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Bernie Marsden’s Icons
A posthumous Bernie Marsden album was released on May 9, 2025. It is called Icons and continues the Inspiration series of cover albums he started several years ago to pay tribute to the artists that were influential on his music. The album includes two Bernie’s originals — Kestrel and Barford Blues, the rest are covers.
Track list:
- Shake Your Money Maker (Elmore James/Fleetwood Mac)
- Bell Bottom Blues (Derek And The Dominos)
- Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
- Born Under A Bad Sign (Booker T. Jones/Albert King)
- Wheels Within Wheels (Rory Gallagher)
- Kestrel
- Calling Card (Rory Gallagher)
- Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac)
- Jessica (Allman Brothers Band)
- Like It This Way (Fleetwood Mac)
- Man Of The World (Fleetwood Mac)
- Barford Blues
The album can be ordered through his online store.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
That Calling Card version is lovely.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:40It is.
May 15th, 2025 at 19:13This Calling Card tribute to Rory is a good version, although heavily edited. The original cover goes to about 5.20 minutes or so. Didn’t Roger Glover highlight this song as his favourite from the Calling Card album? There are some good Rory Gallagher cover songs on Bernie’s tribute album to him. Below is a very nice tribute to Bernie from Donal Gallagher following Bernie’s passing. Almost 30 years since Rory’s passing in June 1995, what a blow that was. The second link below is the extended (original) Calling Card version from Bernie, let that guitar solo rip, wonderful. The third link below is to the full album of Bernie’s tribute to Rory. Cheers.
https://www.rorygallagher.com/rip-bernie-marsden/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiZjz0ClSs&t=9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-VLukkQh38&t=2s
May 15th, 2025 at 23:30