Pat Travers

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Pat Travers with guitar, studio portrait
Nine Pat Travers albums to listen to and one to ignore

By James McNair Published

Never one to repeat himself, Canadian guitar hero Pat Travers boasts a prolific, genre-shifting back catalogue – and these are his best albums

Albums
Pat Travers playing guitar
“We hired a real coffin, and the funeral-home people were like: You will look after it, won’t you?" Pat Travers on serenading a corpse, Thin Lizzy, and making peace with the past

By James McNair Published

With more than 30 studio albums to his name, Canadian guitarist Pat Travers really should be more widely known. But, he says, our destiny is not something we have control over

Interviews
Pat Travers
Pat Travers: six songs you need to know

By James McNair Published

He's Pat Travers. He almost joined Thin Lizzy. He was loved by Dimebag Darrell. And if you don't know his music, these six songs are a good place to start

Albums
Pat Travers in 1978
“Lizzy were a man down…”: Pat Travers on the time he nearly joined Thin Lizzy

By Niall Doherty Published

In 1976, Thin Lizzy were in urgent need of a guitarist and Canadian guitarist Pat Travers says he was very nearly their man

Albums