WELL, IT'S BEEN A
SHIN- KICKER MORNING
WIND UP MY MACHINE
AND I'LL BE ON MY WAY
Photo-Finish
is the seventh
studio album
and ninth album
overall by
Irish musician
Rory Gallagher,
released in 1978.
It marked a turning point
in Gallagher's career.
Most of the songs on
Photo-Finish
were initially recorded on
what was to be an
earlier album,
but Gallagher was
unhappy with the recordings.
He fired the drummer
and keyboardist
from his current band
and replaced only
the drummer,
changing the band
to a power trio
as his
original bands
had been.
Background
The album name reflects
the fact that the
finished product
was delivered
to the record company
just at the deadline.
The album came after a
two-year period
without an album release,
due to Gallagher's
decision to scrap
the earlier version
of the album
and the need to recover
from an accident to his thumb.
Gallagher originally recorded
many of the songs
that would end up on
Photo-Finish
in San Francisco.
Rather than producing
the album himself
as he usually did
he worked with
Elliot Mazer,
a successful producer
who had previously produced
hits for Neil Young.
At the last minute
the initial copies of the album
had been pressed
Gallagher decided to
simply scrap the
Mazer-produced album
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