Irish Tour
by Rory Gallagher
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Irish Tour is ranked as the best album by Rory Gallagher.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/27/2026 11:15 |  Beattieboi | 35 | 66/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 18:10 | duelek | 2,013 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 01:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 12,858 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/22/2025 13:55 | cicadelic | 13,151 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2025 17:41 | Proto | 4,161 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 79.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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An often overlooked guitar legend. This is from the era where a live album was just that...not just a rejigged greatest hits album
The guy could put on a show! One of the artists where the live shows surpass the studio albums.
Rory Gallagher was an extraordinary blues and blues rock guitarist, here captured at the height of his powers. The keyboard/organist that accompanied him here was also outstanding. Rory's voice was little weak, but no matter. What were the best live albums of the 70's? Frampton Comes Alive? The Who Live at Leeds? With apologies and no disrespect to Peter Frampton and the Who (whom I love), but this was the best live album of the 70's.
Absolutely jaw-dropping live set. BestEver doesn't have a separate entry for the 40th anniversary edition, but that's the one I mentally put on my all-time-best list, as it restores the songs that were dropped from the original release.
What an absolutely amazing blues rock album this is. The guy sure as hell could play the guitar! Although I have been aware of Rory Gallagher for many years I have only started to get into his work purchasing the vinyl re-issues whenever I come across them. It is no surprise that this is considered his best album, the energy is addictive!
Jason cofused, I read somewhere that Jimi replied:"Dunno, ask Johnny Winter". Hendrix was humble about his own status, but whose name he said, I dunno.
Possibly the greatest live album ever released, the version of Who's That Coming is far better than the studio recording and for me is the high point of the album. This site is missing 2010s Beat Club Sessions which contains a cracking version of messin with the Kid, and is a must for any Rory fan.
Jasonconfused 11/14/2012 20:44 | #55021 | TOP COMMENT
In a 1969 interview with Jimi Hendrix he was asked what it felt like to be the greatest guitarist in the world. Jimi replied with "I dunno, ask Rory Gallagher."
This is Rory's greatest live and greatest overall album. The man believed in every note he played. Easily one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. The man was a genius.
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