Jack Hardy

Jack Hardy

Currently available from Brambus Records:

The Passing - $14.95

Jack Hardy - The Passing
Tracks:
  1. The Passing
  2. Black-eyed Susans
  3. Willie Goggin's Hat
  4. The Halloween Parade
  5. The 20th Century
  1. You Only Leave Your Heart Once
  2. That Close to Crying
  3. If I Ever Pass This Way Again
  4. Dachau
  5. Morgan's Dance

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Civil Wars - $14.95

Jack Hardy - Civil Wars
Tracks:
  1. The Black Hole
  2. I Have Eyes
  3. The Hawk
  4. Das Kapital
  5. Double-Edged Sword
  6. The Zephyr (Take It Slow)
  1. The Three Ravens
  2. The Promise
  3. Fool for the Dancer (Movin' on Down the Road)
  4. The 111th Pennsylvane
  5. Johnny's Gone

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Through - $14.95

Jack Hardy - Through
Tracks:
  1. Through
  2. The Crows
  3. No Man
  4. Discover What It Is
  5. What A Strange Thought
  6. No Future
  1. Before You Sing
  2. Elevator
  3. The Knight's Dream
  4. The Nightmare
  5. Four Ways of Framing The Spring
  6. The Child

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Retrospective - $14.95

Jack Hardy - Retrospective
Tracks:
  1. Night Train to Paris
  2. May Day
  3. Lady-O
  4. Potter's Field
  5. Porto Limon
  6. White Shoes
  7. Blackberry Pie
  1. Houston Street
  2. The Tinker's Coin
  3. All Saints Eve
  4. The Tailor
  5. The Drinking Song
  6. The Guttersnipe

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Omens - $14.95

Jack Hardy - Retrospective
Tracks:
  1. I Ought to Know
  2. I Can't Love You
  3. Eclipse
  4. Síle na gCíoch (Sheila)
  5. Siar ón nDaingean (West of Dingle)
  6. Memory
  7. The Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  1. Willow
  2. Arrow
  3. Only One Sky
  4. Oh Woman
  5. In the Building of the Boat
  6. The Boney Bailiff
  7. A Change of Heart

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Jack Hardy is most probably New York's best songpoet in decades! After many LP's in the 70's and 80's, Brambus Records released "Retrospective" in 1989 and "Through" in 1990. And after one release for the French New Rose label, Jack Hardy is back with Brambus and presents a very strong musical piece with high poetical lyrics, very deep and with fine musical arrangements.

"The album 'Civil Wars'," Jack tells us, "was recorded as a live mix to two-track DAT with everyone playing at once. No overdubs, no fix it in the mix, no kidding, no prisoners. Even the roche sisters sang their harmonies live. It's what we call "guerilla recording". The songs are a live-mix of my influences. Musically: country western, traditional folk, rock & roll. Lyrically: politics, mythology, ecology, love and hate. Civil wars of the sexes, civil wars of the soul, civil wars of nations, civil wars with nature, civil wars of the artist and the bourgeoisie."

"She played the part of a virgin,
She played it all too well,
in real life she was a veteran
in the wars of kiss and tell."

Verses from the title song of Jack Hardy's second Brambus CD Through