Jack Bruce - harmony row CD

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Harmony Row is the third studio album by Scottish musician Jack Bruce, originally released in July 1971.

The album takes its title from a tenement street in Glasgow, near where Bruce grew up. The street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile. The album's cover photo was taken near the Harmony Row tenement in Govan.

Although since cited by Bruce as his favourite solo album, Harmony Row did not chart upon its release. The album would be his last solo effort for over three years, as Bruce would join the power trio West, Bruce and Laing (with whom he would record three albums) in early 1972. The song "The Consul at Sunset", which was inspired by the Malcolm Lowry novel Under the Volcano, was released as a single in 1971 (Polydor 2058–153, b/w "A Letter of Thanks").

On its release, Tony Palmer wrote in the London Observer:

The musicality is polished and exact. The spontaneity of the performance suffers a little, but that is a small price to pay for the skill of the recording. The music flows precisely out of the nuances of the words; their meanings inexplicably linked with the kind of sound produced. It’s almost impossible to imagine the songs being performed in any other way by any other group of musicians.

Track listing

All lyrics composed by Peter Brown, music composed by Jack Bruce.

"Can You Follow?" – 1:32 "Escape to the Royal Wood (On Ice)" – 3:44 "You Burned the Tables on Me" – 3:49 "There's a Forest" – 1:44 "Morning Story" – 4:55 "Folk Song" – 4:20 "Smiles and Grins" – 6:05 "Post War" – 4:20 "A Letter of Thanks" – 2:54 "Victoria Sage" – 5:02 "The Consul at Sunset" – 4:14

2003 CD bonus tracks

"Green Hills" (instrumental version of "Can You Follow?") – 2:16 "You Burned the Tables on Me" (remix including electric piano) – 4:10 "There's a Forest" (first take) – 2:11 "Escape to the Royal Wood (On Ice)" (instrumental demo version) – 4:01 "Can You Follow?" (first take) – 1:32

John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish bassist, singer-songwriter, musician and composer. He gained popularity as the co-lead vocalist and ?bassist ?of British rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.

In the early 1960s Bruce joined the Graham Bond Organisation (GBO), where he met his future bandmate Ginger Baker. After leaving the band, he joined with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, where he met Eric Clapton, who also became his future bandmate. His time with the band was brief. In 1966, he formed Cream with lead guitarist Clapton and drummer Baker; he co-wrote many of their songs (including "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room" and "I Feel Free") with poet/lyricist Pete Brown. After the group disbanded in the late 1960s he began recording solo albums. His first solo album, Songs for a Tailor, released in 1969, was a worldwide hit. Bruce formed his own band to perform the material live, and subsequently formed a blues-rock band West, Bruce and Laing in 1972, with ex- Mountain guitarist Leslie West and ex- Mountain drummer Corky Laing. His solo career spanned several decades. From the 1970s to the 1990s he played with several bands as a touring member. He reunited with Cream in 2005 for concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Bruce is considered to be one of the most important and influential ?bassists ?of all time. ?Rolling Stone magazine readers ranked him number eight on their list of "10 ?Greatest ?Bassists ?Of All Time". He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, both as a member of Cream.