Defender (album)


Defender is the thirteenth album and tenth studio album by Irish musician Rory Gallagher. Coming after a five-year hiatus from the recording studio, it was his first album released on the Capo label.
The song "Continental Op" was inspired by the nameless fictional detective created by Dashiell Hammett, and was dedicated to Hammett.

Track listing

All songs composed by Rory Gallagher unless otherwise stated.
Side one
  1. "Kickback City"
  2. "Loanshark Blues"
  3. "Continental Op"
  4. "I Ain't No Saint"
  5. "Failsafe Day"
Side two
  1. "Road to Hell"
  2. "Doing Time"
  3. "Smear Campaign"
  4. "Don't Start Me Talkin'"
  5. "Seven Days"
CD bonus tracks, also included as a bonus 7inch single on some issues of the LP
  1. "Seems to Me"
  2. "No Peace for the Wicked"

    Personnel

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