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Where to start? I know there’s YouTube, Spotify, Last.fm, Friends Reunited and Ceefax, but what do you think? No timewasters.  >:( ;)

Box set of The Studio Albums, 10 cds for £33 on Amazon. Thats all I need.

Bridge of sighs is a good place to start.


Google some of his live stuff, his facial expressions as he plays are a thing of wonder.

Bridge Of Sighs and Robin Trower Live was where I started.

Anything with James Dewar on bass and or vocals.

That's what I'd do too.  I saw Robin live in a pub in Surrey in about 1984 and it was extraordinarily good.  Crowd of 100 max.  I barely listened to him again til lockdown.

He's on tour.  Probably needless to say, but I thought I'd say it anyway. The Sage, now the stupidly- named Glasshouse, still has tickets.

There's a double album from 1997 which is both Bridge Of Sighs and Twice Removed From Yesterday. That's all you'll need.

Yup this is true

Bridge of Sighs is definitely the Robin Trower gateway drug. Every song is perfect. The deluxe edition has stellar contemporary live versions, as well.

Robin Trower Live was the second one I bought, and it adds several great pre-BOS songs to the mix (e.g., Daydream).

After that, it's really a hodgepodge. My personal favorites are In City Dreams and Victims of the Fury, but I'm sure there are some RT fans who prefer For Earth Below or Twice Removed From Yesterday. IMO, Long Misty Days and Caravan to Midnight have good moments but are not representative of his genius.

As for the Jack Bruce albums, I never embraced them. And Back it Up has a welcome dose of Dewar but doesn't have strong songs, again IMO.

Except for the glaring absence of Live, the Chrysalis box set covers all the bases. And you can't go wrong with any of the multitude of live releases from 1972 to 1980, which keep popping out of the Chrysalis vault. Such a powerful live trio. (Don't get me started on the 1980 Fort Worth concert for which I had tickets and was subsequently barred from attending...)

Thank you, Hive Mind.  :)

I bought the complete Studio Albums 1973-1983 and have finished plowing through it.

I'm going to slightly modify my opinion about Long Misty Days and Caravan to Midnight. There are certainly gems on both those albums.

Of the two Jack Bruce albums, BLT is pretty darn solid. I can imagine Bruce covering James Dewar's vocals nicely on stage, but I don't think JB ever toured with Trower. Truce is a very strange record; it comes across as a Jack Bruce solo album with special guest Robin Trower.

Finally, I'm enjoying Back it Up on second listen. A fitting end for the Dewar/Trower relationship. The bottom line is that you can't go wrong with Robin Trower. :)

Did anyone see Robin Trower in The Paramounts back then? I remember a great gig at the Fender Club Harrow!

Bruce & Trower toured in 2008 or 2009 for the Seven Moons album.  Standard setlist : https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/robin-trower-and-jack-bruce/2009/o2-shepherds-bush-empire-london-england-1bc2adf0.html

Philip