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Ricky Warwick - Hearts On Trees (2CD) (2016)









Year : 2016
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 285 mb

Info:

RICKY WARWICK has been a very busy man lately. Over the past year, he has co-written and recorded the second album for Black Star Riders (the UK top 20 album ‘The Killer Instinct’) and toured extensively to support that release. In addition, he has recorded not one but TWO new solo albums to be released on a 2CD pack on Feb 26, 2016 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment.There's the funny titled "When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)" and "Hearts On Trees", the first in full-rock mode, the other acoustically based.We have the two sides of Ricky Warwick here, and whichever way you look, it’s incredible...Perhaps it’s all down to making up for lost time, maybe Ricky Warwick is driven to keep working because he knows what it was like when he was in his wilderness years after The Almighty broke up and before the whole Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders roadshow. Possibly that’s why when he’s not fronting one of the best hard rock band currently on the planet, he’s (usually) criss-crossing the country playing acoustic shows, and in his downtime, making brilliant solo albums.These are his fourth and technically they aren’t new at all, having first seen the light of day via the Pledge Music site about a year ago, but "When Patsy..." – the rock side – and “…..Trees” – it’s acoustic counterpart – were, quite simply too good not to get a full release (and with bonus tracks).Warwick’s solo albums have always allowed him a more personal expression. That’s even more true here, as most of the songs are written with his childhood friend Sam Robinson, meaning even on “"When Patsy Cline Was Crazy...” songs like the title track and “Toffee Town” are made from real shared experience.He’s able to call on plenty of his more famous mates too, Andy Cairns (Therapy?) co-wrote and supplies backing vocals on the superb “Celebrating Sinking”, Ginger Wildheart does likewise on the angry of “Johnny Gringo’s Last Ride” and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol Band) is the drummer and on the heads down ebullience of “If You’re Not Gonna Leave Me (I’ll Find Someone Who Will).”The bands that have been the pillars of his career are represented in spirit too, “Son Of The Wind” is shot through with the same aggression and determination as The Almighty used to be, while the closing “Yesteryear” is the type of magnificent stuff that Black Star Riders have made their own recently. “Hearts On Trees” on the other hand, is in many respects a continuation of the folksy stylings of his previous solo album. This more acoustic affords the opportunity for darker reflection,”Presbyterian Homesick Blues”, for example, concerns a nation paralysed by religion, the stunning “Tank McCulloch Saturdays” casts the singer “walking down the Newtonards Road” and “Way Too Cold For Snow” is a heartbreakingly claustrophobic examination of a broken relationship.Many of the cuts on “Hearts On Trees” are character driven. The title track (featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliot – who helped Ricky make his first solo record when times were really tough), and "Schwaben Redoubt” is a wonderful duet with Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers) and sees two Irishmen a long way from home.But it’s “Said Samson To Goliath” that really catches the eye here, and proves if nothing else that if he’d fancied carving a career out as a singer-songwriter then Warwick could easily have been the Northern Irish Steve Earle with “The Year Of Living Dangerously” (a song that almost shares its title with one of Earle’s).The choice of cover gives away the mindset here, “Psycho” originally written by traditional blues man Leon Payne, is dark desperate and unsettling – it’s also very, very good.Apart from the mentioned, this double record boasts an array of acclaimed musicians with guests such as Damon Johnson (Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders), Nathan Connolly (Snow Patrol), and Richard Fortus (Guns ‘N’ Roses / The Dead Daisies).It takes real talent to pull off a double album. Most can’t, and you end up wishing they’d made one very good record and cut out the flab. There’s none of that here. Really there’s a simple test. If they were stand alone records would they make the grade? Absolutely. Which is best? That’s tougher. Better to say that the pair together are hugely ambitious, but that ambition, whichever one of the albums you choose, it’s hard to find a single thing to fault. For Ricky Warwick these albums are a (solo) career high. Brilliant stuff.

Line-Up:

Ricky Warwick - vocals, guitars
Gary Sullivan - drums
Robbie Crane (Black Star Riders) - bass
Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission) - guitar

Tracklist:

CD1: "When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)"

01. The Road To Damascus Street
02. Celebrating Sinking
03. When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)
04. Toffee Town
05. That's Where The Story Ends
06. Johnny Ringo's Last Ride
07. Gold Along The Cariboo
08. The Son Of The Wind
09. If Your Not Gonna Leave Me (I'll Find Someone Who Will)
10. Yesteryear

Bonus Tracks:

11. Ghost Town Road
12. The Whiskey Song
13. Tank Mccullough Saturdays (Alternate Version)

CD2: "Hearts On Trees"

01. Presbyterian Homesick Blues
02. Tank Mccullough Saturdays
03. Psycho
04. Hearts On Trees
05. Said Samson To Goliath
06. Way Too Cool For Snow
07. Schwaben Redoubt
08. The Year Of Living Dangerously
09. Disasters
10. 82

Bonus Tracks:

11. Love Owes
12. I Can See My Life (From Here)
13. The Ugly Truth
14. Hell Or Highwater
15. Eight Bells




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Ricky Warwick - When Life Was Hard And Fast (2CD) (Deluxe Edition) (2021)













Year : 2021
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 165 mb

Bio:

RICKY WARWICK has been a very busy man lately. Over the past year, he has co-written and recorded the second album for Black Star Riders (the UK top 20 album ‘The Killer Instinct’) and toured extensively to support that release. In addition, he has recorded not one but TWO new solo albums to be released on a 2CD pack on Feb 26, 2016 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment.There's the funny titled "When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)" and "Hearts On Trees", the first in full-rock mode, the other acoustically based.We have the two sides of Ricky Warwick here, and whichever way you look, it’s incredible...Perhaps it’s all down to making up for lost time, maybe Ricky Warwick is driven to keep working because he knows what it was like when he was in his wilderness years after The Almighty broke up and before the whole Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders roadshow. Possibly that’s why when he’s not fronting one of the best hard rock band currently on the planet, he’s (usually) criss-crossing the country playing acoustic shows, and in his downtime, making brilliant solo albums.These are his fourth and technically they aren’t new at all, having first seen the light of day via the Pledge Music site about a year ago, but "When Patsy..." – the rock side – and “…..Trees” – it’s acoustic counterpart – were, quite simply too good not to get a full release (and with bonus tracks).Warwick’s solo albums have always allowed him a more personal expression. That’s even more true here, as most of the songs are written with his childhood friend Sam Robinson, meaning even on “"When Patsy Cline Was Crazy...” songs like the title track and “Toffee Town” are made from real shared experience.He’s able to call on plenty of his more famous mates too, Andy Cairns (Therapy?) co-wrote and supplies backing vocals on the superb “Celebrating Sinking”, Ginger Wildheart does likewise on the angry of “Johnny Gringo’s Last Ride” and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol Band) is the drummer and on the heads down ebullience of “If You’re Not Gonna Leave Me (I’ll Find Someone Who Will).”The bands that have been the pillars of his career are represented in spirit too, “Son Of The Wind” is shot through with the same aggression and determination as The Almighty used to be, while the closing “Yesteryear” is the type of magnificent stuff that Black Star Riders have made their own recently. “Hearts On Trees” on the other hand, is in many respects a continuation of the folksy stylings of his previous solo album. This more acoustic affords the opportunity for darker reflection,”Presbyterian Homesick Blues”, for example, concerns a nation paralysed by religion, the stunning “Tank McCulloch Saturdays” casts the singer “walking down the Newtonards Road” and “Way Too Cold For Snow” is a heartbreakingly claustrophobic examination of a broken relationship.Many of the cuts on “Hearts On Trees” are character driven. The title track (featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliot – who helped Ricky make his first solo record when times were really tough), and "Schwaben Redoubt” is a wonderful duet with Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers) and sees two Irishmen a long way from home.But it’s “Said Samson To Goliath” that really catches the eye here, and proves if nothing else that if he’d fancied carving a career out as a singer-songwriter then Warwick could easily have been the Northern Irish Steve Earle with “The Year Of Living Dangerously” (a song that almost shares its title with one of Earle’s).The choice of cover gives away the mindset here, “Psycho” originally written by traditional blues man Leon Payne, is dark desperate and unsettling – it’s also very, very good.Apart from the mentioned, this double record boasts an array of acclaimed musicians with guests such as Damon Johnson (Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders), Nathan Connolly (Snow Patrol), and Richard Fortus (Guns ‘N’ Roses / The Dead Daisies).It takes real talent to pull off a double album. Most can’t, and you end up wishing they’d made one very good record and cut out the flab. There’s none of that here. Really there’s a simple test. If they were stand alone records would they make the grade? Absolutely. Which is best? That’s tougher. Better to say that the pair together are hugely ambitious, but that ambition, whichever one of the albums you choose, it’s hard to find a single thing to fault. For Ricky Warwick these albums are a (solo) career high. Brilliant stuff.

Album:

“The true spirt of rock n’ roll is a relentless pursuit that consumes me on a daily basis. Chasing after it, making this record was a race well run” - Ricky Warwick.Following 2016’s lauded ‘When Patsy Cline Was Crazy... And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues’, Warwick is getting ready to unleash his 5th solo album in 2021. Titled ‘When Life Was Hard And Fast‘, it was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Nelson (ex-Buckcherry), who also co-wrote the majority of the songs on the record with Warwick. Also, once again, Warwick tapped some of his closest friends for guest appearances on the record, including Andy Taylor (Duran Duran & Power Station) Luke Morley (Thunder), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Dizzy Reed (Guns n Roses). Ricky also duets with his daughter Pepper on the song ‘Time Don’t Seem To Matter‘.For those intrigued by the album cover, it depicts a crash scene from the famous Ards TT Motor Car Race in County Down Northern Ireland. The race ran from 1928 until 1936 was watched by over 250,000 spectators annually. The embankment in the photograph that the spectators are on is actually a field belonging to Ricky’s Great Grandfather’s Farm, which he grew up on for the first fourteen years of his life.

Line-Up:

Ricky Warwick - vocals, guitars - See also: The Almighty, Black Star Riders, ex-(sic), ex-Circus Diablo, ex-Thin Lizzy
Gary Sullivan - drums
Robbie Crane (Black Star Riders) - bass
Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission) - guitar

Tracklist:

CD1: When Life Was Hard And Fast

01. When Life Was Hard and Fast
02. You Don't Love Me
03. I'd Rather Be Hit
04. Gunslinger
05. Never Corner A Rat
06. Time Don't Seem To Matter
07. Fighting Heart
08. I Don't Feel At Home
09. Still Alive
10. Clown Of Misery
11. You're My Rock 'n Roll

CD2: Stairwell Troubadour

01. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (DEAD OR ALIVE cover)
02. Ooops!...I Did It Again (BRITNEY SPEARS cover)
03. Summertime Blues (EDDIE COCHRAN cover)
04. 1000 Dollar Car (BOTTLE ROCKETS cover)
05. Cocaine Blues (JOHNNY CASH cover)
06. I Don't Want To Grow Up (RAMONES cover)
07. I Fought The Law (THE CLASH cover)
08. Burning Love (ELVIS PRESLEY cover)
09. Jesus Loves You...But I Don't (THE ALMIGHTY cover)
10. Wrathchild (IRON MAIDEN cover)




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Ricky Warwick - When Life Was Hard And Fast (2CD) (Japan Edition) (2021)













Year : 2021 (Japan Edition)
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 170 mb

Bio:

RICKY WARWICK has been a very busy man lately. Over the past year, he has co-written and recorded the second album for Black Star Riders (the UK top 20 album ‘The Killer Instinct’) and toured extensively to support that release. In addition, he has recorded not one but TWO new solo albums to be released on a 2CD pack on Feb 26, 2016 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment.There's the funny titled "When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)" and "Hearts On Trees", the first in full-rock mode, the other acoustically based.We have the two sides of Ricky Warwick here, and whichever way you look, it’s incredible...Perhaps it’s all down to making up for lost time, maybe Ricky Warwick is driven to keep working because he knows what it was like when he was in his wilderness years after The Almighty broke up and before the whole Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders roadshow. Possibly that’s why when he’s not fronting one of the best hard rock band currently on the planet, he’s (usually) criss-crossing the country playing acoustic shows, and in his downtime, making brilliant solo albums.These are his fourth and technically they aren’t new at all, having first seen the light of day via the Pledge Music site about a year ago, but "When Patsy..." – the rock side – and “…..Trees” – it’s acoustic counterpart – were, quite simply too good not to get a full release (and with bonus tracks).Warwick’s solo albums have always allowed him a more personal expression. That’s even more true here, as most of the songs are written with his childhood friend Sam Robinson, meaning even on “"When Patsy Cline Was Crazy...” songs like the title track and “Toffee Town” are made from real shared experience.He’s able to call on plenty of his more famous mates too, Andy Cairns (Therapy?) co-wrote and supplies backing vocals on the superb “Celebrating Sinking”, Ginger Wildheart does likewise on the angry of “Johnny Gringo’s Last Ride” and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol Band) is the drummer and on the heads down ebullience of “If You’re Not Gonna Leave Me (I’ll Find Someone Who Will).”The bands that have been the pillars of his career are represented in spirit too, “Son Of The Wind” is shot through with the same aggression and determination as The Almighty used to be, while the closing “Yesteryear” is the type of magnificent stuff that Black Star Riders have made their own recently. “Hearts On Trees” on the other hand, is in many respects a continuation of the folksy stylings of his previous solo album. This more acoustic affords the opportunity for darker reflection,”Presbyterian Homesick Blues”, for example, concerns a nation paralysed by religion, the stunning “Tank McCulloch Saturdays” casts the singer “walking down the Newtonards Road” and “Way Too Cold For Snow” is a heartbreakingly claustrophobic examination of a broken relationship.Many of the cuts on “Hearts On Trees” are character driven. The title track (featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliot – who helped Ricky make his first solo record when times were really tough), and "Schwaben Redoubt” is a wonderful duet with Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers) and sees two Irishmen a long way from home.But it’s “Said Samson To Goliath” that really catches the eye here, and proves if nothing else that if he’d fancied carving a career out as a singer-songwriter then Warwick could easily have been the Northern Irish Steve Earle with “The Year Of Living Dangerously” (a song that almost shares its title with one of Earle’s).The choice of cover gives away the mindset here, “Psycho” originally written by traditional blues man Leon Payne, is dark desperate and unsettling – it’s also very, very good.Apart from the mentioned, this double record boasts an array of acclaimed musicians with guests such as Damon Johnson (Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders), Nathan Connolly (Snow Patrol), and Richard Fortus (Guns ‘N’ Roses / The Dead Daisies).It takes real talent to pull off a double album. Most can’t, and you end up wishing they’d made one very good record and cut out the flab. There’s none of that here. Really there’s a simple test. If they were stand alone records would they make the grade? Absolutely. Which is best? That’s tougher. Better to say that the pair together are hugely ambitious, but that ambition, whichever one of the albums you choose, it’s hard to find a single thing to fault. For Ricky Warwick these albums are a (solo) career high. Brilliant stuff.

Album:

“The true spirt of rock n’ roll is a relentless pursuit that consumes me on a daily basis. Chasing after it, making this record was a race well run” - Ricky Warwick.Following 2016’s lauded ‘When Patsy Cline Was Crazy... And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues’, Warwick is getting ready to unleash his 5th solo album in 2021. Titled ‘When Life Was Hard And Fast‘, it was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Nelson (ex-Buckcherry), who also co-wrote the majority of the songs on the record with Warwick. Also, once again, Warwick tapped some of his closest friends for guest appearances on the record, including Andy Taylor (Duran Duran & Power Station) Luke Morley (Thunder), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Dizzy Reed (Guns n Roses). Ricky also duets with his daughter Pepper on the song ‘Time Don’t Seem To Matter‘.For those intrigued by the album cover, it depicts a crash scene from the famous Ards TT Motor Car Race in County Down Northern Ireland. The race ran from 1928 until 1936 was watched by over 250,000 spectators annually. The embankment in the photograph that the spectators are on is actually a field belonging to Ricky’s Great Grandfather’s Farm, which he grew up on for the first fourteen years of his life.

Line-Up:

Ricky Warwick - vocals, guitars - See also: The Almighty, Black Star Riders, ex-(sic), ex-Circus Diablo, ex-Thin Lizzy
Gary Sullivan - drums
Robbie Crane (Black Star Riders) - bass
Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission) - guitar

Tracklist:

CD1: When Life Was Hard And Fast

01. When Life Was Hard and Fast
02. You Don't Love Me
03. I'd Rather Be Hit
04. Gunslinger
05. Never Corner A Rat
06. Time Don't Seem To Matter
07. Fighting Heart
08. I Don't Feel At Home
09. Still Alive
10. Clown Of Misery
11. You're My Rock 'n' Roll

CD2: Stairwell Troubadour

01. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Dead Or Alive cover)
02. Oops!...I Did It Again (Britney Spears cover)
03. Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran cover)
04. 1000 Dollar Car (Bottle Rockets cover)
05. Cocaine Blues (Johnny Cash cover)
06. I Don't Want To Grow Up (Ramones cover)
07. I Fought The Law (The Clash cover)
08. Burning Love (Elvis Presley cover)
09. Jesus Love You... But I Don't (The Almighty cover)
10. Wrathchild (Iron Maiden cover)




Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/

Ricky Warwick - Blood Ties (2025)











Year : 2025
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 94 mb

Bio:

RICKY WARWICK has been a very busy man lately. Over the past year, he has co-written and recorded the second album for Black Star Riders (the UK top 20 album ‘The Killer Instinct’) and toured extensively to support that release. In addition, he has recorded not one but TWO new solo albums to be released on a 2CD pack on Feb 26, 2016 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment.There's the funny titled "When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)" and "Hearts On Trees", the first in full-rock mode, the other acoustically based.We have the two sides of Ricky Warwick here, and whichever way you look, it’s incredible...Perhaps it’s all down to making up for lost time, maybe Ricky Warwick is driven to keep working because he knows what it was like when he was in his wilderness years after The Almighty broke up and before the whole Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders roadshow. Possibly that’s why when he’s not fronting one of the best hard rock band currently on the planet, he’s (usually) criss-crossing the country playing acoustic shows, and in his downtime, making brilliant solo albums.These are his fourth and technically they aren’t new at all, having first seen the light of day via the Pledge Music site about a year ago, but "When Patsy..." – the rock side – and “…..Trees” – it’s acoustic counterpart – were, quite simply too good not to get a full release (and with bonus tracks).Warwick’s solo albums have always allowed him a more personal expression. That’s even more true here, as most of the songs are written with his childhood friend Sam Robinson, meaning even on “"When Patsy Cline Was Crazy...” songs like the title track and “Toffee Town” are made from real shared experience.He’s able to call on plenty of his more famous mates too, Andy Cairns (Therapy?) co-wrote and supplies backing vocals on the superb “Celebrating Sinking”, Ginger Wildheart does likewise on the angry of “Johnny Gringo’s Last Ride” and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol Band) is the drummer and on the heads down ebullience of “If You’re Not Gonna Leave Me (I’ll Find Someone Who Will).”The bands that have been the pillars of his career are represented in spirit too, “Son Of The Wind” is shot through with the same aggression and determination as The Almighty used to be, while the closing “Yesteryear” is the type of magnificent stuff that Black Star Riders have made their own recently. “Hearts On Trees” on the other hand, is in many respects a continuation of the folksy stylings of his previous solo album. This more acoustic affords the opportunity for darker reflection,”Presbyterian Homesick Blues”, for example, concerns a nation paralysed by religion, the stunning “Tank McCulloch Saturdays” casts the singer “walking down the Newtonards Road” and “Way Too Cold For Snow” is a heartbreakingly claustrophobic examination of a broken relationship.Many of the cuts on “Hearts On Trees” are character driven. The title track (featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliot – who helped Ricky make his first solo record when times were really tough), and "Schwaben Redoubt” is a wonderful duet with Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers) and sees two Irishmen a long way from home.But it’s “Said Samson To Goliath” that really catches the eye here, and proves if nothing else that if he’d fancied carving a career out as a singer-songwriter then Warwick could easily have been the Northern Irish Steve Earle with “The Year Of Living Dangerously” (a song that almost shares its title with one of Earle’s).The choice of cover gives away the mindset here, “Psycho” originally written by traditional blues man Leon Payne, is dark desperate and unsettling – it’s also very, very good.Apart from the mentioned, this double record boasts an array of acclaimed musicians with guests such as Damon Johnson (Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders), Nathan Connolly (Snow Patrol), and Richard Fortus (Guns ‘N’ Roses / The Dead Daisies).It takes real talent to pull off a double album. Most can’t, and you end up wishing they’d made one very good record and cut out the flab. There’s none of that here. Really there’s a simple test. If they were stand alone records would they make the grade? Absolutely. Which is best? That’s tougher. Better to say that the pair together are hugely ambitious, but that ambition, whichever one of the albums you choose, it’s hard to find a single thing to fault. For Ricky Warwick these albums are a (solo) career high. Brilliant stuff.

Album:

The journey from Belfast to Los Angeles, entwined with a lifetime spent at the coalface of bona fide rock n’ roll, has made for a heady cocktail of creativity and popularity. Ricky Warwick, founder of The Almighty, Black Star Riders, The Fighting Hearts,acclaimed and respectful frontman of Thin Lizzy since 2011, remains unstoppable. This time he’s on a solo run with the release of his new solo album “Blood Ties” out on March 14th, 2025, via Earache Records.Over the course of almost forty years, one of the hardest working and nicest guys in rock, Ricky Warwick has built a great reputation through his music with different bands as well as his solo outings. His first solo album - Tattoos and Alibis - is now more than twenty years old and he shows absolutely no sign of slowing down. No stranger to heartfelt lyrics and personal statements, Blood Ties finds Warwick in a life-affirming mood. “I mined a deep seam to make this record, it’s in the darkest, most uncharted of places where the real energy is to be found.” Ricky notes. “There comes a time in everyone’s life when the game is afoot, and the decision is taken to face down and exorcise personal demons.”Opening track, Angels of Desolation, is a fast-paced upbeat rocker that immediately gets the pulse racing. Warwick knows how to write a catchy hook and there are a plethora throughout the length of Blood Ties. Angels of Desolation is the perfect introduction to an album that is amongst the most rocking of his solo offerings. Rise and Grind – which opens with an infectious bassline – is an altogether grittier track. Featuring Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke, it is crammed with crunching guitar riffs, some soaring guitar and a ballsy attitude. While Warwick’s voice always retains his love of melody, he adopts a slightly bluesier approach here.First single from the album Don’t Leave Me In The Dark is a duet with the legendary Lita Ford. Ricky comments, “This was the first song written for the album and details the intricacies of love and the battles we fight to stay in it. When I wrote the lyrics, I knew right away the song needed to be performed as a duet. Lita instantly sprang to mind.” The interplay between Warwick and Ford works wonderfully and their voices naturally compliment each other. When you’re too tired to fight / You don’t care whose side you’re on / And you’ve given everything / But you still end up alone / Yeah! / It’s like a knife in the back / And a dagger through your heart / I left you in the light / Don’t leave me in the dark. Ford was honoured to be asked to join Ricky on the track. “When I got the call to record a duet with Ricky Warwick my first thought was about the legacy that this man carries. Ricky’s image and voice is as dark and mysterious as his black leather and black Les Paul, but at the same time, a super cool and mega-talented artist.” While lyrically simpler and more straightforwardly melodic than much of the album, it is well positioned after the first two tracks and adds a different dimension to Blood Ties.Fourth track The Crickets Stayed in Clovis gives instant Thin Lizzy vibes from its first moments, a deliberate move from Warwick who “unashamedly fired up the harmony guitars on this one.” Using the metaphor of the ill-fated plane journey that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, Warwick describes life as games of chance. “Sometimes it’s better to play the long game and not be envious of others, as you never know what tomorrow brings.” Any fan of Thin Lizzy is going to love this track and due to his time with the band, it is easy to allow Ricky this indulgence. Pacy and a track that sticks in the mind after the first listen, The Crickets Stayed in Clovis will go down well in the live arena and is also a good one to play loud in the car. Continuing the variety on the album, Don’t Sell Your Soul To Fall In Love is initially a more relaxed soft rocker, tinges of the Eagles coming through during the introduction and the verses. The choruses and excellent guitar solo raise the tension once again.A four song run of faster paced tracks restores the tempo that dipped a little on Don’t Sell Your Soul To Fall In Love. Dead And Gone (complete with a humorous spoken word opening), The Hell of Me and You – which features The Cult’s Billy Duffy – Crocodile Tears and Wishing Your Life Away are all hook laden tracks that evoke the listener's smile. Warwick sounds like he is having a great time on the album and the optimism that he wanted to inject throughout Blood Ties is obvious. “The situation finally seemed right to deal with these and try to express my feelings, fears and anxieties in as uplifting a way as possible, turning negativity into positivity. To do that I had to make sure the guitars were turned up way beyond driven.” With the exception of bonus track Not My Circus (one of the best tracks here, bringing Just Add Life era The Almighty to mind), The Town That Didn’t Stare bookends the album, revisiting the infectious pace of Angels of Desolation.With Blood Ties, Ricky Warwick has produced another excellent collection of songs. He is never going to produce the most musically complex album you are likely to hear but in terms of pure entertainment, hooks galore and his perpetually spirited enthusiasm for music, there are few better. As you might expect, it feels like an amalgamation of the styles from the different bands Warwick has been part of over the years: the confident strut of Thin Lizzy, the defiant vibe of The Almighty and the engaging melodic allure of Black Star Riders. More electric than acoustic based than some of his solo albums, Blood Ties shows that Ricky Warwick has lost none of his edge and his voice sounds as good as it ever has. A perfect album for the arrival of sunnier weather; crank up the volume and enjoy.

Line-Up:

Ricky Warwick - vocals, guitars - See also: The Almighty, Black Star Riders, ex-(sic), ex-Circus Diablo, ex-Thin Lizzy
Gary Sullivan - drums
Robbie Crane (Black Star Riders) - bass
Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission) - guitar

Tracklist:

01. Angels of Desolation
02. Rise and Grind (feat. Charlie Starr)
03. Don’t Leave Me in the Dark (feat. Lita Ford)
04. The Crickets Stayed in Clovis
05. Don’t Sell Your Soul to Fall in Love
06. Dead and Gone
07. The Hell of Me and You (feat. Billy Duffy)
08. Crocodile Tears
09. Wishing Your Life Away
10. The Town That Didn’t Stare




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Ricky Warwick - Fire & Vengeance (2026)













Year : 2026
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 94 mb

Bio:

RICKY WARWICK has been a very busy man lately. Over the past year, he has co-written and recorded the second album for Black Star Riders (the UK top 20 album ‘The Killer Instinct’) and toured extensively to support that release. In addition, he has recorded not one but TWO new solo albums to be released on a 2CD pack on Feb 26, 2016 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment.There's the funny titled "When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)" and "Hearts On Trees", the first in full-rock mode, the other acoustically based.We have the two sides of Ricky Warwick here, and whichever way you look, it’s incredible...Perhaps it’s all down to making up for lost time, maybe Ricky Warwick is driven to keep working because he knows what it was like when he was in his wilderness years after The Almighty broke up and before the whole Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders roadshow. Possibly that’s why when he’s not fronting one of the best hard rock band currently on the planet, he’s (usually) criss-crossing the country playing acoustic shows, and in his downtime, making brilliant solo albums.These are his fourth and technically they aren’t new at all, having first seen the light of day via the Pledge Music site about a year ago, but "When Patsy..." – the rock side – and “…..Trees” – it’s acoustic counterpart – were, quite simply too good not to get a full release (and with bonus tracks).Warwick’s solo albums have always allowed him a more personal expression. That’s even more true here, as most of the songs are written with his childhood friend Sam Robinson, meaning even on “"When Patsy Cline Was Crazy...” songs like the title track and “Toffee Town” are made from real shared experience.He’s able to call on plenty of his more famous mates too, Andy Cairns (Therapy?) co-wrote and supplies backing vocals on the superb “Celebrating Sinking”, Ginger Wildheart does likewise on the angry of “Johnny Gringo’s Last Ride” and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol Band) is the drummer and on the heads down ebullience of “If You’re Not Gonna Leave Me (I’ll Find Someone Who Will).”The bands that have been the pillars of his career are represented in spirit too, “Son Of The Wind” is shot through with the same aggression and determination as The Almighty used to be, while the closing “Yesteryear” is the type of magnificent stuff that Black Star Riders have made their own recently. “Hearts On Trees” on the other hand, is in many respects a continuation of the folksy stylings of his previous solo album. This more acoustic affords the opportunity for darker reflection,”Presbyterian Homesick Blues”, for example, concerns a nation paralysed by religion, the stunning “Tank McCulloch Saturdays” casts the singer “walking down the Newtonards Road” and “Way Too Cold For Snow” is a heartbreakingly claustrophobic examination of a broken relationship.Many of the cuts on “Hearts On Trees” are character driven. The title track (featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliot – who helped Ricky make his first solo record when times were really tough), and "Schwaben Redoubt” is a wonderful duet with Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers) and sees two Irishmen a long way from home.But it’s “Said Samson To Goliath” that really catches the eye here, and proves if nothing else that if he’d fancied carving a career out as a singer-songwriter then Warwick could easily have been the Northern Irish Steve Earle with “The Year Of Living Dangerously” (a song that almost shares its title with one of Earle’s).The choice of cover gives away the mindset here, “Psycho” originally written by traditional blues man Leon Payne, is dark desperate and unsettling – it’s also very, very good.Apart from the mentioned, this double record boasts an array of acclaimed musicians with guests such as Damon Johnson (Thin Lizzy / Black Star Riders), Nathan Connolly (Snow Patrol), and Richard Fortus (Guns ‘N’ Roses / The Dead Daisies).It takes real talent to pull off a double album. Most can’t, and you end up wishing they’d made one very good record and cut out the flab. There’s none of that here. Really there’s a simple test. If they were stand alone records would they make the grade? Absolutely. Which is best? That’s tougher. Better to say that the pair together are hugely ambitious, but that ambition, whichever one of the albums you choose, it’s hard to find a single thing to fault. For Ricky Warwick these albums are a (solo) career high. Brilliant stuff.

Album:

Ricky Warwick is one of rock’n’roll’s last true rebels. Whether singing and playing guitar with gasoline-fuelled rockers The Almighty, fronting the resurrected Thin Lizzy and their subsequent incarnation Black Star Riders, or performing as an acclaimed solo artist, he’s always been driven by those increasingly scarce commodities: honesty, passion and emotion. It’s these attributes and Warwick’s tireless dedication to music that’s seen him achieve decades of storming the charts (including multiple Top 10 albums).Having just been awarded the Ards International Guitar Festival Lifetime Achievement Award in his homeland of Belfast, Warwick continues building his legacy this year with his electrifying ninth solo album, ”Fire & Vengeance”. It’s a record that showcases a musician at the very peak of his powers and, lyrically, he’s up there with the very best – a working class poet whose songs combine the autobiographical, the observational, the political, the cynical and the heartfelt.The new album sees him reunite once more with musical partner-in-crime Keith Nelson, the former guitarist with Buckcherry who co-produced, co-wrote and played on 2025’s Blood Ties.The album also features guest appearances from Phil Collen (Def Leppard), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake / The Dead Daisies), Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke), and Darren Holden (The High Kings).

Line-Up:

Ricky Warwick - vocals, guitars - See also: The Almighty, Black Star Riders, ex-(sic), ex-Circus Diablo, ex-Thin Lizzy
Keith Nelson – guitar, keys
Michael Nelson – drums

+ Guests:

Phil Collen (Def Leppard)
Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake / The Dead Daisies)
Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke)
Darren Holden (The High Kings)

Tracklist:

01. Fire & Vengeance
02. Hellbent & Heaven Sent (feat. Doug Aldrich)
03. Seek Zen Destroy (feat. Phil Collen)
04. When The King Falls (feat. Charlie Starr)
05. You Just Lie
06. The Angels’ Share
07. Last Chance To Dance
08. Sweet County Down (feat. Darren Holden)
09. Tumbleweed Town
10. If You Think Your Country Needs You…




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