''Silver Rails'' is the fourteenth and final studio album by Scottish musician
Jack Bruce, released in March 2014. It was recorded at
Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music c ...
with producer Rob Cass. The song "Rusty Lady" is about
Margaret Thatcher.
The cover art was created by artist
Sacha Jafri
Sacha Jafri (born 1977 in United Kingdom) is a contemporary British artist known for creating the world's largest painting on canvas, ''Journey of Humanity'' (as recognised by ''Guinness World Records'') over seven months in 2020 during the COVI ...
.
[Kory Grow, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jack-bruce-moves-past-cream-it-was-nice-to-have-a-little-comeback-20140415, Rolling Stone Magazine, 15 April 2014] Bruce died 7 months after the album's release, making it his final studio work.
Track listing
All songs by Jack Bruce and
Pete Brown
Peter Ronald Brown (born 25 December 1940) is an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.Colin Larkin, ''Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music'', (Muze UK Ltd, 1997), , p. 80 Bro ...
unless otherwise stated.
#"Candlelight" (Bruce, Margrit Seyffer) – 4:20
#"Reach for the Night" – 6:19
#"Fields of Forever" – 4:35
#"Hidden Cities" (Bruce,
Kip Hanrahan
Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954) is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist.
Personal life
Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family. His father left when he was 6 m ...
) – 5:01
#"Don't Look Now" – 5:06
#"Rusty Lady" – 5:13
#"Industrial Child" – 3:40
#"Drone" (Bruce) – 4:47
#"Keep It Down" – 4:57
#"No Surrender" – 3:33
Personnel
*
Jack Bruce − vocals, bass guitar
(tracks 1-6 and 8–10), piano
(tracks 3–5, and 7),
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...
(tracks 9 and 10)
*
Phil Manzanera − lead guitar
(track 1)
*
Uli Jon Roth
Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth; 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with the hard rock band Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Aca ...
− lead guitar
(track 4)
*
Robin Trower
Robin Leonard Trower (born 9 March 1945) is an English rock guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum throughout 1967–1971, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as the Robin Trower Band.
Biography
Robin Trowe ...
− lead guitar
(track 6)
*
Bernie Marsden − lead guitar
(tracks 9 and 10)
*Malcolm Bruce − acoustic guitar
(track 2), guitar
(tracks 5 and 6)
*Tony Remy − guitar
(tracks 1–3), acoustic guitar
(track 7)
*Pearse MacIntyre − acoustic guitar
(track 3)
*
John Medeski − organ
(tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9), mellotron
(track 5)
*
Frank Tontoh − drums
(tracks 1–3, 5, 6, and 9)
*
Cindy Blackman Santana
Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Cart ...
− drums
(tracks 4 and 10)
*Milos Pál − drums
(track 8), djembe
(track 1)
*Rob Cass − percussion
(tracks 1, 3, and 6), backing vocals
(track 10)
*Derek Nash − tenor saxophone
(tracks 1, 2, and 3)
*Winston Rollins − trombone
(tracks 1 and 3)
*Russell Bennett − trumpet
(tracks 1 and 3)
*
Aruba Red − vocals
(track 4)
*Chantelle Nandi − vocals
(track 4)
*Julie Iwheta − vocals
(track 4)
*Kyla Bruce − vocals
(track 4)
References
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2014 albums
Jack Bruce albums
Esoteric Recordings albums