Producers: Nick Tauber
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AllMusic · 3.5 / 5 · · 2026-07-26 07:18:18
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View albumEveryDisc · 3.5 / 5 · · 2018-01-16 08:34:12
View albumIf you have listened to later and more famous Thin Lizzy albums before this, the first thing you will notice here is Lynott's vocals with an unaccustomed hoarseness. His voice is still somehow not brutal and rough enough and sounds more romantic and strained. This is not yet that Thin Lizzy, but the outlines are already very strong, including excellent playing by Eric Bell while still on one guitar. The band will move to the format of two guitarists a little later. And Eric will not be among them. Here, sometimes Irish motifs and also prog-rock, which was very fashionable at that time, break through. And what can you do if the band's first hit - Whiskey in the jar - is an Irish folk song? Let it go as a bonus here, but since the appearance of the 1991 CD edition, this bonus is an integral part of the album, like the little-known, but excellent and riffy Black Boys on the Corner. Of the standard songs, I think that the hit Vagabond of the western world is known to the majority. The Hero and Madman and the driving The rocker are also good. The bar had already been set very high, and the band was able to hold it subsequently.
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