Robin Trower - No More Worlds to Conquer (2022)

 For more than six decades, Robin Trower’s career has known no bounds. At the age of 76, the British guitarist can reflect on a journey in which he has planted flags across the musical sphere and played every role imaginable. He’s been the driving force behind Sixties icons Procol Harum. The transatlantic solo star who filled US stadiums with 1974’s ‘Bridge Of Sighs’. The collaborator and occasional supergroup member. The elder-statesman songwriter whose late period still crackles with invention.

Turning once again to his trusty toolkit of Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amp, Trower’s guitar work is ageless, whether that’s the tough chop of Ball Of Fire, Losing You and Cloud Across The Sun, or the slower-burn wah squalls of the title track and Deadly Kiss.

On Waiting For The Rain To Fall, Trower’s playing is crystalline as a dew drop, while theaching finale, I Will Always Be Your Shelter, offers a solo whose masterful touch is compelling as anything in his catalogue.