Silver Rails

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silver Rails
Silver Rails.jpg
Studio album by
Jack Bruce
Released25 March 2014
StudioAbbey Road Studios, London
GenreRock, jazz-rock, blues-rock, Latin
Length47:31
LabelEsoteric Antenna
ProducerRob Cass
Jack Bruce chronology
More Jack than God
(2003) 		Silver Rails
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3.5/5 stars[1]
All About Jazz(very favorable)[2]
‘’Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[3]

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 with producer Rob Cass. The song "Rusty Lady" is about Margaret Thatcher.[1] The cover art was created by artist Sacha Jafri.[4] 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 unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Candlelight" (Bruce, Margrit Seyffer) – 4:20
  2. "Reach for the Night" – 6:19
  3. "Fields of Forever" – 4:35
  4. "Hidden Cities" (Bruce, Kip Hanrahan) – 5:01
  5. "Don't Look Now" – 5:06
  6. "Rusty Lady" – 5:13
  7. "Industrial Child" – 3:40
  8. "Drone" (Bruce) – 4:47
  9. "Keep It Down" – 4:57
  10. "No Surrender" – 3:33

Personnel[]

  • Jack Bruce − vocals, bass guitar (tracks 1-6 and 8-10), piano (tracks 3, 4, 5, and 7), Mellotron (tracks 9 and 10)
  • Phil Manzanera − lead guitar (track 1)
  • Uli Jon Roth − lead guitar (track 4)
  • Robin Trower − 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, 2, and 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, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9)
  • Cindy Blackman Santana − 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[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Jurek, Thom. "Jack Bruce: Silver Rails". Allmusic. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  2. ^ Woolever, Phillip (15 June 2014). "Jack Bruce: Silver Rails". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ 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
Retrieved from ""