''Soul of a Man'' is a 2006
R&B album by
Eric Burdon. It is dedicated to
Ray Charles,
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often ...
and the city of
New Orleans. It follows his 2004 comeback album ''
My Secret Life'' and the 2005 live album & DVD ''
Athens Traffic Live
''Athens Traffic Live'' is a live album by Eric Burdon And The Animals, recorded in 2005 in Greece. It includes a bonus DVD.
Track listing
# "Introduction" – 0:16
# " Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:57
# "When I Was Young" (Eric Burdon) â ...
''.
It reached No. 43 on the German and No. 165 on the French album chart.
The song "Feeling Blue" was written by
Eric Bibb. "Slow Moving Train" is a song he first performed in early 2005, dedicated to U.S. president
John F. Kennedy. Burdon also covered two songs by the
folk singer-songwriter
David Munyon; "GTO" features a bass solo and a spoken intro, and "Never Give Up Blues" takes a melancholy mood.
Track listing
# "
Soul of a Man" (
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer, guitarist and evangelist. His landmark recordings completed between 1927 and 1930—thirty songs in total—display a combination of powerful "ch ...
) – 4:16
# "
Kingsize Jones" (Jimmy Wood, J.J. Holliday) – 3:34
# "
Red Cross Store" (
Fred McDowell) – 4:18
# "Como Se Llama Mama" (
Gregg Sutton, John Heron) – 3:39
# "
Forty Days and Forty Nights" (Bernard Roth)– 3:00
# "Feeling Blue" (
Eric Bibb, Fredrik Boström)– 4:48
# "
Never Give Up Blues" (
David Munyon) – 4:13
# "
GTO
GTO may refer to:
Entertainment
* '' Great Teacher Onizuka'', a manga, anime, live-action series, and film
* GameTable Online, a game portal
Music bands
* GTO (band), an Australian band
* The GTOs, an American girl group
* Giraffe Tongue Orche ...
" (David Munyon) – 5:33
# "
Forty-Four" (
Roosevelt Sykes,
Eurreal Wilford Montgomery)– 4:30
# "
Slow Moving Train" (John Keller) – 5:26
# "
Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down" (Charlotte Hoglund,
Eric Bibb) – 4:55
# "
Devil Run" (
John Bundrick) – 3:21
# "
I Don't Mind" (John Bundrick) – 5:27
# "
Circuit Rider" (
Billy Watts, David Raven,
Pete Anderson, Taras Prodaniuk) – 3:44
Personnel
* Eric Burdon – vocals
*
Carl Carlton – guitar,
slide guitar
Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...
*
Johnny Lee Schell – guitar, slide guitar, background vocals
*
Jon Cleary – piano
*
James "Hutch" Hutchinson – bass guitar
*
Reggie McBride – bass guitar
* Les Lovett – trumpet,
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
* Nick Love –
trombone
*
John Sublett –
saxophone
*
Rod Piazza –
harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...
*
Lenny Castro
Lenny or Lennie may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Lenny (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Lennie (surname), a list of people
* Lenny (singer) (born 1993), Czech songwriter
Arts and entertainment Music
* ''L ...
– percussion
*
Tony Braunagel – drums
References
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2006 albums
Eric Burdon albums
SPV/Steamhammer albums