Artist: Robin Trower
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Long Misty Days
Year: 1976
Tracks: 9
For Earth Below
Year: 1975
Tracks: 8
Bridge Of Sighs
Year: 1974
Tracks: 8
Twice Removed From Yesterday
Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
Throughout his foresighted and wandering solo career, guitarist Robin Trower has had to endure innumerable comparisons to Jimi Hendrix, due to his preternatural power to channel Hendrix's bluesy/psychedelic, Fender Strat-fueled playing stylus. Born on March 9, 1945, in Catford, England, Trower spent the early '60s playing guitar in diverse London based outfits; the most successful one existence the R&B chemical group the Paramounts, wHO specialized mostly in covers, only managed to outlet respective singles 'tween 1963 and 1965. It wasn't until 1967 that Trower received his large break however, when he joined Procol Harum. The chemical group had exactly scored a world-wide smash attain with "A Whiter Shade of Pale," but the but job was that the band's drawing card, singer/pianist Gary Brooker, didn't have a proper band to back him. Brooker was antecedently a bandmate of Trower's in the Paramounts, and offered the guitar slot in his new fast-rising project to his old friend. As a termination, Trower appeared on such Procol Harum classics as 1967's Procol Harum, 1968's Shine on Brightly, 1969's A Salty Dog, 1970's Menage (which spawned the popular Trower tune "Whiskey Train"), and 1971's Low Barricades.
Patch Procol Harum helped set in motion Trower's vocation, the guitarist realised there was circumscribed space for his guitar work, and eventually left field for a solo career. Enlisting singer/bassist James Dewar and drummer Reg Isidore (wHO was presently replaced by Bill Lordan) as a mount band, Trower issued his solo debut, Double Removed From Yesterday, in 1973. The record album scantily left wing a dent in the U.S. charts, but that would change before long enough with his following release, 1974's Span of Sighs. With rock fans soundless reeling from Hendrix's death a few old age earlier, the album sounded eerily like to the later guitarist's work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience (specially his 1968 release, Electrical Ladyland), and as a termination, the album sky rocketed into the U.S. Top Ten, peaking at number seven-spot.
Although Span of Sighs was to be his most popular solo spill, Trower's stock continued to rise passim the mid-'70s, as he became an arena headliner on the strength of such collide with albums as 1975's For Earth Below, 1976's Turdus migratorius Trower Live!, and Long Misty Days, plus 1977's In City Dreams. Further releases followed, notwithstanding by the dawn of the '80s, it became quite obvious that Trower's star was quickly fading, as each album sold less than its predecessor. A brief conglutination with ex-Cream bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce spawned a pair off of releases, 1981's B.L.T. and 1982's Truce, before Trower returned back to his solo career.
The '80s byword Trower try and expand his audience with several releases that attempted to update his blues-rock style (such as 1987's slickness produced Rage), simply none returned the guitar player back to the top of the inning of the charts. During the early '90s, Trower returned back to Procol Harum for a brief reunification (1991's Prodigal Stranger), before support ex-Roxy Music isaac Bashevis Singer Bryan Ferry on a few releases (1993's Cab and 1994's Mamouna, the latter of which Trower earned a co-producer credit entry for). Trower continued to yield solo albums in the 21st c (2000's Go My Way), piece a steady stream of live sets and compilations appeared. Trower returned to put to work with Ferry formerly more on 2002's Frenzied, over again earning a production recognition. Reassembling almost of his late-'80s band, Trower released Living Out of Time in 2004 and returned with Some other Days Blues in late 2005.
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