The Robin Trower Band Albums Ranked
Robin Leonard Trower (born 9 March 1945) is an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum throughout 1967–1971 and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as The Robin Trower Band. Perhaps Trower’s most famous album is Bridge of Sighs (1974). This album, along with his first and third solo albums, was produced by his former Procol Harum bandmate, organist Matthew Fisher. Despite differences, Trower’s early power trio work was noted for Hendrixesque influences. Trower is an influential guitarist who has inspired other guitar legends such as Robert Fripp, who praised him for his bends and the quality of his sounds and took lessons from him. Here are all of The Robin Trower Band albums ranked.
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8. Long Misty Days (1976)
“While Long Misty Days is a pretty good album, it does unfortunately show signs of either a decline or maybe a slight misstep. Not a BIG drop in quality compared to the previous three studio albums mind you, but the album immediately has a different feel. You’ll notice this right away.”
7. For Earth Below (1975)
“For Earth Below, mystical, hypnotic, poetic, and promising, the gem of the album closes our journey with a metaphysical exploration of blues, psychedelia, and a view of us from the eye of God. Easily Trower’s most magnificent composition and recording outside of the Bridge Of Sighs set. Lordan shimmers and brushes and throbs with an infant’s heartbeat, Dewar thumps the bottom echoes from Lordan, all while intoning a baritone Billie Holiday slow motion blessing; and Robin paints space and stars, blackness and beholding, meteors and astral travels. Robin’s lyrical poetry bemoans Coleridge and Keats and Ginsberg. It doesn’t get much better than this as Trower’s works go.”
6. Victims Of The Fury (1980)
“This record, as stated, is nothing short of a masterpiece. From the opener “Jack and Jill,” Robin introduces his jangly, reverby guitar and some of the most fluid riffing he had ever created and more rooted in heavy rock than ever before. From there, the chorus on the title track really made it stand out to me on the “Essential” CD and hearing it here in its original LP placement position is amazing. Side one of the original album closes out with the breathtaking “Only Time,” which paints an emotionally rich picture so vivid through the sounds you hear and the vocal lines are very poetic as well.”
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5. In City Dreams (1977)
“I’ve always thought “In City Dreams” to have been an overlooked funky nugget in his catalogue. Often associated with Hendrix in terms of guitar sound and technique – people are amazed at the sweetness of Trower’s playing on lullabies like “Bluebird” and “Little Girl”.
4. Where You Are Going To (2016)
“Solid album. Not a weak song in the bunch. Trower’s voice is strong and his playing is… well, he’s freaking Robin Trower isn’t he? No one else has that touch, his tone or mastery of the style he’s created. While the tone of this album starts off a little darker than his last couple of albums, the track selection unfolds nicely with plenty of that wonderful Trower funk/blues/rock thing he does better than anyone.”
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3. Twice Removed From Yesterday (1973)
“Twice Removed From Yesterday: This is where it all began. I have been a fan of the work of Robin Trower since his days as a guitarist for the legendary Procol Harum. From the very beginning, you could hear in his play that he had something special and that within the confines of his role as the band’s guitarist was a musical pioneer yearning to blaze his own trail. Album after album, Trower became more assertive in his influence on Procol Harum’s sound until one fine day he took that leap that was to launch him into musical immortality.”
2. Robin Trower Live (1976)
“This is by far what a live album should sound like his live version of Daydream is truly mind-boggling the way he sustained those notes was a one-off time I’ve heard many other live versions of this song and he doesn’t come close to playing that solo as he does here. I love this album and was well worth the price for just that smoking version of Daydream”
1. Bridge Of Sighs (1974)
“Bridge of Sighs, is an absolute scorcher of an album that was released at a time when hard rock had fallen out of favor in place of mellow pop music. Robin Trower is a wicked guitarist and his name is on the marquee but his rhythm section of bassist/vocalist James Dewar and drummer Reg Isidore are just as responsible for how strong this is. “Day of the Eagle” starts the album off like a runaway train, performed at a pace that was seldom heard at the time and then falls into a slow sick groove of which Trower shows off his six-string magic.”