Soulbook CD

MUSIC

CLASSICAL

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. It's the Same Old Song ~ Rod Stewart

2. My Cherie Amour ~ Rod Stewart

3. You Make Me Feel Brand New ~ Rod Stewart

4. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher ~ Rod Stewart

5. Tracks Of My Tears ~ Rod Stewart

6. Let It Be Me ~ Rod Stewart

7. Rainy Night in Georgia ~ Rod Stewart

8. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted ~ Rod Stewart

9. Love Train ~ Rod Stewart

10. You've Really Got a Hold on Me ~ Rod Stewart

11. Wonderful World ~ Rod Stewart

12. If You Don't Know Me by Now ~ Rod Stewart

13. Just My Imagination ~ Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart has teamed up with Jennifer Hudson and Mary J. Blige for duets on his album Soulbook. The album features Stewart's interpretations of '60s and '70s soul classics including "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher" and "It's the Same Old Song." Stevie Wonder accompanies Stewart on harmonica in an update of his 1969 hit "My Cherie Amour," while Smokey Robinson appears on "Tracks of my Tears," which he recorded with the Miracles in 1965.

Track Listing
1. It's The Same Old Song
2. My Cherie Amour (Feat. Stevie Wonder)
3. You Make Me Feel Brand New (Feat. Mary J. Blige)
4. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
5. Tracks Of My Tears (Feat. Smokey Robinson)
6. Let It Be Me Duet (Feat. Jennifer Hudson)
7. Rainy Night In Georgia
8. What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
9. Love Train
10. You've Really Got A Hold On Me
11. Wonderful World
12. If You Don't Know Me By Now
13. Just My Imagination

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Anatoly Rosinsky, Searmi Park, Phillip Levy , Julie Gigante, Roger Wilkie, Roy Brewer (violin); Marlow Fisher, Karen Elaine, Robert Brophy, Dave Walther (viola); The New Memphis Strings (strings).
	Liner Note Authors: Arnold Stiefel; Rod Stewart.
	Photographer: Mark Seliger.
	Arrangers: Howard Drossin; Willie Mitchell.
	Continuing his stroll through pop's backpages, Rod Stewart moves on from "The Great Rock Classics of Our Time" and dives into the SOULBOOK, shorthand for all the great Motown and soul songs that still are in heavy rotation on oldies radio well into the new millennium. Rod doesn't spend much time with the soul and blues singers so influential on him, choosing instead to run through a bunch of Motown hits - a full six of the 13 songs here are from the Motor City - adding a couple of smooth soul hits from the early '70s, plus Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown's "Let It Be Me" which gives him an opportunity to duet with Jennifer Hudson. All this is firmly within Stewart's wheelhouse.
Producer: Steve Jordan; Steve Tyrell
Engineer: Darwin Best; Kenny Moran
Musical Guests
	Stevie Wonder
	Mary J. Blige
	Smokey Robinson
	Jennifer Hudson

Compilation Appearances

	Night At The Roxbury
	Almost Famous
	Gold:Classic Rock
	Gold(2cd)
	Last Man Standing
	Back To Bacharach
	Singers Songwriters

Associated Artists and Works

	Adams, Bryan
	Clapton, Eric
	Elton, Ben
	Faces
	N-Trance
	Vitamin String Quartet

Technical Info

	Release Date : 10/26/2009
	Original Release Date : 2009
	Catalog ID : 30256
	Label : J Records
	Number of Discs : 1
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00886973025628

Bio

Rod Stewart
What becomes an icon most? Rod Stewart has always been a man who lives by his own standards. Over the past three years, the legendarily soulful Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has made musical history -- and a fine living, thank you -- interpreting standards from the great American Songbook. In the process, Stewart has managed to make some of the most enduring and romantic compositions ever written his own. "Singing these amazing songs has moved me deeply and given me a much-needed kick in the arse," Rod the Eternal Mod explains with characteristic honesty and wit. What started out as something of a commercial long shot and a true labor of love has quickly become a full-blown cultural phenomenon. Stewart's first two Grammy-nominated collections of standards -- 2002's It Had To Be You: The Great American Songbook and 2003's As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Volume II -- have already sold over ten million copies and brought this veteran superstar to a new and even larger audience of all ages. Even by the standards of a man who has sold more than 130 million albums worldwide, the public's loving embrace of these albums during a challenging time in the music industry has been nothing short of stunning. Remarkably, Stewart's first Songbook album remained on the Billboard Top 200 chart for almost 2 years. Rod Stewart spent most of 2004 on the road with "From Maggie May to the Great American Songbook," an 82-city tour, that was one of the Top 5 grossing tours of the year according to Pollstar. Clearly this a success story with unusual staying power - hot legs, one might even say.