release date: Apr. 30, 1971
format: digital
[album rate: 2 / 5] [2,08]
producer: Scott English
label: Decca Records - nationality: Ireland
Track highlights: 5. "Look What the Wind Blew In" (3 / 5) - 7. "Return of the Farmer's Son"
Studio debut album by Thin Lizzy, originally a quartet but now a trio formed in Dublin, Ireland consisting of Phil Lynott [Philip Parris Lynott] on vocals, bass guitar and acoustic guitar, Eric Bell on lead guitar and twelve-string guitar, and with Brian Downey on drums and percussion. The style is hard rock and blues rock with some psychedelic rock traits, and in that way touch on the sound of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (and Cream), especially on "Return of the Farmer's Son".
I don't find it very interesting except from being the first by this great band. The music is like sketches of covers, bits from here and there. Lynott's vocal is fine but guitarist Eric Bell is far from what Gary Moore and Scott Gorham later would signify for the band.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]
