Soul Ballads

   


 
01. Midnight Train To Georgia
02. Change Is Gonna Come
03. People Get Ready
04. If You Don't Know Me By Now
05. Sunny
06. I've Been Lovin' You Too Long
07. Dock Of The Bay
08. Ruby
09. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
10. You Don't Know Me
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. When A Man Loves A Woman

Produced: 2010
Produced & Arranged by Lou Pomanti
Executive Producer David Clayton-Thomas
Recorded at Kick Audio and Desert Fish Inc, Toronto, Canada
Mixed at Desert Fish Inc
Recorded and Mixed by Jeff Wolpert
Additional Recording Greg Kolchinsky
Assisted by Sydney Galbraith and Grant McCauley
Mastered by Peter J Moore
 

 

The album consists of songs that the he performed back in Canada in the early sixties and that made him the artist he is.
There are many strong songs on the album. I could mention all, but I just pick out a few. Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”
treads on sacred ground, but he does a great job with it. ”You Really Got a Hold on Me”, with a nice harmonica on the opening section
and it’s bluesy arrangement. ”When a Man Loves a Woman”, the performance is so strong, and it’s one of the highlights of the album.
”Sunny” a great version of a great song in a rather stripped back arrangement. My favorite version of ”People Get Ready” is Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck.
 But I really enjoyed David’s version, the mix of blues, soul and gospel works really well.
Producer Lou Pomanti has done great job in producing the album.


RHYTHM SECTION
 
Keyboards… Lou Pomanti
Guitars… Bernie LaBarge Jake Langley
Basses… Scott Alexander, George Koller, Rich Brown
Drums… Larnell Lewis, Mark Kelso
 
STRINGS
 
Violins… Marie Berard, Adele Armin Riley, Carol Fujino, Drew Jurecka, Csaba Koczo, Rebekah Wolkstein.
Cellos… David Heatherington, Elspeth Poole.
 
HORNS
 
Trumpets… Jason Logue, Dave Dunlop
Saxophones… Pol Coussee, Perry White
Trombone… William Carn
Flugelhorn… Guido Basso
Harmonica… Rolly Platt
Percussion… Rick Lazar
 
SINGERS
 
Rique Franks, Karen LeBlanc, Gavin Hope
 
Music Preparation by Richard Maslove
 
Photos… David Deacon