Handful of Soul

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{{Infobox album

| name = Handful of Soul

| type = Studio album

| artist = James Brown

| cover = James Brown Handful of Soul.jpg

| alt =

| released = November 1966

| recorded = 1966

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Soul

| length = 39:01

| label = Smash

| producer = James Brown

| prev_title = James Brown Sings Christmas Songs

| prev_year = 1966

| next_title = James Brown Sings Raw Soul

| next_year = 1967

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=James Brown|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/109 109]}}

}}

Handful of Soul is the fourteenth studio album by American musician James Brown. All instrumental, it features Brown at the organ. The album was released in November 1966, by Smash Records.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/handful-of-soul-mw0000851689 |title=Handful of Soul - James Brown |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2015-07-10}}{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/handful-of-soul/900580400 |title=iTunes - Music - Handful of Soul by James Brown |publisher=iTunes |access-date=2015-07-10}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| title1 = Let's Go Get Stoned

| writer1 = Jo Armstead, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson

| length1 = 3:19

| title2 = Hold On, I'm Comin'

| writer2 = Isaac Hayes, David Porter

| length2 = 2:36

| title3 = Our Day Will Come

| writer3 = Bob Hilliard, Mort Garson

| length3 = 3:58

| title4 = A Message to Michael

| writer4 = Burt Bacharach, Hal David

| length4 = 3:47

| title5 = The King

| writer5 = James Brown, Nat Jones

| length5 = 6:24

| title6 = 634-5789

| writer6 = Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper

| length6 = 2:55

| title7 = When a Man Loves a Woman

| writer7 = Andrew Wright, Calvin Lewis

| length7 = 3:16

| title8 = Hot Mix

| writer8 = McKinley Johnson, Ted Wright

| length8 = 2:19

| title9 = Oh! Henry

| writer9 = James Brown, Nat Jones

| length9 = 5:00

| title10 = Get Loose

| writer10 = James Brown, Nat Jones

| length10 = 5:22

}}

References