Capitol Records
2008
Day Of The Eagle: The Best Of Robin Trower
About This Album
Day of the Eagle: The Best of Robin Trower goes a long way toward providing a definitive best-of culled from his early and most definitive works as a solo artist. This 17-cut selection is compiled from the eight albums that documented his greatest commercial success, beginning with 1973's Twice Removed from Yesterday and ending with 1980's Victims of the Fury, all of them recorded for Chrysalis Records. This is not to suggest that Trower's work lessened in quality; not at all. It's simply that his visibility and his place in the spotlight were greatest during these years. Compilation producer Tim Chacksfield did an excellent job organizing and sequencing these tracks according to aesthetics rather than chronology -- after all, if that's what a punter wants, he/she can program the CD player, right? The set blasts out of the gate with one of the quintessential examples of Trower's pure blazing rock power with "Day of the Eagle" from the flawless Bridge of Sighs recording. It's followed by the silvery blues that is "Caledonia" (not the rhythm & blues standard but an original written by the guitarist along with the late bassist/lead vocalist James Dewar) from 1976's Long Misty Days.
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