logically with “Cradle Rock” and continuing through Gallagher career highlights such as “Calling Card,” “Walk on Hot Coals” and a frantic “Bullfrog Blues.”
The mood lightens for Tony Joe White’s “As the Crow Flies,” played on Rory’s 1930 National Triolian resonator guitar, the set’s lone acoustic moment and Bonamassa’s most heartfelt vocal.
He pulls out slide for the swamp-infested “Back on My Old Stompin’ Ground” and works in audience-assisted handclaps on Muddy Waters’ thumping slow blues “I Wonder Who.”
Doley gets a featured searing organ solo on that, showing why Bonamassa later hired him.

As solid, enjoyable and well, spirited, as these pieces are, they can’t help but pale next to Gallagher’s provocative renditions. That will surprise no one who has heard his many live albums.
Surely even Bonamassa would agree.

But it was important for him to create the shows resulting in ‘The Spirit of Rory Live from Cork,’ not just to display his appreciation for Gallagher’s talents,
but to educate and inform his sprawling worldwide audience of the Irish legend’s songs, fiery playing and historical importance.
Those can only be touched on here, cherry-picked from Gallagher’s diverse and rousing catalog that remains enduring in its quality, class, and intensity. — rockandbluesmuse.com   Љ