Chrysalis Records will mark the 50th anniversary of Robin Trower’s For Earth Below on June 27th with the album’s most ambitious reissue yet. Available digitally, as a four-CD set, and as a double-LP, the package contains a newly remastered version of the original 1975 mix, an extended 2025 stereo remix of the entire record, a trove of previously unheard outtakes, rarities, and BBC sessions, and—for the first time in full—a concert recorded at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on 16 March 1975. A 24-page booklet featuring fresh liner notes by veteran journalist David Sinclair rounds out the collection.
To whet appetites, Chrysalis has released “Alethea” in its 2025 stereo mix on all major streaming services, following last month’s teaser of “Shame the Devil” in the same format. These previews restore the expansive guitar tones, James Dewar’s soulful vocal nuances, and Bill Lordan’s newly recruited, funk-infused drumming that helped drive the album to No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard chart in 1975. Trower still cites the title track, “Gonna Be More Suspicious,” and “Shame the Devil” as personal highlights; Lordan recalls that the trio’s chemistry “felt instant, like we’d always played together.”
Disc three captures that chemistry in the studio with alternate vocals, a previously unreleased instrumental called “The Moody One,” and complete Top of the Pops and Live in Concert sessions from January 1975. Disc four transports listeners to the Shrine, where staples such as “Bridge of Sighs,” “Too Rolling Stoned,” and “Day of the Eagle” thundered alongside newer material. Altogether, the set offers 48 tracks, 34 of them never before issued.
Trower will support the release with a U.S. tour that opens 11 June at The National in Richmond, Virginia, winds through the Northeast and Midwest—including stops in Atlantic City, Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, and Chicago—and wraps 19 July at The Factory in Chesterfield, Missouri.
Pre-orders for all formats of For Earth Below—50th Anniversary Edition are live now, inviting both longtime devotees and new listeners to rediscover a blues-rock milestone in its most vivid form to date.
“Alethea” (2025 Stereo Mix) – LISTEN HERE
“Shame the Devil” (2025 Stereo Mix) – LISTEN HERE
US Tour 2025
June 11 – The National, Richmond, VA
June 13 – Penn’s Peak, Jim Thorpe, PA
June 14 – Music Box at the Borgata, Atlantic City, NJ
June 15 – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
June 17 – Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank, NJ
June 18 – The Wellmont Theater, Montclair, NJ
June 20 – The Paramount, Huntington, NY
June 21 – Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY
June 24 – Tupelo Music Hall, Derry, NH
June 25 – The Wilbur, Boston, MA
June 27 – Aura, Portland, ME
June 28 – Blue Ocean Music Hall, Salisbury, MA
July 1 – Center for the Arts of Homer, Homer, NY
July 2 – Babeville, Buffalo, NY
July 3 – Palace Theatre, Greensburg, PA
July 5 – MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage, Northfield, OH
July 6 – Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
July 8 – Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI
July 10 – Brown County Music Center, Nashville, IN
July 11 – Copernicus Center, Chicago, IL
July 12 – Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI
July 14 – Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA
July 16 – Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO
July 17 – Gillioz Theatre, Springfield, MO
July 19 – The Factory, Chesterfield, MO
* Previously unreleased
