52 FINEST HOUR

Black Star Riders

As frontman Ricky Warwick said of the band born out of Thin Lizzy: “Black Star Riders has its own identity, but the Lizzy connection is always there.” And in Finest Hour, all hardrock swagger and teenage-dream nostalgia, the influence of the late, great Phil Lynott was writ large. A song best appreciated, as Classic Rock stated, “blasting from a jukebox in the best spit ’n’ sawdust bar in town.” PE From: The Killer Instinct, 2015