Guitar instrumentalist
Marc Bonilla is to
Robin Trower what
Trower was to
Jimi Hendrix, a slavish imitator who nevertheless goes off on tangents all his own. (Well, actually, some of
Bonilla's tangents belong to
Jeff Beck.) So, it's funny that on his second album,
American Matador,
Bonilla includes not one but two versions of "A Whiter Shade Of Pale," the initial hit by
Procol Harum,
Trower's old group. And what's the joke?
Trower didn't join the band until shortly after that song was recorded! ~ William Ruhlmann