Simple Soul is the fifth studio album by Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts...

 released in the UK on January 29, 2001.

The album is a lot more stripped down than its predecessor, Angels and Electricity being predominantly folk and acoustic based. Many of the songs were co-written with longtime collaborator Boo Hewerdine

Boo Hewerdine

Boo Hewerdine is an English singer-songwriter. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible, formed in the 1980s, and reformed in 1994, as well as solo recordings and work for film. He lives in Ely....

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The album came about when Reader wanted to try her new recording equipment mixed with friend and former Fairground Attraction drummer Roy Dodds' new equipment. Twenty-seven songs were recorded in Dodds' studio and whilst the recordings were originally only intended to be demos, Reader was so pleased with the results she decided to keep the intimate and personal sound.

The track "I Felt a Soul Move Through Me" was written about the recent loss of Reader's father.

Track listing

1. "Wolves" (Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader/Teddy Borowiecki) - 4:30
2. "The Wanting Kind" (Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader) - 3:55
3. "Lucky Penny" (Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader) - 3:30
4. "Simple Soul" (Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader) - 4:17
5. "Adam" (Roy Dodds/Adam Kirk/Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader)- 4:33
6. "Footsteps Fall" (Boo Hewerdine/Annette Bjergfeldt) - 2:45
7. "Blues Run the Game" (Jackson C. Frank
   Jackson C. Frank
   Jackson Carey Frank was an American folk musician.-Early life:When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York...
   
   ) - 5:02
8. "I Felt a Soul Move Through Me" (Graham Henderson/Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader/Roy Dodds) - 3:50
9. "Prodigal Daughter" (Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader) - 3:39
10. "Eden" (Eddi Reader) - 5:03
11. "The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon" (Boo Hewerdine/Jacob Eriksen) - 3:19

Personnel

• Eddi Reader: Vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
• Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine is an English singer-songwriter. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible, formed in the 1980s, and reformed in 1994, as well as solo recordings and work for film. He lives in Ely....
  
  : Acoustic guitar, backing vocals, glockenspiel, tambura, toy keyboard, harmonium
• Teddy Borowiecki: Keyboards, accordion, Indian harmonium, tambura, whirly tube
• Tim Harries
  Tim Harries
  Tim Harries is a British bass player.Harries studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before going on to study Double Bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music...
  
  : Bass guitar
• Roy Dodds: Drums, percussion
• Dylan Bates: Violin
• Simon Edwards: Guitaron
• Adam Kirk: Dobro, acoustic and electric guitars
• Dawson Salah Miller: Frame drum, udu
• Johnny Scott: Pedal steel, acoustic guitar