I often feel like listening to Thin Lizzy these days and it was - TopicsExpress

I often feel like listening to Thin Lizzy these days and it was just the other night I had them on in the car coming south on LSD. I might have seen an import copy of one of their early albums in a North Shore record store back in the early Seventies but I didnt really hear them until I got to Champaign in 74 and WPGU was playing the Nightlife album which was a bit more R&B oriented than the harder rock we usually associate with Lizzy. The studio version of this tear stained ballad features Phil Lynott trading vocals with soulful Scot singer Frankie Miller who put out a number of nice sounding records that never charted over here. Bob Seger recorded one of his songs for Stranger In Town. The solo on Still in Love was handled by Gary Moore, in and out of Lizzy and eventually an Irish music legend on his own terms who left us too soon. After this one ended the other night, it was dont touch the changer time......the cool eroticism of Showdown, also from NIghtlife, the title track of which is kind of a steal of Willie Nelsons classic of the same name. Then onto the Fighting album for Wild One, a melancholy memory of a long gone friend that always touches my soul. After that, on to Jailbreak for the dramatic title track, Cowboy Song and The Boys Are Back in Town of course. On this collection, they use the live version of Rosalie, also on Fightlng originally and a prime Lizzy cover of Segers dedication to the music director (everybodys favorite little record girl) of one of those legendary Detroit rock stations. That cd is still in the changer this am and will probably be the soundtrack of my return flight north up LSD in a little while. I certainly wont be tuning in sports talk for a rehash of last nights horrific Bears loss. Ill take the music instead....it rarely disappoints.