SONGS FOR A TAILOR
Songs for a Tailor is the 1969 solo studio album debut of musician, composer and singer Jack Bruce, who was already famous at the time of its release for his work with the supergroup Cream. Songs on the album include “Never Tell Your Mother She’s Out of Tune” and “Theme for an Imaginary Western”, which was covered famously by Leslie West’s Mountain, and is featured in 2006’s 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them. (More from Wikipedia)
Chris Spedding went on to play with Cream bassist Jack Bruce (including his first solo album in 1969, Songs for a Tailor) and former Manfred Mann singer Mike D’Abo, plus a host of others, from Elton John to John Cale to Brian Eno to Harry Nilsson (including one of his best known albums, Nilsson Schmilsson). In 1973, Andy Fraser, the former bass player for Free (”All Right Now”) brought Spedding in as the lead guitarist for his short-lived band Sharks.
(November 2011)
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The other member of Cream, Jack Bruce released his debut solo album, Songs for a Tailor in the U.K. at almost the same moment that Mountain was performing one of the songs on the album, “Theme for an Imaginary Western” at Woodstock. All of the songs on the album had music by Jack Bruce and lyrics by Pete Brown; they had co-written several of the Cream songs previously.
(May 2014)
