Is what’s being heralded around the park. Closer reading suggests that this ‘acoustic’ album consists mostly of Eric Bell re-doing the guitars on demos for the first three Thin Lizzy albums.
“This was useful in the studio in Belfast recently where we recorded fresh guitar parts to allow us to create new Thin Lizzy acoustic versions of some of our favourite songs, by recreating those original acoustic parts and adding the vocals which Philip laid down on the day and those original drum parts which Brian came up with in the original recording sessions.”
Has the world really been holding its breath for an acoustic version of Shades of a Blue Orphanage or am I being less than generous if I infer that someone at the record company has spotted an opportunity for a bit of barrel scraping?
I should stress that I haven’t heard any of these ‘new’ recordings, they may well be sublime.