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In 1989, Castle released Tattoo/Blueprint, which contained two complete albums – Tattoo, originally released on Polydor in 1973, and Blueprint, originally released on Polydor also in 1973 – by Irish blues rocker Rory Gallagher…

A collection of the best of Rory Gallagher's selected BBC live performances. The 2 CDs include 11 songs selected from studio recordings made by Rory Gallagher for the BBC, and 13 songs from The Venue performance broadcast on "BBC in Concert Live" in 1979. These recordings celebrate the importance of the artist Rory Gallagher, who was possibly the most recorded musician in the 1970s by the BBC.

The late Irish blues rocker Rory Gallagher would have been pleased to see the Chess logo embossed on the three-disc Blues, a box of rare, unissued, acoustic, and live recordings. Issued to mark what would have been his half-century as a recording artist, 90-percent of the material here is previously unreleased. The discs are divided thematically: Electric, Acoustic, and Live. The booklet is wonderfully annotated with an authoritative essay from journalist and music historian Jas Obrecht; it places Gallagher in his rightful historical place as an electric blues rock pioneer alongside admirers Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, and Peter Green.