The Soul Sessions Vol. 2

The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 was recorded over two live recording sessions in New York City and Nashville.{{cite magazine |last=Lewis |first=Pete |url=http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/777/soulsational_stone/ |title=Joss Stone: Soulsational Stone |magazine=Blues & Soul |issue=1093 |date=July 2012 |accessdate=23 July 2012 |issn=0959-6550}} The album is a joint release between Stone's own independent label Stone'd Records and S-Curve Records, the label that released her first two studio albums, The Soul Sessions (2003) and Mind Body & Soul (2004).{{cite web |url=http://s-curverecords.com/home/blogs/joss-stone-the-soul-sessions-vol-2 |title=Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions Vol 2! |publisher=S-Curve Records |accessdate=7 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704001038/http://s-curverecords.com/home/blogs/joss-stone-the-soul-sessions-vol-2 |archive-date=4 July 2012}} Stone stated, "I really had fun revisiting The Soul Sessions{{'}} idea and I'm really pleased with the results. I've committed long term to my label Stone'd Records, but it felt right to team up with Steve Greenberg and S-Curve again for this release. I think there are some great songs on the album and I loved performing them with such brilliant musicians."

On 6 June 2012, Stone performed a concert at the London music venue Under the Bridge, which was streamed online via Perez Hilton's website in the United States and MSN for the rest of the world.{{cite web |url=http://s-curverecords.com/home/blogs/joss-stone-live-streamed-gig |title=Joss Stone live streamed gig |publisher=S-Curve Records |date=6 June 2012 |accessdate=23 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705142652/http://s-curverecords.com/home/blogs/joss-stone-live-streamed-gig |archive-date=5 July 2012}} During the concert Stone, performed several new tracks from the album as well as previous material. Stone also performed for Billboard{{'}}s Tastemakers series in June 2012.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/photos/428656/tastemakers-joss-stone |title=Tastemakers: Joss Stone |magazine=Billboard |date=28 June 2012 |accessdate=24 March 2013}} Stone performed and was interviewed on the British television programme This Morning.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX74i037t4M |title=Joss Stone on this morning interview ITV1 |date=25 July 2012 |accessdate=23 September 2012 |via=YouTube}} On 27 July 2012, she performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.{{cite web |url=http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/friday-july-27-2012/1411604/ |title=The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – Friday, July 27, 2012 |publisher=NBC |accessdate=23 September 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730061630/http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/friday-july-27-2012/1411604/ |archivedate=30 July 2012}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

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

| rev2 = American Songwriter

| rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3score = C+

| rev4 = Evening Standard

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Pete |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/cds-of-the-week-7959725.html |title=CDs of the week |work=Evening Standard |date=20 July 2012 |accessdate=15 March 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120144612/http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/cds-of-the-week-7959725.html |archivedate=20 January 2015}}

| rev5 = The Guardian

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev6 = Mojo

| rev6Score = {{Rating|2|5}}

| rev7 = The Observer

| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}

| rev9 = Slant Magazine

| rev9Score = {{Rating|3|5}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 |magazine=Uncut |location=London |date=September 2012 |page=86 |issn=1368-0722}}

}}

The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 60, based on 11 reviews.{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/the-soul-sessions-vol-2/joss-stone |title=Reviews for The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2 by Joss Stone |website=Metacritic |accessdate=20 September 2012}} Mojo magazine said it "sounds like a calculated genre exercise",{{cite magazine |title=Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 |magazine=Mojo |date=September 2012 |page=90 |issn=1351-0193}} while Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly found the covers "passionately pointless" when compared to the originals.{{cite magazine |last=Anderson |first=Kyle |title=Albums |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |issue=1218 |date=3 August 2012 |page=74 |issn=1049-0434}} Slant Magazine{{'}}s Jonathan Keefe said the album sounds commonplace because of its attempt to recreate "a vintage R&B vibe rather than looking to classic styles as a source of inspiration for something more contemporary or creative".{{cite web |last=Keefe |first=Jonathan |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/joss-stone-the-soul-sessions-vol-2/ |title=Review: Joss Stone, The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 |website=Slant Magazine |date=30 July 2012 |accessdate=15 December 2019}} Hermione Hoby of The Observer wrote that Stone's singing is "technically irreproachable throughout, [but] every track is attacked with all the timidity of a tsunami—enough to prompt the peevish complaint that force and feeling are not the same thing."{{cite web |last=Hoby |first=Hermione |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jul/22/joss-stone-soul-sessions-vol-2-review |title=Joss Stone: Soul Sessions Vol 2 – review |work=The Observer |date=22 July 2012 |accessdate=15 March 2015}} Jody Rosen, writing in Rolling Stone, was more critical and felt Stone's "musical instincts are off [...] she steamrolls nearly every song with her bombastic blues growl."{{cite magazine |last=Rosen |first=Jody |author-link=Jody Rosen |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-soul-sessions-vol-2-185842/ |title=The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=31 July 2012 |accessdate=15 December 2019}}

In a more enthusiastic review for AllMusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine believed "for the most part, The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2 does feel right: it has the form and sound of classic soul while never acknowledging that R&B continued to develop past, say, 1972. For an audience that agrees with that thesis, this is fun."{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-soul-sessions-vol-2-mw0002392823 |title=The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2 – Joss Stone |website=AllMusic |accessdate=10 August 2012}} The Guardian{{'}}s Dave Simpson described the album as "a powerful, heartfelt and classy comeback", claiming that Stone has "certainly returned to her debut's soul covers format in more mature and superb voice."{{cite web |last=Simpson |first=Dave |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jul/19/joss-stone-soul-sessions-2-review |title=Album: The Soul Sessions Vol.2 |work=The Guardian |date=19 July 2012 |accessdate=15 March 2015}} Hal Horowitz of American Songwriter called the album "pretty terrific" as it "proves the UK singer is serious about her classic American R&B".{{cite web |last=Horowitz |first=Hal |url=https://americansongwriter.com/joss-stone-the-soul-sessions-vol-2/hal-horowitz/ |title=Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions Vol.2 |work=American Songwriter |date=23 July 2012 |accessdate=15 December 2019}} John Aizlewood of BBC Music viewed The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 as "Stone's most focused and rewarding album since Vol 1".{{cite web |last=Aizlewood |first=John |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wz8r |title=Review of Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions Vol 2 |publisher=BBC Music |date=13 July 2012 |accessdate=23 September 2012}}

The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart with 8,414 copies sold in its first week, Stone's first top-10 album in the United Kingdom since Mind Body & Soul (2004).{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Alan |url=https://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/official-charts-analysis-plan-b-album-sells-37k-to-hit-no-1-2/051174 |title=Official Charts Analysis: Plan B album sells 37k to hit No.1 |work=Music Week |date=30 July 2012 |accessdate=15 December 2019 |url-access=subscription}} In the United States, the album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 24,000 copies, becoming her fourth top-10 album on the chart.{{cite magazine |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/480549/rick-ross-scores-fourth-no-1-album-with-god-forgives-i-dont |title=Rick Ross Scores Fourth No. 1 Album With 'God Forgives, I Don't' |magazine=Billboard |date=8 August 2012 |accessdate=20 September 2012}} In continental Europe, it reached the top five in the Netherlands and Switzerland, and the top 10 in Austria and Germany.

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Original artist

| total_length = 47:51

| title1 = I Got The...

| writer1 = Labi Siffre

| extra1 = Labi Siffre (1975)

| length1 = 4:59

| title2 = (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People

| writer2 = Eugene Record

| extra2 = The Chi-Lites (1971)

| length2 = 3:44

| title3 = While You're Out Looking for Sugar

| writer3 = {{hlist|Ronald Dunbar|Edythe Wayne}}

| extra3 = Honey Cone (1969)

| length3 = 3:28

| title4 = Sideway Shuffle

| writer4 = Linda Lewis

| extra4 = Linda Lewis (1974)

| length4 = 3:38

| title5 = I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You

| writer5 = {{hlist|Eddie Floyd|Joe Shamwell}}

| extra5 = Dorothy Moore (1976)

| length5 = 5:00

| title6 = Teardrops

| writer6 = {{hlist|Cecil Womack|Linda Womack}}

| extra6 = Womack & Womack (1988)

| length6 = 5:55

| title7 = Stoned Out of My Mind

| writer7 = {{hlist|Barbara Acklin|Record}}

| extra7 = The Chi-Lites (1973)

| length7 = 3:12

| title8 = The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)

| writer8 = {{hlist|Terry Callier|Larry Wade}}

| extra8 = The Dells (1971)

| length8 = 4:42

| title9 = The High Road

| writer9 = {{hlist|James Mercer|Brian Burton}}

| extra9 = Broken Bells (2009)

| length9 = 4:40

| title10 = Pillow Talk

| writer10 = {{hlist|Sylvia Robinson|Michael Burton}}

| extra10 = Sylvia (1973)

| length10 = 4:42

| title11 = Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

| writer11 = John D. Loudermilk

| extra11 = The Casinos (1967)

| length11 = 3:51

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{{Track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition bonus tracks{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/the-soul-sessions-vol-2-deluxe-edition-mr0003710240 |title=The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2 [Deluxe Edition] – Joss Stone |website=AllMusic |accessdate=20 September 2012}}

| extra_column = Original artist

| total_length = 62:28

| title12 = First Taste of Hurt

| writer12 = Wilson Turbinton

| extra12 = Willie Tee (1972)

| length12 = 3:39

| title13 = One Love in My Lifetime

| writer13 = {{hlist|Theresa G. McFaddin|Lawrence Brown|Leonard Perry}}

| extra13 = Diana Ross (1976)

| length13 = 3:49

| title14 = Nothing Takes the Place of You

| writer14 = {{hlist|Toussaint McCall|Alan Robinson}}

| extra14 = Toussaint McCall (1967)

| length14 = 3:25

| title15 = (1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count the Days

| writer15 = {{hlist|Charlie Foxx|Brooks O'Dell Johnson|Jerry Williams Jr.|Yvonne Williams}}

| extra15 = Inez and Charlie Foxx (1967)

| length15 = 3:44

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition bonus track

| extra_column = Original artist

| title16 = Sideshow

| writer16 = {{hlist|Bobby Eli|Vinny Barrett}}

| extra16 = Blue Magic (1974)

| length16 = 4:57

}}

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of The Soul Sessions Vol. 2.{{cite AV media notes |title=The Soul Sessions Vol. 2 |type=deluxe edition liner notes |others=Joss Stone |publisher=S-Curve Records |year=2012 |id=0731521022}}

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• Joss Stone – vocals {{small|(tracks 1–8, 10, 12–14)}}; finger snaps {{small|(track 1)}}; lead vocals, background vocals {{small|(tracks 9, 11, 15)}}; handclaps, glockenspiel {{small|(track 15)}}
• Raymond Angry – B3 {{small|(tracks 1–3, 5, 6, 8–10, 12–14)}}; clavinet {{small|(track 4)}}; Wurlitzer electric piano {{small|(track 7)}}; piano {{small|(track 9)}}
• Clayton Ivey – Wurlitzer electric piano {{small|(tracks 1, 4–6, 15)}}; piano {{small|(tracks 2, 8, 12–14)}}; B3 {{small|(track 7)}}; Rhodes {{small|(track 10)}}
• Ernie Isley – guitar {{small|(tracks 1, 3–7, 9, 10, 13–15)}}
• Pete Iannacone – bass {{small|(all tracks)}}
• Tony Royster Jr. – drums {{small|(all tracks)}}
• Eric Darken – finger snaps {{small|(track 1)}}; percussion {{small|(tracks 4, 15)}}; tambourine {{small|(track 12)}}; handclaps {{small|(track 15)}}
• FILMharmonic Orchestra – strings {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• Marko Ivanović – conducting {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• Rita Chepurchenko – concert mistress {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• Nathan Kelly – string arrangement {{small|(track 1)}}; copyist, co-orchestration {{small|(tracks 6, 11, 13)}}
• John Angier – string arrangement {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• Petr Pycha – Prague orchestra contractor {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• Gary Chester – US orchestra coordination {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• William McFarlane – guitar {{small|(tracks 2, 8, 12)}}
• Delbert McClinton – harmonica {{small|(track 2)}}
• Latimore – piano {{small|(tracks 3, 15)}}; 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 {{small|(track 15)}}
• James Alexander – bass {{small|(track 3)}}
• Hollie Farris – trumpet {{small|(tracks 4, 5, 12)}}
• Jeff Watkins – saxophones {{small|(tracks 5, 12)}}
• Chris Dunn – trombone {{small|(tracks 5, 12)}}
• Betty Wright – background vocals {{small|(tracks 9, 11, 15)}}
• Steve Bryant – guitar {{small|(tracks 10, 11)}}

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• Pavel Karlík – string engineering {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 11, 13)}}
• Steve Greenwell – production, engineering, mixing
• Joss Stone – production, executive production
• Steve Greenberg – production, executive production
• Brian Nelson – executive production, project coordination
• Lowell Reynolds – engineering assistance
• Ted Tuthill – engineering assistance
• Janeen Hovnanian – production assistance
• Jill Dell'Abate – project coordination
• Chris Gehringer – mastering

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• Mr.G.e.v.Zoeller – original painting
• Rod Cousins – art direction
• David Venni – photography
• Charles Allen Smith – additional photography
• Daniel Slezinger – additional photography

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