All the Way (Etta James album)
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All the Way is a 2006 album recorded by American R&B singer Etta James
Etta James
Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...

. Two years after she released Blues to the Bone
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Blues to the Bone is a 2004 album by Etta James. The album contains a selection of twelve blues standards which are among her favourites. James and her sons Donto and Sametto James produced the album, which reached number four in the Billboard Top Blues chart.-Critical reception:Allmusic gave...

, James went to the recording studio in 2005 with a set of songs that share little association with her career.

Track listing

  1. "All the Way" – 3:37 (Sammy Cahn
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    , Jimmy Van Heusen)
  2. "Stop On By" – 4:08 (Thomas Truman, Bobby Womack
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    )
  3. "Strung Out" – 7:12 (Johnny Watson)
  4. "Somewhere
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    " – 2:15 (Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein
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    , Stephen Sondheim
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    )
  5. "Holding Back the Years
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    " – 4:18 (Michael James Hucknall
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    , Neil Moss)
  6. "Imagine
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    " – 3:39 (John Lennon
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    )
  7. "I Believe I Can Fly
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    " – 5:10 (R, Kelly)
  8. "It's a Man's Man's Man's World
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    " – 4:53 (James Brown
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    , Betty Newsome)
  9. "Purple Rain
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    " – 5:45 (Prince
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    )
  10. "What's Going On
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    " – 4:27 (Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland
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    , Marvin Gaye
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    )
  11. "Calling You" – 6:14 (Robert E. Telson)
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