British guitarist Robin Trower plays like a man on a mission with his latest release, "Time and Emotion." His show Sunday at the Fox Theater will include selections from that as well as songs from throughout his long career, including his breakthrough albums, 1974's "Bridge of Sighs," and 1975's "For Earth Below."
British guitarist Robin Trower plays like a man on a mission with his latest release, "Time and Emotion." His show Sunday at the Fox Theater will include selections from that as well as songs from throughout his long career, including his breakthrough albums, 1974's "Bridge of Sighs," and 1975's "For Earth Below."
Robin Trower worships at the church of blues where fellow guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan have ascended to sainthood: the use of distortion, wah-wah and whammy bars to bend, fold and manipulate the strings on their Fender Stratocasters to make sounds both of this world and not.
Trower’s career started with a short — 1967 to 1971 — but fertile five-album tenure in the roosty, soulful, prog-rock-leaning Procol Harum, whose biggest hit was “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (which he did not play on). The Brit parlayed that momentum into a successful solo career that found him fronting his own power trio in the mid 1970s with two albums, “Bridge of Sighs” and “For Earth Below,” which broke the Billboard Top 10.
