Sunday, July 10, 2011

Robin Trower "The Playful Heart"

This is album #13 in my vault's Robin Trower collection.  I don't know what it is, but I always seem to be in a better mood after listening to his music.  I knew this was released late last year, but I didn't pull the trigger on it until my most recent buying spree, and it's another keeper.  Trower's recordings are certainly not a "you've-heard-one-you've-heard-them-all", but there is a similarity/familiarity to them that has pleased my ears for over thirty-five years, and this album follows suit.  RT is 66 years of age and his guitar still sounds wonderful.  Hey Robin, please leave the singing to Davey, though.  Davey Pattison has been singing for him off and on for the past twenty-five years, and he's got to be somewhere in the neighborhood of RT's age.  If Pattison's name sounds familiar, he got his start singing with another mighty fine guitarist named Ronnie Montrose and his band Gamma.  He doesn't use the power he displayed back then, and maybe doesn't have it anymore, but his voice is warm and perfect for RT's songs.  Here is a link to a very recent concert as the band plays the closing track from "Playful Heart", and Davey looks as if he's reading the lyrics!  It doesn't matter, the audience is there for the guitar...

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