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Release Date Friday 14th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Exciting news
Ricky Warwick will be joining us in the shop on Tuesday 18th March 2025 for a Instore Session and signing starting at 12pm Midday
As you may know our shop is pretty tiny so we only have a VERY Limited amount of space available for this show - All you have to do to Guarantee entry is pre order a copy of the album on any format below
No tickets are being issued once ordered your name automatically gets added to our door list
Albums will be ready to be picked up for the release day upto and including the day of the event.
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 album Blood Ties.
Acknowledging that it was time to mine a deep seam for this record, the busiest man in the business has left
nothing in the dressing room. Big cathartic guitar sounds and life-affirming, often joyous assessments of
where he stands in this time and place make this album a standout piece of work in a career that has
spanned over four decades. The Northern Irish man has spent his time well and the foundations for an
album such as Blood Ties have been laid on solid ground.
As a solo artist and an esteemed singer/songwriter in his own right, Ricky Warwick has also collaborated with
some of the finest musicians on the planet, with Blood Ties featuring Billy Duffy (The Cult), Lita Ford and
Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke). Ricky has gathered many strings to his bow and his capacity to deliver new
work to an appreciative fanbase with the accuracy of a perfectly flighted arrow is beyond impressive.
Having written with his friend and creative compadre Mr Keith Nelson (Buckcherry, Velvet Revolver,
Blackberry Smoke) on this album, Ricky stresses that the guitars are turned up “beyond driven” on Blood
Ties. When Warwick is as happy as this with a new work, you can rest assured there’s another hit album
barrelling down the track... And it’s coming at a pace.
1. Angels of
Desolation
2. Rise and Grind
(feat. Charlie Starr)
3. Don't Leave Me in
the Dark (feat. Lita
Ford)
4. The Crickets Stayed
in Clovis
5. Don't Sell Your Soul
to Fall in Love
6. Dead and Gone
7. The Hell of Me and
You (feat. Billy Duffy)
8. Crocodile Tears
9. Wishing Your Life
Away
10. The Town That
Didn't Stare
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