On the Boards (album)

On the Boards is the second album by Irish rock band Taste, released on 1 January 1970, after being recorded 13 months earlier in December 1968. It is their final studio album and the release that brought Rory Gallagher to prominence, reaching number 18 on the UK Albums Chart.^[3] Reviewers have praised its variety and the precision of its ensemble playing, and noted the jazz inflections of Gallagher's guitar and his unaffected vocals. Lester Bangs dubbed it "impressive... progressive blues".^[4]

On the Boards
Studio album by Taste
Released	1 January 1970
Recorded	December 1968, London
Genre	Blues rock,[1] jazz, folk rock
Length	37:13
Label	Polydor (Europe) Atco (North America)
Producer	Tony Colton
Taste chronology
Taste (1969) On the Boards (1970) Live Taste (1971)
Singles from On the Boards
"What's Going On" Released: 1970

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rory Gallagher

1. "What's Going On" – 2:48
2. "Railway and Gun" – 3:38
3. "It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again" – 6:33
4. "If the Day Was Any Longer" – 2:10
5. "Morning Sun" – 2:39
6. "Eat My Words" – 3:47
7. "On the Boards" – 6:02
8. "If I Don't Sing I'll Cry" – 2:40
9. "See Here" – 3:05
10. "I'll Remember" – 3:02^[2]

Personnel

Taste

• Rory Gallagher - guitars, vocals, alto saxophone, harmonica
• Richard "Charlie" McCracken – bass guitar
• John Wilson – drums

with:

• Eddie Kennedy - arrangements

Technical

• Eddy Offord - engineer^[5]

References

1. "The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums Of All Time". Classic Rock. Future plc. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
2. Snowden, Don. On the Boards at AllMusic
3. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 549. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
4. "Lester Bangs review of Taste's 'On the Boards' | shadowplays.com". Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
5. "On the Boards - Taste | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

Further reading

• Bangs, Lester (28 May 1970). "On the Boards". Rolling Stone. No. 59. New York. p. 48.

External links

• On the Boards at Discogs (list of releases)