Last Spring Barry undertook an extensive tour of the Netherlands – playing 12 concerts in 12 days in all the 12 provinces. This was to help raise money for the “War Child” charity. Since then he has continued to collaborate with “War Child” on several other projects.

He has also worked for the following charity organisations; The Irish Youth Foundation (IYF) and the Red Cross.Barry sums it up quite simply - “I grew up in a small town and dreamed that one day I’d be in a music group, travelling all over the world and reaching people through my music. It’s a dream that has come true many times over!”Barry’s web site

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In 1969 Rolling Stones founding member Brian Jones was fired then murdered. Enter Mick Taylor the best lead guitarist the Rolling Stones have ever had. Mick Taylor played on Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Tumbling Dice, Happy, Angie, It’s Only Rock n Roll, Honky Tonk Women, and many more. This past winter (2006,7) Mick Taylor asked Barry Mc Cabe to be the warm up act on his tour. Later Mick Taylor played on a few songs on Barry’s cd. This summer both traded guitar licks on stages together and more are set for this coming winter. Check Barry’s web site for tour dates. Thanks to his web site for all these fine photos.

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“My musical hero was Rory Gallagher, … way and beyond anyone else I don’t have any other real heroes…”“Around this time (high school) I was very into Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac and one day we were out driving when I came up with the idea to call the band ´Albatross´ and that was it.” - Barry Mc Cabe
Thanks to “The First Barry Mc Cabe – Fanpage” they have a lot more good info there.

Songs on the podcast are 1. Tempted 2. One Of These Days 3. Rollin 4. The Peace Within

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 003 - Rory Gallagher’s Spirit is Alive and Well in Barry Mc Cabe [20:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Barry Mc Cabe played support to Rory Gallagher on his last tour of Europe.It is no surprise that people like myself that thought Rory was such a great blues rocker feel the same way about Barry Mc Cabe. Weather he is playing the blues, rock n or doing a beautiful Irish balled it is all A1.Barry’s CD “The Peace Within” tops the sales chart at CD Baby last month and the title track among others will be heard on this podcast.Barry also comes up with great lyrics like “And no one learns from history so lots of men are dead “

Please check out the Barry Mc Cabe web site.

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Mean Gene Kelton is from Mississippi in 1992 he formed the Die Hards which have been rock n the blues music ever sence.This summer (2007) they recorded a new cd called “Going Back To Memphis: A Biker Band Tribute To Elvis Presley” at the legendary Sun Studio. Most of the time I’d say big deal another tribute cd who cares. Get this Mean Gene Kelton & The Die Hards stretch out the songs added guitar and harmonic solos. Now that’s what makes a tribute cd worth having, something new and fresh, if not you might as well lesson to the original version.

The songs they do are:

1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Polk Salad Annie
3. Heartbreak Hotel
4. Blue Suede Shoes
5. One Night With You
6. Big Boss Man
7. Steamroller Blues
8. Little Sister
9. Memphis
10. Hound Dog
11. Baby What You Want Me To Do
12. Promised Land
13. Going Back To Memphis
Mean Gene Kelton & The Die Hards web site