Description
Thin Lizzy were formed in 1969 by Irish singer/songwriter/bassist Phil Lynott, though not the first band to do so, combined romanticized working-class sentiments with their ferocious, twin-lead guitar attack. As the band’s creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition. Also, as a black man, Lynott was an anomaly in the nearly all-white world of hard rock, and as such imbued much of his work with a sense of alienation; he was the outsider, the romantic guy from the other side of the tracks, a self-styled poet of the lovelorn and downtrodden. His sweeping vision and writerly impulses at times gave way to pretentious songs aspiring to clichéd notions of literary significance, but Lynott’s limitless charisma made even the most misguided moments worth hearing. Thin Lizzys first album was released in 1971 but sold poorly, in spite of valuable radio support from disc jockey Kid Jenson. Their second album, 1972’s ‘Shades Of A Blue Orphanage’, also fared badly, resulting in the band splitting with their management and resorting to a series of Irish gigs to earn money. It would be the B-side track of their first single from their third album Vagabonds Of The Western World that single handedly saved the bands career. The single was ‘Black Boys In The Corner’ and the B-side was Whisky In The Jar which became a massive hit. This rare album includes rare and previously unreleased material from the first hard years. Here you will find early BBC sessions, demos and radio sessions.
Track listing:
1. Look What The Wind Blew In-BBC session 7th of July 1971
2. Return Of the Farmers Son-BBC session 7th of July 1971
3. Black Boys On The Corner-BBC session 14th of November 1972
4. Gonna Creep Up On You-demo 73
5. Things Aint Working Down At The Farm-demo 1970
6. Buffalo Gal-Radio Eireean 16th of January 1972
7. Dublin-Radio Eireean 16th of January 1972
8. Suicide-Radio Eireean 16th of January 1972
9. Going Down-Radio Eireean 16th of January 1972
10. Blue Shadows-Radio Eireean 16th of January 1972