Thin Lizzy are dropping an acoustic album!
The Acoustic Sessions are a stripped-down versions of their songs from the archives of the late Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey. Due out on January 24, Eric Bell reimagined the songs by adding acoustic guitar to tracks from the 50th-anniversary super deluxe of Thin Lizzy's 1971 self-titled debut, Shades of a Blue Orphanage and Vagabonds of the Western World.
"I remember recording 'Eire' from our debut album Thin Lizzy in 1971. I wrote the main guitar part first on acoustic and then we built it up from there. I played the 12-string acoustic throughout the track and introduced the electric on top," Bell said in a statement. "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 favorite 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."