Paul Olsen on Robin Trower artwork
I was in Michigan last week visiting family and high school friends. On the way back, I stopped at the Ferndale Record Time (I also tried to find Record Graveyard in Hamtramck, but it appears to be completely gone). One of the records I bought and managed to transport back safely was Robin Trower’s In City Dreams•. This was one of my favorite cassettes in the seventies and eighties, and listening to it again a few years ago was the impetus for my finally throwing out all of my old cassettes. It had gone so muddy it was unlistenable.
While looking up information about the album on-line, I ran across Paul Olsen’s descriptions of how he created the album art for that album. It's a fun read if you’re interested in that era of rock.
- Paul Olsen’s Robin Trower album art
- About the artwork for Bridge of Sighs: “I stayed up 42 hours straight to finally complete it before the paint started setting. I remember taking a break at 5am and going into the back garden to sit and clear my head, watch the sun come up, and maybe see my two wild rabbits who lived in a burrough in the middle of the lawn. The garden flat has been reconverted into a house. I had a wonderful time there during a fantastic period to be living in England.”
- Robin Trower at Wikipedia
- “Robin Leonard Trower is a preeminent English rock guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the leader of his own Hendrixesque power trio.”
- Record Time
- Record Time in Detroit is a nice place to browse vinyl. I haven’t been to the Rosedale store, but found some nice finds at the Ferndale store. There are some nice bookstores in the area, too.
- Long Misty Days/In City Dreams•
- Long Misty Days is a good album, but In City Dreams is one of Trower’s best; some people put it just under Bridge of Sighs, but I’m not sure I wouldn’t put it first. This was a great laid back blue funk of an album.