No More Worlds To Conquer

by Robin Trower

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soundbytz Age is treating Robin Trower well. This is one of his best releases of languid and slow-burning blues rock featuring his signature Strat sound and elegant phrasing. Richard Watt is his best vocalist since the great James Dewar. No nods to modernity; it's lineage is direct from the 70's. Highly recommended! Favorite track: No More Worlds to Conquer.

eddie_lee When Robin plays, I listen... and learn! Well done... well done indeed!

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1.	Ball of Fire 03:51	buy track
2.	No More Worlds to Conquer 03:54	buy track
3.	Deadly Kiss 06:14	buy track
4.	Birdsong 04:11	buy track
5.	Losing You 02:50	buy track
6.	Waiting for the Rain to Fall 03:46	buy track
7.	Wither on the Vine 04:11	buy track
8.	Cloud Across the Sun 03:14	buy track
9.	Fire to Ashes 03:44	buy track
10.	The Razor's Edge 03:02	buy track
11.	I Will Always be Your Shelter 04:17	buy track

about

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.

Few would dispute that the title of Trower's latest album – No More Worlds To Conquer – is a fair summary of the thumbprint he has left on the musical universe. But as he reminds us, it should not be misinterpreted as his mission being accomplished. The earliest songs from No More Worlds To Conquer, he remembers, began falling from the sky back in 2019.

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.

Once again, Trower also handles bass duties, but as a lifelong servant of the song over his own ego, he didn't hesitate to enlist other musicians. "Chris Taggart is on drums," he explains. "He's a wonderful drummer, and he's done the last three or four albums. And I started to realise, after I'd tried to sing these songs myself, that I wasn't vocally up to it. Richard Watts has done a great job on vocals. He's got a fantastic instrument – such a soulful singer – and he's willing to get it exactly how I'm hearing it in my head. The other great thing about having Richard is that there's quite a few songs on this album that I wouldn't be able to play and sing live at the same time."

Even if he's not stood at the mic, Trower's voice is always the signature ingredient of No More Worlds To Conquer, both in his iridescent fretwork and a lyric sheet that can be hopeful, bemused and biting as the eleven songs unfold.

For Trower, there is no end point, no final destination, no album so definitive that it can serve as a full stop on his extraordinary career. Contrary to that album title, there remain new worlds on the horizon, and the guitarist is sworn to journey on, right until the end.

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released April 29, 2022

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May 27

The Brook

Southampton, UK
May 28

Islington Assembly Hall

London, UK
May 30

Glasshouse International Centre for Music - Sage 1

Gateshead, UK
May 31

Holmfirth Picturedrome

Holmfirth, UK
Sep 14

Hoyt Sherman Place

Des Moines, IA
Sep 15

Uptown Theater

Kansas City, MO
Sep 19

The Factory

St Louis, MO
Sep 21

Brown County Music Center

Nashville, IN
Sep 22

Copernicus Center

Chicago, IL
Sep 23

Pabst Theatre

Milwaukee, WI
Sep 24

State Theatre

Kalamazoo, MI
Sep 26

Royal Oak Music Theatre

Royal Oak, MI
Sep 27

Center Stage, MGM Northfield Park

Northfield, OH
Oct 3

Hart Theatre, Egg Center for the Performing Arts

Albany, NY
Oct 5

Blue Ocean Music Hall

Salisbury, MA
Oct 6

Aura

Portland, ME
Oct 8

Wilbur Theatre

Boston, MA
Oct 11

Ridgefield Playhouse

Ridgefield, CT
Oct 12

Wellmont Theater

Montclair, NJ
Oct 13

The Paramount

Huntington, NY
Oct 15

Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre

Red Bank, NJ
Oct 17

Penn's Peak

Jim Thorpe, PA
Oct 18

Keswick Theatre

Glenside, PA
Oct 19

Music Box at the Borgata

Atlantic City, NJ
Oct 21

Birchmere

Alexandria, VA
Oct 22

Birchmere

Alexandria, VA
Oct 27

Bijou Theatre

Knoxville, TN
Oct 28

Center Stage Theater

Atlanta, GA

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