Album Review: Jo Harman 'People We Become'

Award-winning soul and blues singer-songwriter Jo Harman released her second studio album, People We Become, on February 3rd.  Recorded in Nashville with producer Fred Mollin the album consists of ten original tracks including the first single, “When We Were Young,” which features soul legend Michael McDonald.

Opening with the gorgeous gospel-like introduction of “No One Left To Blame” (which leads into a sultry bluesy tale with a wicked guitar solo) the album focuses on the myriad of emotions that one experiences in, and after, a relationship. While the piano-driven ballads “Silhouettes Of You” and “Lend Me Your Love” as well as “Unchanged and Alone” emit a sad ache that finds loneliness front and center, the funky “Reformation” and “Changing of the Guard” both look forward. The album is rounded out with the ethereal “Person Of Interest,” “The Final Page,” which offers a plea for forgiveness and the sweeping, heart-wrenching closer “Lonely Like Me.”

Harman delivers a sophomore record that is elegant, delicate, and spacious. Intricately crafted, the emotional songs, delivered with passion and soul by a singular voice, will resonate with anyone who has experienced the pain and joys of a relationship - and knows they play a large part in making us the people we become. 

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