By Will McGuirk

Happy to welcome home this week my old pal Rory Taillion. Rory is opening for Billy Raffoul at the Biltmore Theatre Thursday, March 23, along with local sound sensation Haddix. Rory is based now in Ottawa, and he is back on the road after the shutdowns. He is a classically trained rock ‘n roller who counts Tom Waits and Dan Mangan among his influences. And, of course, his parents, too, for naming him Rory after the greatest guitarist of them all, the Irishman Rory Gallagher, and with that over your head, you’ve no choice but to be great.