Soul Session Live

1989 live album by James Brown & Friends

Soul Session Live

Live album by

James Brown & Friends

Released

1989 (1989)

Recorded

1988

Venue

Club Taboo, Detroit, MI

Genre

Soul, pop

Length

42:54

Label

Scotti Bros.

Producer

Johnny Musso
Narada Michael Walden ("Gimme Your Love" only)

James Brown live albums chronology

Live at Chastain Park
(1988)

Soul Session Live
(1989)

Love Power Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971
(1992)

Singles from Soul Session Live

"Gimme Your Love"
Released: 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Show Introduction"		James Brown	0:28
2.	"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"	Brown	Brown	3:15
3.	"How Do You Stop"	Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight	Brown	5:22
4.	"Cold Sweat"	Brown, Pee Wee Ellis	Brown, Wilson Pickett	4:08
5.	"Out of Sight"	Brown	Billy Vera	2:34
6.	"When a Man Loves a Woman"	Calvin Lewis, Andrew Wright	Joe Cocker	5:46
7.	"Gimme Your Love"	Narada Michael Walden, Jeffrey Cohen	Brown, Aretha Franklin	5:16
8.	"I'll Go Crazy"	Brown	Brown, Joe Cocker	3:16
9.	"I Got You (I Feel Good)"	Brown	Brown, Robert Palmer	3:25
10.	"Try Me"	Brown	Brown, Robert Palmer	5:18
11.	"Living in America"	Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight	Brown & Friends	4:06

References

^ (1989). Soul Session Live [CD liner notes]. Santa Monica: Scotti Brothers Records.
^ "A List of 32nd Annual Grammy Nominees". Associated Press. January 11, 1990. Archived from the original on March 11, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.