Take Me Down to Kickback City: The Noir of Ian Rankin and Rory Gallagher
By Thomas Pluck
January 20, 2017I didn’t even know who Rory Gallagher was until I got a postcard from Ken Bruen. To my shame, my knowledge of Irish music is limited. I loved the Pogues but didn’t realize Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy came from the Emerald Isle until I should’ve known better. I lived a bizarrely exposed and yet…