Robin Trower, who on Wednesday celebrates his 66th birthday, is a rare musician who gets better with age. His innovative sounds were developed in his native Britain and are much in the same vein as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. He was a member of Procol Harum from 1967-1972. He recorded three albums with Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music) and four with Jack Bruce (Cream). The Robin Trower Band has about 30 albums, including one released last fall, “The Playful Heart,” which he was accompanied in the studio by his touring bandmates from America. Trower is in the middle of a five-month United States tour, which included eight weeks off for “holiday” at his home in Britain. The Robin Trower band performs its first Tahoe show in more than five years this Saturday at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. He spoke earlier this week with Lake Tahoe Action’s Tim Parsons.
Q: Are you are playing so many shows because you really love to perform?
Trower: I keep coming up with new songs, new material. And when you write new songs, you’ve got to make a new album, and when you make a album you’ve got to go out there and promote it otherwise no one knows you’ve done it. So it’s all generated from my creativity.
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