GRÁINNE DUFFY’S SCALDING guitar solos and her roots on the Ulster blues circuit ensured early (and lazy) comparisons with Rory Gallagher. But the Irish singer-songwriter has since plotted her own course, and this year’s album Dirt Woman Blues, her fifth, is infused with the soulful Southern Californian vibes that flowed through sessions in San Diego.
Walter Trout once said that finishing an album feels like giving birth.
[Amused but shocked] He doesn’t know! It’s nothing like giving birth! He should try that experience! This is a lot more cathartic. You get all these emotions and feelings off your chest.
How did the sessions go down?
It was a strange one, because we went to San Diego after
