The Peel Sessions (Thin Lizzy album)

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The Peel Sessions
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Live album by
Released1994
Recorded1972–77
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Length61:32
Label Strange Fruit
Producer Tony Wilson, John Walters
Thin Lizzy live albums chronology
BBC Radio One Live in Concert
(1992)
The Peel Sessions
(1994)
The Boys Are Back in Town: Live in Australia
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [2]

The Peel Sessions is an album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1994. This album consists of a series of recordings made for BBC Radio 1, and originally broadcast on the John Peel show.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Whiskey in the Jar" (Trad. arr. Eric Bell, Brian Downey, Phil Lynott) - 5:52
  2. "Rosalie" (Bob Seger) - 3:18
  3. "Suicide" (Lynott) - 5:20
  4. "Emerald" (Lynott, Downey, Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson) - 3:59
  5. "Cowboy Song" (Lynott, Downey) - 5:13
  6. "Jailbreak" (Lynott) - 4:06
  7. "Don't Believe a Word" (Lynott) - 2:48
  8. "Little Darling" (Lynott) - 3:07
  9. "Still in Love With You" (Lynott) - 5:38
  10. "Vagabond of the Western World" (Lynott) - 4:27
  11. "Little Girl in Bloom" (Lynott) - 4:42
  12. "Killer Without a Cause" (Gorham, Lynott) - 3:41
  13. "Bad Reputation" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott) - 2:49
  14. "That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart" (Lynott) - 3:30
  15. "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" (Lynott) - 3:22

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References

  1. Dougan, John. "Thin Lizzy - Peel Sessions review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  2. Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 448. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.