Feels Good to Me

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Feels Good to Me
Bill Bruford Feels Good To Me.jpg
Studio album by
Released22 January 1978[1]
RecordedAugust 1977 (1977-08)
StudioTrident Studios, London
GenreJazz fusion
Length46:58
LabelEG/Polydor
ProducerRobin Lumley, Bill Bruford
Bruford chronology
Feels Good to Me
(1978)
One of a Kind
(1979)

Feels Good to Me is the 1978 debut solo album by former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford. The band Bruford grew out of the line-up assembled for this album. The album features guitarist Allan Holdsworth, bassist Jeff Berlin, keyboardist Dave Stewart, and ECM stalwart Kenny Wheeler on fluegelhorn. Bruford also enlisted singer-songwriter Annette Peacock (who performs two of Bruford's lyrics, and contributes one of her own) and Brand X guitarist John Goodsall (who plays rhythm on the title track only). Dave Stewart was a pivotal figure in the music of the Canterbury scene with groups like Egg, Hatfield and the North and National Health, but despite his strong playing (and co-writing) presence, the album does not sound much like the Canterbury bands, and is instead closer to contemporaries Brand X (whose keyboardist Robin Lumley co-produced the album with Bill Bruford).

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[2]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek praised the way the performers handled the material, and opined that "Bruford has yet to issue a solo recording as powerful as Feels Good to Me."[2]

Track listing[]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Beelzebub"Bill Bruford3:16
2."Back to the Beginning"Bruford7:09
3."Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part One)"Bruford2:30
4."Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part Two)"Bruford4:25
5."Sample and Hold"Bruford, Dave Stewart5:12
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Feels Good to Me"Bruford3:49
7."Either End of August"Bruford5:27
8."If You Can't Stand the Heat..."Bruford, Stewart3:20
9."Springtime in Siberia"Bruford, Stewart2:43
10."Adios a la pasada (Goodbye to the Past)"Bruford, Annette Peacock7:55
2005 remaster bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Joe Frazier" (live)Jeff Berlin4:39

Personnel[]

with

Production
  • Produced by Robin Lumley & Bill Bruford
  • Tape operators: John Brand, Colin Green, Stephen Short
  • Engineer: Stephen W Tayler
  • Equipment technicians: Peter Revill, Mick Rossi

References[]

  1. ^ "Album Releases January" (PDF). Music Week. January 7, 1978. p. 42. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Jurek, Tom. Bill Bruford: Feels Good to Me > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2020.

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