Robin Trower- "Come and find me"
Seasoned but still vivid and prolific , British cornerstone Robin Trower, releases his new work at the tender age of 80. While other men of his age , prefer strols to the park, Robin likes to meander on his fretboard, other times pulling out his best Jimi Hendrix imitations, other times paying tribute to other masters like Peter Green and most of the times enjoying his day under the sun, playing the blues in the best Chicago school inspired way. After so many years as an accomplished musician, Trower has his own distinctive sound with an excellent vibrato that goes deep in the blues and the British 60s rock scene (FLEETWOOD MAC, CREAM,FREE,YARDBIRDS) at the opening tracks to become more soft , trippy and contemporary as the album moves forward. Along with him for the ride are longtime singer Richard Watts, who has been with the Trower band on and off for the past few decades, drummer Chris Taggart and female vocalist Jess Hayes makes an appearance on two selections.
Hendrix inspired wah-wah pedal fuels the opening mid-tempo “A Little Bit of Freedom", followed by the blues up tempo rockers "One Go Round", "I Would Lose My Mind", and a self depictive, slow burner "Come And Find Me" , But as the album moves so does his diversity "Take This Hurt Away" has a modern,contemporary,FM rock sense, moving forward to one of the album powerhouse in "Tangled love" with Jess Hays on vocals, a struggling piece of CREAM influenced Soulful, blues rock . Songs such as “Capture the Life Begun” a loose, almost psychedelic trippy tune (a typically elusive and vague title), the slow psychedelic blues of “Take This Hurt Away”, and the song that gave the album its tile, “Come and Find Me” are all blues or rock tunes with their own moments of intimacy and are full of soul. But Trower has a few more surprises as he presents us with "I Fly Straight To You" , a song that Cris Rea would kill to have in his own repertoire.
Melodic, yet edgy. Trower proves he is one of the last of the greats blues guitarists of his generation. Moving swiftly at the fretboard, using melody and waw waw pedal in alignment with a distinctive , clear sound he brings the "white" side of Chicago blues for one more time to life, been traditional and contemporary at the same time and remind us what the British blues movement of the 60s meant for the modern music world.
As the title implies, Come and find him...you won't regret it.
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