Following his departure from Procol Harum in 1972, Robin Trower put together a blues trio with singer/bassist James Dewar and Reg Isidore (later replaced by Bill Lordan) on drums. His first album, 'Twice Removed From Yesterday' established him as a guitarist of note, and although comparisons to Hendrix were inevitable he rode them out and started to produce music that was distincltly his own. His first few albums were produced by Procol Harum band-mate Matthew Fisher, but by 1976's 'Long Misty Days' he was co-producng himself with Geoff Emerick. By the same year's 'Robin Trower Live!' album he was at the height of his powers, and could only go down from there. Subsequent albums sold fewer copies, and by 'In City Dreams' I'd stopped buying them. He soldiered on through the 80's, forming B.L.T with Jack Bruce and Bill Lordan in 1981, and then going back to a solo career during the mid-80's. While he carried on releasing albums over the next 20 years to a reasonable reception, he suddenly had a resurgence in his career a few years ago when the releases started to get really favourable reviews, and his 2017 album 'Time And Emotion' crashed into the Billboard chart at number 2. One thing that has been conspicuous by its absence is any sort of out-takes collection, as there didn't seem to be anything that was ever put away in the vaults, so I was quite surprised to see an album appear the other month which purported to be just such a disc, and on listening to it it does contain some great songs that I'd never heard before. There were a couple of lesser quality and the odd duplication, and I wasn't keen on the cover, so with a bit of tidying up and editing, and rehoused in my own sleeve, here is an album that I never thought would see the light of day - a Robin Trower out-takes collection of unheard songs recorded between 1975 and 1980.
Track listing
01 Take A Fast Train02 With This Song03 Hold Back The Sands Of Time04 Start All Over Again05 Let Me Be The One06 No Man Is An Island07 Lady Seldom Seen08 Bless The Boy09 One In A Million10 Father Of The Dance11 To Know You Is To Love You12 Hold Me13 Feel Thing
