The award-winning British blues icon Robin Trower will release his breathtaking new album One Moment In Time: Live In The USA on 30 January via Artone/Provogue. The blistering first single, Day of the Eagle, is available to stream now.
For Robin Trower, the stage and the studio have always been two sides of the same coin. Fans will instantly recognise many of the tracks on One Moment In Time: Live In The USA, starting with Day of the Eagle, the opening song from his 1974 masterpiece Bridge of Sighs.
In the summer of 2025, riding high on the success of his latest solo album Come And Find Me, praised by Classic Rock for proving that “Trower is to be treasured,” the legendary guitarist crossed the Atlantic for a 25-date tour. Almost sixty years have passed since his first visit to America with Procol Harum, and he still remembers the experience vividly. “I first came here with Procol Harum in the late sixties,” he recalls. “Back then, it was a different world.”
With sound engineer James Kane recording performances at several venues, Trower later handpicked the best material from two standout shows: The Music Box at The Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and The Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, New Hampshire. “The new album is the best take of each song from those two nights,” he explains. “It’s about the performance but also the sound quality. You have to choose carefully. I did a lot of listening.”
The fourteen-track setlist takes listeners through Trower’s incredible career, balancing timeless favourites with newer songs that show how his sound continues to evolve. Four tracks from Bridge of Sighs appear on the album: Too Rolling Stoned, Day of the Eagle, Little Bit of Sympathy, and the haunting title track. “Those songs have to be in there because they’re the audience’s favourites,” he says. “That album is still a compelling piece of music.”
Other highlights include Daydream from 1973’s Twice Removed From Yesterday and Somebody Calling from 1977’s In City Dreams. There are also welcome surprises such as Rise Up Like the Sun from 1994’s 20th Century Blues and Distant Places of the Heart, taken from his 2007 collaboration with the late Jack Bruce on Seven Moons.
Trower is no heritage act, and the cheers are just as loud for newer material such as No More Worlds to Conquer and One Go Round from Come And Find Me. The power and chemistry of his live trio remain electric, featuring Richard Watts on bass and vocals and Chris Taggart on drums.
One Moment In Time: Live In The USA captures Robin Trower in peak form, his guitar tone rich, soulful, and unmistakably his own. “At the very least, you want the audience to be entertained by the end of the show,” he says. “But I’d really like them to walk out feeling elated. I want them to get something emotionally out of this as well.”
