The guitarist's new album, 'Coming Closer to the Day,' is out March 22.
Robin Trower will release his new album, Coming Closer to the Day, March 22 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. Today, Guitar World is premiering a track from the effort, the bluesy "Lonesome Road." You can check it out above.
Regarding “Lonesome Road,” Trower told Guitar World: “One of the hardest things is to come up with a piece of music like that, that has a freshness about it. That's why I'm so proud of how it came out."
Coming Closer to the Day was recorded at Studio 91 in Newbury, England, with engineer Sam Winfield. Regarding the new songs, Trower said, “ ‘Diving Bell’ is probably my favorite track on the album. ‘Truth Or Lies,’ that one was quite hard to pull off. I love the song, but I recorded it once and wasn’t happy with it, so I started from scratch again. It’s got quite a strong early R&B flavor to it. That song is not really about me. I’m writing from the viewpoint of a guy whose loved one has been messing around. ‘Someone Of Great Renown,’ again, that song isn’t about me, but it’s maybe someone that I’d like to be.”
About the subject matter of the title track, the 73-year-old Trower said, “I’m saying that I’m nearer the end than the beginning. But that doesn’t scare me. Not at all. If I went tomorrow, I’d feel like I’d been blessed with being able to achieve an incredible amount as a musician.”
Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.
