Silver Rails

Silver Rails
Studio album by Jack Bruce
Released	25 March 2014
Studio	Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre	Rock, jazz-rock, blues-rock, Latin
Length	47:31
Label	Esoteric Antenna
Producer	Rob Cass
Jack Bruce chronology
More Jack than God (2003) Silver Rails (2014)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
All About Jazz	(very favorable)[2]

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.^[3] 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 3–5, 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 1–3), 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 − 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. 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. 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