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 =
| length = {{Duration|m=42|s=54}}
| label = Scotti Bros.
| producer = {{plainlist}}
- Johnny Musso
- Narada Michael Walden ("Gimme Your Love" only)
{{endplainlist}}
| 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
| note1 =
| writer1 =
| lyrics1 =
| music1 =
| extra1 = James Brown
| length1 = {{duration|m=0|s=28}}
| title2 = Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
| note2 =
| writer2 = Brown
| lyrics2 =
| music2 =
| extra2 = Brown
| length2 = {{duration|m=3|s=15}}
| title3 = How Do You Stop
| note3 =
| writer3 = Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight
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| music3 =
| 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
| lyrics7 =
| music7 =
| extra7 = Brown, Aretha Franklin
| length7 = {{duration|m=5|s=16}}
| title8 = I'll Go Crazy
| note8 =
| writer8 = Brown
| lyrics8 =
| music8 =
| extra8 = Brown, Joe Cocker
| length8 = {{duration|m=3|s=16}}
| title9 = I Got You (I Feel Good)
| note9 =
| writer9 = Brown
| lyrics9 =
| music9 =
| 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}}
}}
References
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Category:Scotti Brothers Records albums
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