WIN: We have 5 copies of JOOLS HOLLAND'S new album 'The Golden Age Of Song' to giveaway
Featuring: Amy Winehouse, Jessie
J, Cee Lo Green, Florence Welch, Paul Weller, Paloma Faith, Lily Rose Cooper,
Tom Jones, Rumer, James Morrison, Paolo Nutini, Joss Stone, Mick Hucknall, Caro
Emerald, Ruby Turner and Gregory Porter
The Golden Age Of Song is Jools Holland’s first major
collaborations record since 2007’s Moving Out To The Country and is out now.
Backed by one of the
most popular big bands in the world, Jools’ Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, some
very special guests popped into the recording studio to lend their
extraordinary vocal talents: Jessie J,
Tom Jones, Rumer, James Morrison, Paloma
Faith, Paul Weller, Joss Stone, Mick Hucknall, Gregory Porter and Ruby Turner.
The album comprises
twelve newly recorded studio songs and five unforgettable live performances from
Jools Holland’s popular BBC2 Hootenanny New Year’s Eve show complement the
album, making it a unique collection of timeless and beautiful songs.
From The Hootenanny:
‘Don’t Go To Strangers’ by Amy Winehouse
and Paul Weller from 2006, ‘The Lady is a Tramp’ by Lily Rose Cooper (née Allen) from 2008, Paolo Nutini with ‘Lovin’ Machine’ from 2009, Florence Welch’s sultry rendition of ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me’
(also 2009) and Cee Lo Green’s
bombastic take on Jackie Wilson’s ‘Reet Petite’ from 2010.
The Golden Age of Song combines an array of
wonderful performers with Jools’ incomparable musicianship, and the
instrumental support of his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. The inimitable soul
style of Joss Stone on the
adaptation of the 1920s Eastern European Folk tune ‘Bei Mir Bust Du Schön’, the
powerful reach of Jessie J’s voice
on ‘Get Here’, the traditional gospel standard ‘Get Away Jordan’ from the
superb Ruby Turner, the newly penned
‘Sweet Country Love Song’ from Jools himself and American jazz singer Gregory Porter, the country &
western ‘I’ll Sail My Ship Alone’ by the ever versatile Tom Jones sit alongside James
Morrison’s pop-soul take on
Stevie Wonder’s social commentary ‘A Place In The Sun’, the velvet vocals of Rumer on the 1940s pop standard ‘Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive’, the beautiful voice
of Caro Emerald with Noël Coward’s
‘Mad About The Boy’, and the uniquely wonderful vocals of Paloma Faith with Etta James’ ‘Something’s Got A Hold On Me’.
All of this, plus the
Duke Ellington jazz standard ‘I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) featuring the
distinctive vocals of Mick Hucknall,
the uplifting poetry of ‘September In The Rain’ from Paul Weller, and the 1929 Louis Armstrong classic ‘When You’re
Smiling’ from Jools Holland & His
Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, make this album an absolute must-have for
fans of Jools Holland’s impressive repertoire of musical collaborations.
“My
orchestra and I have been very fortunate in working with an array of artists of
different ages.” says Jools Holland. “We’ve
worked with people who are in their 90s, sometimes people who were born in the
19th century, but also very young talents who were born in the late part of the
20th century. The one thing we all plug into is certain old songs. Sometimes
the artists will either come on a Hootenanny show with us on New Year’s Eve, or
maybe on a Later show or one of our live concerts, and say ‘Can I get up and do
this song?’ And we’ve found, by doing it a lot, we can often get arrangements
together quite quickly, because there’s a certain gift that great songwriters
have: beautiful simplicity. So we thought it would be great fun to make a
record entitled ‘The Golden Age Of Song.
The
great thing about music is that it doesn’t matter if it’s five minutes old or
500 years old. If you can breathe life into it, you can make it brand new every
time you do it. That’s what we’ve hopefully done with some of these songs, and
we’ve accomplished it by both with inviting some old friends and welcoming some
very young ones.”
1. Paloma
Faith - Something’s Got A Hold On Me
2. Rumer
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
3. Paolo
Nutini - Lovin’ Machine (from the Hootenanny 2009)
4. Joss
Stone - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
5. Jessie
J - Get Here
6. James
Morrison - A Place In The Sun
7. Amy
Winehouse and Paul Weller - Don’t Go To Strangers
(from the Hootenanny 2006)
8. Mick
Hucknall - I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
9. Florence
Welch - My Baby Just Cares For Me (from the Hootenanny 2009)
10.
Caro Emerald - Mad About The Boy
11.
Tom Jones - I’ll Sail My Ship Alone
12.
Cee Lo Green - Reet Petite (from the Hootenanny 2010)
13.
Gregory Porter – Sweet Country Love Song
14.
Paul Weller - September In The Rain
15.
Lily Rose Cooper (née Lily Allen) - The Lady Is A Tramp
(from the Hootenanny 2008)
16.
Ruby Turner - Get Away Jordan
17. Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - When You’re
Smiling
(The Whole World Smiles
With You)
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