''Back to the Blues'' is the thirteenth solo

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by Northern Irish

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Gary Moore Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, Heavy metal music, heavy ...

, released in 2001. As implied by its title, it saw Moore return to the

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music with which he had found fame since 1990, after two more experimental albums. It was also Moore's first album to feature

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on drums; Mooney would go on to fill the drumming spot on Moore's next two studio albums, as well as his short-lived ''

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'' project and several live albums. The cover photograph is of Moore at Therapia Lane Tram Depot, Croydon. All tracks from this album were re-released on the multi-disc compilation, ''"Blues and Beyond"'' in 2017.

Track listing

Personnel

- guitar, vocals *Vic Martin - keyboards *Pete Rees - bass *

- drums Horns on track 2: *Martin Drover - trumpet *Frank Mead - tenor saxophone *Nick Payn - baritone saxophone *Nick Pentelow - tenor saxophone Brass arrangement by Gary Moore & Nick Payn

References

Gary Moore albums 2001 albums Albums produced by Chris Tsangarides CMC International albums {{2000s-hard-rock-album-stub