release date: Apr. 30, 1971
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,48]
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 album debut by Thin Lizzy, founded as a quartet but here a trio that had been 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 a blend of hard rock, blues rock and folk rock with some psychedelic rock traits, and in that way appears as strongly inspired by the sound of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (and Cream), especially on "Return of the Farmer's Son".
I don't find it all that interesting except from being the first by this later great band. The music is like sketches of covers, bits from here and there pointing to different sources of inspiration. Lynott's vocal is fine and although guitarist Eric Bell was inspired by The Shadows and Hendrix, he didn't have the same impact as Gary Moore and Scott Gorham later would signify for the band.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]
