New single – Someday We’ll All Be Free

‘SOMEDAY WE’LL ALL BE FREE’ is a new release by JO HARMAN, her first studio recording purely under her own name since before the pandemic.

A song for our times, no doubt, but one actually written over 50 years ago by Edward Howard about the mental pain that his friend, Donny Hathaway (who wrote the music and was the original artist), endured from paranoid schizophrenia; a condition that cost Hathaway his life when, at the age of 33, he threw himself out of a 15th floor New York window. 

Although several months in the planning, by chance Jo’s version was recorded on the day immediately after the infamous oval office spat between Trump and Zelensky which, in itself, seemed to define a change to the world order. Produced by Harman’s long time collaborator, Mark Edwards, Jo’s performance produced no little emotion in the studio, not least, I suspect, as a result the breadth and scope of the enduring sentiment within the song. Moreover, with Jo singing ‘womanly pride’ and ‘little darling’ one suspects she, in part at least, had her 4 year old daughter in mind with her reading of the song. Details of how to purchase the new release, including the 3 track physical version with over 20 minutes of music, can be found at www.joharman.com/shop