Aaron Neville - Bring It On Home: The Soul Classics

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:15
Size: 135.7 MB
Styles: Soul, Adult Contemporary
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[4:37] 1. Rainy Night In Georgia (Feat. Chris Botti)
[3:37] 2. Ain't No Sunshine
[4:26] 3. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
[3:50] 4. Stand By Me
[4:13] 5. You Send Me
[4:04] 6. Respect Yourself (Feat. Mavis Staples)
[3:22] 7. When A Man Loves A Woman
[4:02] 8. Let's Stay Together (Feat. Chaka Khan)
[3:31] 9. It's All Right
[4:05] 10. People Get Ready (Feat. David Sanborn)
[3:57] 11. My Girl
[3:40] 12. Ain't That Peculiar
[4:09] 13. A Change Is Gonna Come
[3:29] 14. (You're Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
[4:06] 15. Bring It On Home To Me

For Aaron Neville, the impact of Hurricane Katrina could only be expressed through music, specifically on songs that are uplifting, meaningful, and close to the heart. Bring It on Home...The Soul Classics is about recovery: a positive response not only to the natural disaster of the hurricane, but undoubtedly to the blasé attitude about it from the federal government. Tragedy can bring out the best in people, and Neville's disc not only aims to deal with his personal pain, but specifically reaches out to those who survived the storm the best way he knows how. These songs are familiar enough to deliver the listener a sense of warmth which hopefully opens the door to healing, grace, and power. Out of the 13 tracks, four are duets: with Mavis Staples on "Respect Yourself," Chaka Khan on "Let's Stay Together," brother Art Neville with David Sanborn for "People Get Ready," and Chris Botti on "Rainy Night in Georgia." Katrina's aftermath found other musicians reaching out to their audience as well, musicians who have created a few painfully triumphant releases like Dr. John & the Lower 911's Sippiana Hericane, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band's reworking of Marvin Gaye's 1971 album What's Goin' On, and the various artists who contributed to Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast. It's safe to say Aaron Neville's Bring it on Home...The Soul Classics should be added to that list. ~Al Campbell

Bring It On Home: The Soul Classics

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Mavis Staples - Only For The Lonely

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:41
Size: 148.1 MB
Styles: R&B, Memphis soul
Year: 1993
Art: Front

[2:48] 1. Until I Met You
[2:38] 2. Sweet Things You Do
[3:25] 3. The Choking Kind
[3:23] 4. You're Driving Me (To The Arms Of A Stranger)
[4:27] 5. A House Is Not A Home
[2:47] 6. Security
[2:17] 7. Son Of A Preacher Man
[3:06] 8. Pick Up The Pieces
[2:51] 9. Chained
[3:16] 10. Good To Me
[2:55] 11. You Send Me
[4:09] 12. I Have Learned To Do Without You
[3:22] 13. How Many Times
[3:11] 14. Endlessly
[2:36] 15. You're The Fool
[3:35] 16. Since I Fell For You
[2:36] 17. What Happened To The Real Me
[3:29] 18. Since You Became A Part Of My Life
[2:50] 19. It Makes Me Wanna Cry
[2:26] 20. Don't Change Me Now
[2:24] 21. That's The Way Love Is

Mavis Staples's earthy contralto was the Staple Singers' prime asset, and she finally recorded her first solo album in 1969. That album, Mavis Staples, was a tentative, unconvincing collection of pop standards like Dionne Warwick's "A House Is Not a Home," Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" and a pair of Otis Redding songs. The followup, 1970's Only for the Lonely, was much better, yielding the R&B hit "I Have Learned to Do Without You," the exquisite slow blues "How Many Times" and the finger-snapping Memphis soul of "It Makes Me Wanna Cry." Now the 20 tracks from those two albums have been combined on a single CD entitled Only for the Lonely (Stax), and supplemented with "That's the Way Love Is," a duet with Johnny Taylor from Boy Meets Girl, a Stax collection of male-female duets. This isn't Mavis Staples's best work--she went on to do much better singing with her family and on her own--but it's an invaluable glimpse at the first solo steps by one of America's finest singers ~Geoffrey Himes

Only For The Lonely

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Van Morrison - Duets: Reworking The Catalogue

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:43
Size: 175.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Rock, Blues, Soul vocals
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[5:15] 1. Some Peace Of Mind (With Bobby Womack)
[3:50] 2. If I Ever Needed Someone (With Mavis Staples)
[3:49] 3. Higher Than The World (With George Benson)
[6:23] 4. Wild Honey (With Joss Stone)
[3:43] 5. Whatever Happened To P.J. Proby (With P.J. Proby)
[4:54] 6. Carrying A Torch (With Clare Teal)
[4:12] 7. The Eternal Kansas City (With Gregory Porter)
[4:58] 8. Streets Of Arklow (With Mick Hucknall)
[3:52] 9. These Are The Days (With Natalie Cole)
[4:42] 10. Get On With The Show (With Georgie Fame)
[4:24] 11. Rough God Goes Riding (With Shana Morrison)
[6:42] 12. Fire In The Belly (With Stevie Winwood)
[4:00] 13. Born To Sing (With Chris Farlowe)
[5:15] 14. Irish Heartbeat (With Mark Knopfler)
[4:02] 15. Real Real Gone (With Michael Buble)
[6:34] 16. How Can A Poor Boy (With Taj Mahal)

On DUETS: RE-WORKING THE CATALOGUE, Van Morrison and the guests selected and recorded some of his songs from the catalog of 360 songs across his career. Deliberately steering away from his more well-known classics, Van enlisted some of the artists he most respects to perform these songs with him to re-craft and re-imagine them. The album was recorded in his home town of Belfast and London in the United Kingdom over the last year, using a variety of musicians and fresh arrangements.

Produced by Van Morrison along with Don Was and Bob Rock, the album features duet performances with Bobby Womack, Steve Winwood, Mark Knopfler, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, George Benson, Gregory Porter, Clare Teal, P.J. Proby, Joss Stone, Georgie Fame, Mick Hucknall, Chris Farlowe, and Van's daughter Shana Morrison.

Van Morrison is considered one of the most prolific recording artists and extraordinary live performers of our time. He has received a multitude of awards and accolades including 6 Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, an OBE, an Ivor Novello, and has been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His visionary songwriting and mastery of many genres continues to shine on albums celebrating and re-exploring his blues, jazz, skiffle and country roots. With one of the most revered catalogues in music history, his talents as a composer, singer and performer are unmatched.

Duets: Reworking The Catalogue

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