The Bride Stripped Bare (album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Bride Stripped Bare
Type = Album
Artist = Bryan Ferry


Released = September 1978
Recorded = Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland 1977
Genre = Rock
Length = 41:42
Label = EG Records
Producer = Waddy Watchel, Rick Marotta, Simon Puxley, Steve Nye and Bryan Ferry
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t2jw7i8jg75r link]
* Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=191&name=Bryan+Ferry link]
Last album = "In Your Mind"
(1977)
This album = "The Bride Stripped Bare"
(1978)
Next album = "Boys and Girls"
(1985) |

"The Bride Stripped Bare" is a 1978 solo album by Bryan Ferry and is his fifth album released independent of Roxy Music. It was recorded after his girlfriend Jerry Hall left him for Mick Jagger in 1977, and appears to contain references to their break-up.

The album's title is taken from the Marcel Duchamp work "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even". Ferry had been introduced to the work as an art school student by Richard Hamilton. A subtext of Duchamp's piece is masculine and feminine relationships.

Track listing

# "Sign Of The Times" (Ferry) – 2:28
# "Can't Let Go" (Ferry) – 5:14
# "Hold On (I'm Coming)" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:37
# "Same Old Blues" (J. J. Cale) – 3:21
# "When She Walks In The Room" (Ferry) – 6:28
# "Take Me To The River" (Al Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges) – 4:29
# "What Goes On" (Lou Reed) – 4:11
# "Carrickfergus" (Traditional, arranged Ferry) – 3:46
# "That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison) – 3:17
# "This Island Earth" (Ferry) – 5:06

Personnel

Bryan Ferry - vocals, piano, keyboards
*John Wetton - bass
*Herbie Flowers - bass
*Ann Odell - organ, electric piano, string arrangements
*Mel Collins - saxophone
*Martin Drover - trumpet
*Preston Heyman - drums
*Neil Hubbard - guitar
*Rick Marotta - drums
*Steve Nye - electric piano
*Alan Spenner - bass
*Waddy Wachtel - guitar, slide guitar, background vocals