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:

1. You Don’t Know What Love Is – Gene de Paul, Don Raye
2. Good Morning Heartache – Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higgenbotham
3. My Old Flame – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
4. Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
5. At Last – Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
6. Tenderly – Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence
7. I Only Have Eyes for You – Al Dubin, Warren
8. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) – Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
9. You Go to My Head – John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie
10. A Sunday Kind of Love – Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes
11. If It’s the Last Thing I Do – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
12. Only Women Bleed – Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner