TASTE S/T VG+ RARE 1969 Atco 1st PRESSING Rory Gallagher Leavin' Blues Catfish

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Vinyl:  VG+ Play Tested. Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect play.  Atco Labels are Clean except for a name written on side 1.  This is the 1969 Atco 1st Pressing!!  Introducing Rory Gallagher, One of the greatest guitarists Ever!  Here, barely-20-year-old Rory does a Wildly ambitious 1st album with his first band.  This is an amazing journey deep in the heart of British Blues.  If you love Cream and/or Led Zeppelin, you'll have a new friend here.  Crucial.  
Cover: VG/VG+ (see photos; some ring and shelf wear; initials on front, name on back) 
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AllMusic Review by Eduardo Rivadavia  [-]

The fact that they, like so many late-'60s contemporaries, were molded in the image of Cream has often been cited to diminish the stature of Irish power trio Taste. But, all things being equal, it's impossible to dismiss their fine eponymous debut based solely on obvious source of inspiration, nor, by any means, the singular talents of the band's creative and performing focal point, vocalist and guitarist Rory Gallagher -- barely 20 years of age upon its release in 1969. After opening with the menacing staccatos and power chords of the forward-looking, proto-metal classic "Blister on the Moon," Taste turn right back around and indulge their retro-fueled Brit-blues influences with a bottleneck run through Leadbelly's "Leavin' Blues" -- a show of contrasts that speaks volumes to the breadth of Gallagher's instrumental versatility. The blues keep coming with the guitarist's self-penned showcase "Sugar Mama" and a more restrained acoustic "Hail," then the hard rock fires are stoked once again with "Born on the Wrong Side of Town" -- a track whose regional folk music accents did much to foment Gallagher's enduring status as a blue-collar, Emerald Isle legend. And so it goes until the album's conclusion: with alternating glimpses of past and future musical tendencies peppering remaining tracks "Same Old Story," "Dual Carriageway Pain" (both gritty blues-rockers showing riffs that sometimes smacked of the then brand-new Led Zeppelin), "Catfish" (a traditional blues standard turned monster jam), and "I'm Moving On" (a spare but spunk-filled Hank Snow cover). Ultimately, it's a stylistic stew that would arguably get honed to better focus and achieve greater distinction from the competition on Taste's second album, a year later. But who's to say that Taste didn't have almost as much influence as Creamon future bands such as Rush, whose early records are quite literally mapped out on this release -- a worthy addition to collections of this exciting period in British rock.