Broken Barricades [Import]

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Robin Trower left Procol Harum a month after the release of this 1971 LP, the band’s fifth. A diverse delight, this album features a tighter sound than their earlier work (due, in part, to the departure of organist Matthew Fisher), and both Trower’s guitar work and the Brooker/Reid compositions here find the band at the peak of their creative powers. Disc one pairs the original LP with bonus "raw track" versions of "Broken Barricades," "Playmate of the Mouth," "Simple Sister," unreleased alternate versions of "Memorial Drive," "Power Failure" and more. Disc two is an unissued 1971 NYC concert for WPLJ FM: "A Salty Dog," "Whaling Stories," "Luskus Delph," "Juicy John Pink," "Still There’ll Be More" and more. You also get BBC Radio One "Sounds of the ’70s" performances (October 1971) and an unreleased 1971 Swedish radio concert: "All This and More," "Quite Rightly So," "Pilgrims Progress," "Power Failure" and more! Esoteric.