I’ve only just stumbled upon this deep cut from Thin Lizzy, which seems to have been excavated from the vaults at some point last year.

I have to confess that passed me by, but the rediscovery brings me great joy, though it’s not entirely accurate to call it an acoustic version because Eric Bell plays plenty of searing electric guitar too.

And of course it’s all the better for that.

It comes from 1973 when Lizzy were a trio of Bell, Brian Downey on drums and Phil Lynott on bass, and the original version of Slow Blues appeared on their third album Vagabonds Of The Western World.

That’s when I and most others first discovered them, coming as it did after their huge hit single Whiskey In The Jar (which was on the album, to the disappointment of many).

Lynott is always at his best singing in that lovelorn fashion – “My baby don’t love me / My baby’s gone and made me sad” and Bell perfectly complements his melancholy words of loss and regret with his weeping guitar… of which there is more on the original album version: