Today the iconic, award-winning British blues icon Robin Trower releases his new album, One Moment In Time: Live In The USA, via Artone/Provogue. Listen and order the album HERE.
One Moment In Time: Live In The USA, is a document of Robin Trower in full flight, just as powerful when experienced through your home speakers as it was for the fans on the front row. “At the very least, you want the audience to be feeling entertained by the end of the show,” he considers. “But I’d really like them to walk out feeling elated. I want them to get something emotionally out of this as well…”
The evergreen guitar icon unveils a live rendition of his pièce de résistance, Bridge of Sighs. Originally released on the 1974 album of the same name, the track has long since taken on a life of its own—effortlessly bridging generations through its tasteful, soulful, and sophisticated guitar work. Over the years, it has been reinterpreted by artists such as Opeth, Ann Wilson, and Steve Lukather, and even makes a subtle appearance on the end of Metallica’s 1998 covers album Garage Inc. as a hidden segment featuring part of the song.
From the 14-song setlist whistlestop tour of Trower’s fabled career, the bluesman has already revealed roaring renditions of Too Rolling Stoned , and the previously released live version of Day of the Eagle. “That album is still a very powerful piece of music. You’ll find no fewer than four songs from 1974’s gold-selling masterpiece, Bridge Of Sighs, still universally hailed amongst the greatest albums from the golden era of blues-rock. “Those songs have to be in there, because they’re the audience’s favourites. “That album is still a very powerful piece of music.”
In the summer of 2025 and riding high on the acclaim for his latest solo album, Come And Find Me (“Trower is to be treasured,” wrote Classic Rock), the guitarist crossed the Atlantic for a 25-date run in the nation that has welcomed him since the start. Almost 60 years have passed since Trower first performed in the Land Of The Free, but as a British gunslinger raised under slate-grey South London skies, he still remembers the culture shock. “I first came here with Procol Harum in the late-Sixties. Back then, it was a different world,” he says.
Trower honed in on the material caught at the Music Box At The Borgata, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14 June) and the Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, New Hampshire (24 June).
Other old favourites include Daydream (from 1973’s solo debut, Twice Removed From Yesterday) and Somebody Calling (from 1977’s In City Dreams). Elsewhere, Trower plays the aces up his sleeve with surprise airings of Rise Up Like The Sun (from 1994’s 20th Century Blues) and Distant Places Of The Heart (from his 2007 collaboration with the late Cream bassist Jack Bruce, Seven Moons).
Trower is no heritage artist, and the cheers are just as loud for the four songs from 2022’s No More Worlds To Conquer, not to mention his stalking take on One Go Round (from Come And Find Me). “I love to play One Go Round live – it’s like a hot knife through butter,” he says of the soul-in-fingers strut.
“I prefer this format because I have more freedom,” he explains. “In a three-piece, everybody is trying to make up for the missing instrument. We’ve got Richard Watts on bass and vocals: a wonderful voice, great musician. Then there’s Chris Taggart on drums, another fantastic musician. I’m very fortunate to play with guys of this calibre. We’ve been working together now for a good ten years. They have to watch me a bit, because obviously I’m leading and they have to follow – but they do a brilliant job.”
