Category: Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.

Gerry McAvoy – Can’t Win ‘Em All 2010


2010 debut solo album from the British Blues bassist, best known for his work with Rory Gallagher and Nine Below Zero. McAvoy played with Gallagher for 30 years and was the only consistent factor on all of Rory’s 14 solo albums which have sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

The Pat McManus Band – Dark Emerald Highway 2016


Regular Über Röck readers (all 1 million plus of you) will know I am a huge – no, make that HUGE – fan of the man myself and many, many others for more years than we collectively care to remember have called, with deep affection and respect, ‘The Professor’. Criminally ignored by the mainstream media, Pat McManus lives for one thing and one thing only – and that is playing music.