Artist: Bobby Harrison
Title: Solid Silver
File: Funk/Blues/Jazz
Digital Release Date: February 7th 2025
London-born singer/songwriter and drummer/vocalist, Bobby Harrison’s career dates back to the late fifties and local band The Rockefellas.
Bobby moved on to join Golden Apples Of The Sun, signed to Immediate Records to release single, “Monkey Time” in 1965. More singles followed with Powerpack for CBS in 1966 and 1967, and, backed by jazz giant Ronnie Scott, a debut solo 45 in a cover of “Sonny”.
Harrison was a founder member of Procol Harum, before leaving to form his first own band Freedom in 1968 with Procol Harum guitarist Ray Royer, recording five well-received albums.
In 1973, Bobby formed SNAFU with future-Whitesnake guitarist Micky Moody, scoring a further three acclaimed releases.
He released a solo album in 1975’s ‘Funkist’ and guested on albums by Procol Harum keyboardist Matthew Fisher and UK Nirvana’s Patrick Campbell Lyons.
In the early eighties, Harrison moved to Iceland and released this under-looked album with local jazz funk supergroup Mezzoforte in 1987, in the process turning ‘Solid Silver’ into a local market Top 20 hit.
Tracks:
- It’s Over
- The Hunter
- Icelandic Rock N Roll
- Overload
- Nothing Stays The Same
- Not Stuff
- Guiding light
- Highway
- Victim of Love
- The Shape I Am in In
- Get on The Right Track
- After the Storm
- Oh Pretty Woman
- It’s Over (Radio Version)