''Roll Back'' is an album by Irish rock band Horslips, their first since ''Short Stories/Tall Tales'' 25 years earlier. It is a collection of acoustic re-workings of various songs from the band's catalogue.

Background

In March 2004, three Horslips enthusiasts, Jim Nelis, Stephen Ferris and Paul Callaghan, put on an exhibition of Horslips memorabilia in The Orchard Gallery in

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. To open the exhibition, the Nelis, Ferris and Callaghan invited the five original members of the band to perform. The performance took place on March 20, to an audience of around 200 specially invited guests, where the band played a short set of acoustic versions of some of their better known songs. Following the enthusiastic reception to the exhibition reunion, the band decided to reconvene again to record a couple of acoustic songs for the forthcoming documentary DVD ''Return of the Dancehall Sweethearts''. These sessions eventually resulted in a full album of material, consisting of re-recorded versions of songs spanning the band's whole career, some of which were dramatically re-imagined.

Track listing

Personnel

;Horslips * Eamon Carr – drums, percussions *

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– bass guitar, vocals * Johnny Fean – guitar, tenor guitar,

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, tenor banjo, vocals * Jim Lockhart – piano, keyboards, low whistle, vocals * Charles O'Connor – guitar, tenor guitar, violin,

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, concertina, vocals ;Guest musician * Aisling Drury – cello on "Cuchulainn's Lament" and "Furniture" ;Production * Stefano Soffia, Ivan O'Shea –

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* Stefano Soffia – mixing * Peter Mew – mastering * Charles O'Connor, Chris Ellis –

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References

{{Authority control 2004 albums Horslips albums