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New Music Tuesday: Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak Deluxe Edition
Feb, 8 2011
In a terribly unfortunate coincidence, today is the release of the Deluxe Edition of Irish super group Thin Lizzy’s 1976 classic album, Jailbreak, while last weekend one of their guitarists, Gary Moore, passed away while vacationing in Spain.
The original album featured nine tracks, the most recognizable of which are the often-covered The Boys Are Back in Town and the title track, “Jailbreak.” The album was the sixth release from the band, which formed in 1969 in Dublin. Easily recognizable to the ear for their twin guitar sound, they’ve been emulated by bands as diverse as Ween and Def Leppard.
In fact, it was Def Leppard’s vocalist, Joe Elliott, who together with original Thin Lizzy member Scott Gorham helped to re-master Jailbreak:Deluxe Edition. In addition they also re-tooled Johnny the Fox and the soon to be released “Live and Dangerous.” Each release now contains along with the re-mastered version of the original a second disc of rare bonus tracks.
Though Moore left Thin Lizzy before Jailbreak’s release, again returning for a two year stint in the late 1970’s, he went on to enjoy a successful solo career and is credited with inspiring the musical styles of numerous rock guitarists. It is clear that Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarists Randy Rhoads or Zakk Wylde took a shine to Moore’s playing, as did Joe Bonamassa, Vivian Campbell and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett.
Yet Moore wasn’t pigeonholed in the rock genre, and in fact experimented with many genres including jazz and country, and released a blues album with The Beatles’ George Harrison in 1990.
-Court
