Reach for the night (Jack Bruce) (LP 888 - 889)

Jack Bruce  Shadows In The Air (CD, Sanctuary Records, 2001) ****  

Jack Bruce  Silver Rails (CD, Cherry Red Records, 2014) ***

Genre: Blues rock 

Places I remember: Slow Boat Records, HMV Oxford St.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Keep It Down (Silver Rails)

Gear costume: Out Into The Fields (Shadows In The Air).

A remake of the West Bruce and Laing song.

Active compensatory factors: These are late period solo studio albums. Silver Rails was his final album - he died seven months after it was released.

Shadows In The Air has a formidable cast, with Eric Clapton, Dr John, Gary Moore, Vernon Reid all making appearances during the album.

Clapton appears on the remakes of White Room and Sunshine Of Your Love. Of course musicians have every right to redo their songs in different settings but both of these revisits are nice to haves, not essentials. 

Silver Rails has a decidedly frail Jack on vocals which lends a weight and poignancy to the songs. 

Last ever sequenced final album track is No Surrender. That about sums up the attitude of this mighty bass playing G.O.A.T.

Where do they all belong? A slew of live albums to come yet. Plus I still have a few late period studio albums to collect: Monkjack; More Jack Than God and a 'lost' album that was finally released - Jet Set Jewel. There's also an excellent live album with Robin Trower that I need to find a physical copy of (it's on Spotify). Plus if I feel like a completist after all those - the synth album Automatic. He was prolific!