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.[4] The street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile.[5] The album's cover photo was taken near the Harmony Row tenement[4] in Govan.
Although since cited by Bruce as his favourite solo album,[6]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 trioWest, 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").
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.[7]
