Soul Session Live

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{{Infobox album

| name = Soul Session Live

| type = live

| artist = James Brown & Friends

| cover =Soul Session Live.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1989}}

| recorded = 1988

| venue = Club Taboo, Detroit, MI

| studio =

| genre = Soul, pop

| length = {{Duration|m=42|s=54}}

| label = Scotti Bros.

| producer = {{plainlist}}

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| chronology = James Brown live albums

| prev_title = Live at Chastain Park

| prev_year = 1988

| next_title = Love Power Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971

| next_year = 1992

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Soul Session Live

| type = live

| single1 = Gimme Your Love

| single1date = September 1989

}}

}}

Soul Session Live is a 1989 live album by James Brown. Credited on the album cover to "James Brown & Friends", it features guest performances from Joe Cocker, Wilson Pickett, Billy Vera, and Robert Palmer. It also includes one studio track, "Gimme Your Love", a duet between Brown and Aretha Franklin, which was their first and only recording together. It was released in connection with an HBO/Cinemax concert film, Soul Session.(1989). Soul Session Live [CD liner notes]. Santa Monica: Scotti Brothers Records.

Two of the album's tracks were nominated for Grammy Awards at the 1990 ceremony: "Gimme Your Love", for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and Cocker's solo rendition of "When a Man Loves a Woman", for Best R&B Song.{{cite web |title=A List of 32nd Annual Grammy Nominees |url=https://apnews.com/article/7214ac27d974afc9c5c0aa08cf633643 |work=Associated Press |date=January 11, 1990 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311185825/https://apnews.com/article/7214ac27d974afc9c5c0aa08cf633643 |url-status=live }}

Track listing

{{Track listing

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| title1 = Show Introduction

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| music1 =

| extra1 = James Brown

| length1 = {{duration|m=0|s=28}}

| title2 = Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

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| writer2 = Brown

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| music2 =

| extra2 = Brown

| length2 = {{duration|m=3|s=15}}

| title3 = How Do You Stop

| note3 =

| writer3 = Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight

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| extra3 = Brown

| length3 = {{duration|m=5|s=22}}

| title4 = Cold Sweat

| note4 =

| writer4 = Brown, Pee Wee Ellis

| lyrics4 =

| music4 =

| extra4 = Brown, Wilson Pickett

| length4 = {{duration|m=4|s=08}}

| title5 = Out of Sight

| note5 =

| writer5 = Brown

| lyrics5 =

| music5 =

| extra5 = Billy Vera

| length5 = {{duration|m=2|s=34}}

| title6 = When a Man Loves a Woman

| note6 =

| writer6 = Calvin Lewis, Andrew Wright

| lyrics6 =

| music6 =

| extra6 = Joe Cocker

| length6 = {{duration|m=5|s=46}}

| title7 = Gimme Your Love

| note7 =

| writer7 = Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen

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| extra7 = Brown, Aretha Franklin

| length7 = {{duration|m=5|s=16}}

| title8 = I'll Go Crazy

| note8 =

| writer8 = Brown

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| extra8 = Brown, Joe Cocker

| length8 = {{duration|m=3|s=16}}

| title9 = I Got You (I Feel Good)

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| writer9 = Brown

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| extra9 = Brown, Robert Palmer

| length9 = {{duration|m=3|s=25}}

| title10 = Try Me

| note10 =

| writer10 = Brown

| lyrics10 =

| music10 =

| extra10 = Brown, Robert Palmer

| length10 = {{duration|m=5|s=18}}

| title11 = Living in America

| note11 =

| writer11 = Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight

| lyrics11 =

| music11 =

| extra11 = Brown & Friends

| length11 = {{duration|m=4|s=06}}

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References