The Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak, 1976) ... played on accordion!

[@glowingfish]

I know you say that your covers are very direct, but in this case, I feel that that is half-right...because this sounds very bluesy! And of course, the original is very bluesy, but is also very electric. So I guess I would say that the original was half blues rock, half arena rock, and this sounds like the blues half of it, if that makes sense!

[@RowanLipkovits]

Blues is in the DNA of so much 20th century popular music, but at the same time an accordion can only take _electric_ blues, or blues-rock, only so far. Often with such guitar-centric songs I omit the solos entirely (because it doesn't matter how well I do them, they will compare unfavorably) but I found the ones in this song iconic and achievable so I put in the work anyway. There is a chapter in my radio colleague's accordion history book about how the blues actually extinguished a Black American button accordion tradition ("why did Led Belly play accordion?") whose thread doesn't get picked up again until zydeco starts reaching wider audiences in the 60s, but I digress. A history of music winds up being a history of culture and society, which winds up being a history of everything. It's all connected, and often in unexpected and complicated ways!