JACK BRUCE
Harmony Row ESOTERIC
A fine revamp of one of Bruce’s key post-Cream milestones.
Named for an impoverished street in Glasgow, close to where he grew up, 1971’s Harmony Row was Jack Bruce’s favourite of his solo albums, a tender, free-flowing record whose music he wrote at home on piano one especially inspired afternoon in 1969. Cream associate Pete Brown supplied Harmony Row’s lyrics, even when the subject matter was as personal as that of Folk Song, an exquisite, organ and piano-led ballad about Bruce and his then wife Janet Godfrey.