In June 1999, “RCA” label released “Heart of a Woman”, the twenty-third Etta James studio album. It was recorded in March 1999, and was produced by John Snyder and Etta James.
Personnel:
- Etta James – vocals, arrangements, art direction, photography, liner notes
- Bobby Murray – guitar
- Josh Sklair – acoustic and electric guitar, arrangements, musical director, production assistant
- Dave Matthews – electric piano, piano, arrangements
- Mike Finnigan – organ
- Sametto James – bass, drum programming, production assistant
- Donto Metto James – drums, drum programming, production assistant
- Pete Escovedo – conga, horn, percussion
- Red Holloway – tenor saxophone
- Jimmy Zavala – tenor saxophone
- Lee Thornburg – alto horn, flugelhorn, horn arrangements, trumpet, valve trombone
- Tom Poole – flugelhorn, trumpet
- Jay Newland – engineer, mastering
- Rob Brill – engineer assistant
- Sonny Mediana – art direction, photography
- Jeff Dunas – photography
- Lupe DeLeon – executive producer
Track listing:
- You Don’t Know What Love Is – Gene de Paul, Don Raye
- Good Morning Heartache – Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higgenbotham
- My Old Flame – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
- Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
- At Last – Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
- Tenderly – Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence
- I Only Have Eyes for You – Al Dubin, Warren
- I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) – Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
- You Go to My Head – John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie
- A Sunday Kind of Love – Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes
- If It’s the Last Thing I Do – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
- Only Women Bleed – Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner
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