The Soul Sessions Released 16 September 2003 (2003-09-16 ) Recorded 9 April – 12 May 2003 Genre Length 42 :06 Label Producer
"Fell in Love with a Boy" Released: 24 January 2004 (2004-01-24 )
"Super Duper Love" Released: 10 May 2004 (2004-05-10 )
The Soul Sessions is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone . It was released on 16 September 2003 by S-Curve Records and EMI /Virgin Records .
When The Soul Sessions was released on 16 September 2003. At the time Stone was just 16 years old. The album took four days to record.[1] The songs on the album are cover versions of classic soul songs.[2]
The Soul Sessions received positive reviews from music critics.[12]
Writer(s) Original artist
1.
"The Chokin' Kind" Harlan Howard Waylon Jennings (1967)
3:35
2.
"Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin' on Me?) Pt. 1" Willie Garner Sugar Billy (1974)
4:20
3.
"Fell in Love with a Boy" Jack White The White Stripes (2001)
3:38
4.
"Victim of a Foolish Heart"
Charles Buckins
George Jackson
Bettye Swann (1972)
5:31
5.
"Dirty Man" Bobby Miller Laura Lee (1967)
2:59
6.
"Some Kind of Wonderful" John Ellison Soul Brothers Six (1967)
3:56
7.
"I've Fallen in Love with You" Carla Thomas Carla Thomas (1968)
4:29
8.
"I Had a Dream" John Sebastian John Sebastian (1970)
3:01
9.
"All the King's Horses" Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin (1972)
3:03
10.
"For the Love of You Pts. 1 & 2"
Ernest Isley
Marvin Isley
O'Kelly Isley, Jr.
Ronald Isley
Rudolph Isley
Christopher Jasper
The Isley Brothers (1975)
7:33
Writer(s) Original artist
11.
"The Player"
Norman Harris
Allan Felder
First Choice (1974)
4:41
1.
"Fell in Love with a Boy" (video)
2.
"Super Duper Love" (video)
3.
"It's a Man's Man's World" (live at Kennedy Center , Washington, D.C. , 7 December 2003) (audio)
3:35
4.
"Victim of a Foolish Heart" (live at Ronnie Scott's, London , 25 November 2003) (audio)
6:25
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↑ Baillie, Russell. "Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions" . The New Zealand Herald .
↑ MacNeil, Jason (13 January 2003). "Joss Stone: The Soul Sessions" . PopMatters .
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↑ Christgau, Robert . "Edges of the Groove" . The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2015-10-05 .
↑ Batey, Angus (2 February 2004). "Joss Stone – 'The Soul Sessions' " . Yahoo! Music UK . Archived from the original on 17 June 2004. Retrieved 21 August 2012 .
↑ "The Soul Sessions – Joss Stone" . Metacritic . CBS Interactive.
↑ "Discos de Oro y Platino" (in Spanish). Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers . Archived from the original on 11 January 2009.
↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 Albums" (PDF) . Australian Recording Industry Association .
↑ "Austrian album certifications – Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions" (in German). IFPI Austria. 29 November 2006.
↑ "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 2006" . Ultratop . Hung Medien. 9 September 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 5 October 2015 .
↑ "Canadian album certifications – Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions" . Music Canada . 28 April 2004.
↑ "Certifications Albums Or – année 2005" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. 14 April 2005. Archived from the original on 29 August 2011.
↑ "Les Albums Or" (in French). InfoDisc. Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2015-10-05 .
↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Joss Stone; ' The Soul Sessions' )" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
↑ "Top 50 Ξένων Άλμπουμ" [Top 50 Foreign Albums] (in Greek). IFPI Greece. 3–9 October 2004. Archived from the original on 10 October 2004.
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↑ "The Irish Charts - 2005 Certification Awards - Platinum" . Irish Recorded Music Association.
↑ "Musica: In radio 'You Had Me', nuovo singolo di Joss Stone" (in Italian). Adnkronos. 2 September 2004. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012.
↑ "Goud/Platina" (in Dutch). NVPI. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008.
↑ "New Zealand album certifications – Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions" . Recorded Music NZ . 26 April 2004.
↑ "Trofeer" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.
↑ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (' The Soul Sessions' )" . IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
↑ Jones, Alan (30 July 2012). "Official Charts Analysis: Plan B album sells 37k to hit No.1" . Music Week . Intent Media.
↑ "British album certifications – Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions" . British Phonographic Industry . 15 April 2005. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type The Soul Sessions in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
↑ Cantor, Paul (22 July 2011). "Joss Stone Enjoys New Freedom on 'LP1' " . Billboard . Prometheus Global Media.
↑ "American album certifications – Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions" . Recording Industry Association of America . 29 March 2004.
↑ "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 2004" . International Federation of the Phonographic Industry .