{"history":[],"article":{"id":"6ea708b1-2f11-485f-823f-6dbd38456283","title":"Harmony Row","slug":"harmony-row","content":":::summary\n![Harmony Row](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/HarmonyRow.jpg)\n**Name:** Harmony Row \n**Type:** studio \n**Artist:** [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce) \n**Released:** July 1971 \n**Recorded:** January 1971 (except track #13 October 1969) \n**Studio:** Command Studios, London (except track #13 [Morgan Studios](https://bliptext.com/articles/morgan-studios), London) \n**Genre:** [Progressive rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/progressive-rock), [jazz-rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/jazz-rock), [blues-rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/blues-rock) \n**Length:** 42:39 (initial release), 57:01 (2003 reissue) \n**Label:** [Atco](https://bliptext.com/articles/atco-records) (initial US release, SD 33-365) [Polydor](https://bliptext.com/articles/polydor-records) (initial UK release, 2310 107; 2003 reissue, 065 605-2) \n**Producer:** [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce) \n**Prev Title:** [Things We Like](https://bliptext.com/articles/things-we-like) \n**Prev Year:** 1970 \n**Next Title:** [Out of the Storm](https://bliptext.com/articles/out-of-the-storm-jack-bruce-album) \n**Next Year:** 1974 \n:::\n\n# \n**Harmony Row** is the third studio album by Scottish musician [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce), originally released in July 1971.\nThe album takes its title from a tenement street in [Glasgow](https://bliptext.com/articles/glasgow), near where Bruce grew up.\nThe street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile.\nThe album's cover photo was taken near the Harmony Row tenement in [Govan](https://bliptext.com/articles/govan).\nAlthough since cited by Bruce as his favourite solo album, Harmony Row did not chart upon its release.\nThe album would be his last solo effort for over three years, as Bruce would join the [power trio](https://bliptext.com/articles/power-trio) [West, Bruce and Laing](https://bliptext.com/articles/west-bruce-and-laing) (with whom he would record three albums) in early 1972.\nThe song \"The Consul at Sunset\", which was inspired by the [Malcolm Lowry](https://bliptext.com/articles/malcolm-lowry) novel [Under the Volcano](https://bliptext.com/articles/under-the-volcano), was released as a single in 1971 (Polydor 2058–153, b/w \"A Letter of Thanks\").\nOn its release, [Tony Palmer](https://bliptext.com/articles/tony-palmer-director) wrote in the London Observer:\n\"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.\"\n\n# Track listing\nAll lyrics composed by [Peter Brown](https://bliptext.com/articles/pete-brown), music composed by [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce).\n\n## 2003 CD bonus tracks\n

\"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?\"\n(first take) – 1:32

\n\n\n# Personnel\nTrack No. 15 recorded at Morgan Studios, London, 6 October 1969.\nAll other tracks recorded at Command Studios, London, mid- to late January 1971.","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T11:37:03.707Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T11:37:03.707Z","search_vector":"'harmoni':1 'row':2","search_content":" \n \n**Name:** Harmony Row \n**Type:** studio \n**Artist:** [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce) \n**Released:** July 1971 \n**Recorded:** January 1971 (except track #13 October 1969) \n**Studio:** Command Studios, London (except track #13 [Morgan Studios](https://bliptext.com/articles/morgan-studios), London) \n**Genre:** [Progressive rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/progressive-rock), [jazz-rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/jazz-rock), [blues-rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/blues-rock) \n**Length:** 42:39 (initial release), 57:01 (2003 reissue) \n**Label:** [Atco](https://bliptext.com/articles/atco-records) (initial US release, SD 33-365) [Polydor](https://bliptext.com/articles/polydor-records) (initial UK release, 2310 107; 2003 reissue, 065 605-2) \n**Producer:** [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce) \n**Prev Title:** [Things We Like](https://bliptext.com/articles/things-we-like) \n**Prev Year:** 1970 \n**Next Title:** [Out of the Storm](https://bliptext.com/articles/out-of-the-storm-jack-bruce-album) \n**Next Year:** 1974 \n \n\n# \n**Harmony Row** is the third studio album by Scottish musician [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce), originally released in July 1971.\nThe album takes its title from a tenement street in [Glasgow](https://bliptext.com/articles/glasgow), near where Bruce grew up.\nThe street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile.\nThe album's cover photo was taken near the Harmony Row tenement in [Govan](https://bliptext.com/articles/govan).\nAlthough since cited by Bruce as his favourite solo album, Harmony Row did not chart upon its release.\nThe album would be his last solo effort for over three years, as Bruce would join the [power trio](https://bliptext.com/articles/power-trio) [West, Bruce and Laing](https://bliptext.com/articles/west-bruce-and-laing) (with whom he would record three albums) in early 1972.\nThe song \"The Consul at Sunset\", which was inspired by the [Malcolm Lowry](https://bliptext.com/articles/malcolm-lowry) novel [Under the Volcano](https://bliptext.com/articles/under-the-volcano), was released as a single in 1971 (Polydor 2058–153, b/w \"A Letter of Thanks\").\nOn its release, [Tony Palmer](https://bliptext.com/articles/tony-palmer-director) wrote in the London Observer:\n\"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.\"\n\n# Track listing\nAll lyrics composed by [Peter Brown](https://bliptext.com/articles/pete-brown), music composed by [Jack Bruce](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-bruce).\n\n## 2003 CD bonus tracks\n \"Green Hills\" (instrumental version of \"Can You Follow?\") – 2:16 \n \"You Burned the Tables on Me\" (remix including electric piano) – 4:10 \n \"There's a Forest\" (first take) – 2:11 \n \"Escape to the Royal Wood (On Ice)\" (instrumental demo version) – 4:01 \n \"Can You Follow?\"\n(first take) – 1:32 \n \n\n# Personnel\nTrack No. 15 recorded at Morgan Studios, London, 6 October 1969.\nAll other tracks recorded at Command Studios, London, mid- to late January 1971.","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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