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Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak

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Label: Vertigo Records
Released: 1976.03.26
Time:
 35:52
Category: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Producer(s): John Alcock
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.thinlizzyband.com
Appears with: Name
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Jailbreak (Phil Lynott) - 4:01
[2] Angel from the Coast (Phiol Lynott, Brian Robertson) - 3:03
[3] Running Back (Phil Lynott) - 3:13
[4] Romeo and the Lonely Girl (Phil Lynott) - 3:55
[5] Warriors (Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham) - 4:09
[6] The Boys Are Back in Town (Phil Lynott) - 4:27
[7] Fight or Fall (Phil Lynott) - 3:45
[8] Cowboy Song (Phil Lynott, Brian Downey) - 5:16
[9] Emerald (Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Brian Robertson, Phil Lynott) - 4:03

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Phil Lynott - Bass Guitar, Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Scott Gorham - Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Brian Robertson - Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Brian Downey - Drums, Percussion

Tim Hinkley - Keyboards on [3]

John Alcock - Producer

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Recorded in December 1975 - January 1976, Ramport Studios, London.



Thin Lizzy found their trademark twin-guitar sound on 1975's Fighting, but it was on its 1976 successor, Jailbreak, where the band truly took flight. Unlike the leap between Night Life and Fighting, there is not a great distance between Jailbreak and its predecessor. If anything, the album was more of a culmination of everything that came before, as Phil Lynott hit a peak as a songwriter just as guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson pioneered an intertwined, dual-lead guitar interplay that was one of the most distinctive sounds of '70s rock, and one of the most influential. Lynott no longer let Gorham and Robertson contribute individual songs - they co-wrote, but had no individual credits - which helps tighten up the album, giving it a cohesive personality, namely Lynott's rough rebel with a heart of a poet. Lynott loves turning the commonplace into legend - or bringing myth into the modern world, as he does on "Cowboy Song" or, to a lesser extent, "Romeo and the Lonely Girl" - and this myth-making is married to an exceptional eye for details; when the boys are back in town, they don't just come back to a local bar, they're down at Dino's, picking up girls and driving the old men crazy. This gives his lovingly florid songs, crammed with specifics and overflowing with life, a universality that's hammered home by the vicious, primal, and precise attack of the band. Thin Lizzy is tough as rhino skin and as brutal as bandits, but it's leavened by Lynott's light touch as a singer, which is almost seductive in its croon. This gives Jailbreak a dimension of richness that sustains, but there's such kinetic energy to the band that it still sounds immediate no matter how many times it's played. Either one would make it a classic, but both qualities in one record makes it a truly exceptional album.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Jailbreak is the sixth studio album by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1976. It proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the US. The singles include "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", the latter being Thin Lizzy's biggest hit.

Initially, the song "Running Back" was chosen to be a single ahead of "The Boys Are Back in Town", the latter being seen as possibly too aggressive for some radio stations to play. Frontman and songwriter Phil Lynott and producer John Alcock decided to employ session musicians to add more commercial elements to some of the tracks to try to produce a hit single, and Tim Hinkley was brought in to add keyboard parts to "Running Back". Guitarist Brian Robertson was against the idea, as he liked the song as it had originally been arranged, in a blues format with his own additions of piano and bottleneck guitar. He later said, "I took enormous offence to. I couldn't understand why they'd pay this guy a fortune just for playing what he did. Listen to it and tell me it's not bollocks." Robertson did not play on the finished version of the song and Hinkley is not credited on the album sleeve. Lynott said at the time that "Running Back" was "very much influenced by Van Morrison. I really like that song." Thirty-five years later, Robertson recorded his own versions of the song on his 2011 album Diamonds and Dirt.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described Jailbreak as a "truly exceptional album", with "a dimension of richness that sustains, but there's such kinetic energy to the band that it still sounds immediate no matter how many times it's played". Highlighting Lynott's songs as "lovingly florid... crammed with specifics and overflowing with life", he claimed that Gorham and Robertson's guitar work is "intertwined, dual-lead guitar interplay that was one of the most distinctive sounds of '70s rock". Conversely, Robert Christgau likened the album's songs to Bruce Springsteen cast-offs, with Lynott's lyrical ideas as "boring", and Gorham's guitar lines as "second-hand". Stuart Bailie of Classic Rock magazine, reviewing the 2011 Thin Lizzy reissues, refers to Christgau's statements writing that both Springsteen and Lynott "were indebted to Van Morrson and his Celtic soul" and remarks how on Jailbreak "Lynott's best attributes were coming on strong."

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