Jo Harman's take on 'Trade Winds' is now released officially on all digital platforms today and we're very grateful for all the ongoing support, and reaction, to date. It's fair to say Jo primiarly makes music for one person - herself - but it's gratifying to learn from the media comments below that her self expression can touch others too. Myself, I'm most drawn to her final ad lib 'we gotta do something'. We surely have, indeed.
What media are saying......
'Performance best described as EPIC, soulful, spine-tingling, and those BVs (Jo x3) take it off the scale'
Clive Richardson, 'Solar Radio'
'My goodness, is there anything that Jo Harman doesn't make special?'
Chris Rizik, Editor of US based Soultracks.com, the world's biggest soul music resource.
'Wanted to enthuse about Jo's new track. Beautifully realised, as always'
Paul Sexton (BBC R2)
'Incredible vocals of Jo Harman'
Paul Lewis (Solar Radio)
'This helps my tears flow, it's beautiful, thank you'
Anna DeMeo Texier (Powerjam)
'The song, carries a message that Jo Harman feels profoundly and, frankly, can’t be denied ("the winds are blowing, the choice is all up to you")'
Ross Muir, Fabrications HQ
'Just need a moment for the shivers to settle down...that voice, THAT voice. Wow, a new Jo Harman album would be a thing'
Rick Stuart, Roots and Fusion
It has been a decade now since Jo Harman travelled to Nashville to record her most recent body of original work, the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 'People We Become' album, yet her reputation and standing have only continued to grow in the years since. Even a global pandemic and the arrival of new motherhood — a five-year-old and two-year-old twins — have done little to slow her momentum. In a crowded music landscape, Jo seems to be increasingly appreciated as an artist of rare authenticity, depth, and ability.
During this (somewhat 'fallow') period, Jo has felt a renewed pull towards Black American music of the late 1960s and early 1970s — songs that offered powerful commentary on social injustice. More than half a century on, their themes resonate strongly with her own concerns about society in today’s troubled times.
This has led her to record her own interpretations of a trilogy of songs, beginning with 'Someday We’ll All Be Free', followed by 'Don’t Give Up On Me', and now the Ralph MacDonald/William Salter composition 'Trade Winds' — a song whose message she feels profoundly. Trade Winds completes this trilogy of 70s soul classics, each chosen for lyrics that speak directly to Jo’s deeply held reflections on the present day.
All of this comes ahead of plans to finally release new original material from Jo from 2026 onwards, which may — at last — develop into the long-awaited third album.
In the meantime, we hope Trade Winds completes her 'Soul Trilogy' following previous singles 'Don’t Give Up On Me' (already surpassing a quarter of a million Spotify plays) and Someday We’ll All Be Free, which was named Record of the Week by multiple radio stations and reached the Top 5 of the UK Soul Chart.
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