ARTIST: Etta James
TITLE: All The Way
LABEL: RCA Victor
GENRE: Soul
BITRATE: 194kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 51min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-14
RIP DATE: 2006-03-03

Track List

01. All The Way                     3:36
02. Stop On By                      4:07
03. Strung Out                      7:11
04. Somewhere                       2:15
05. Holding Back The Years          4:18
06. Imagine                         3:38
07. I Believe I Can Fly             5:09
08. It's A Man's Man's World        4:53
09. Purple Rain                     5:45
10. What's Going On                 4:27
11. Calling You                     6:13

Release Notes:

With a new slimmed-down look, a rejuvenated stage show and celebrating an incredible
five decades as a recording artist, music legend Etta James will showcase her
enduring artistry on an amazing diversity of the eleven songs featured on her new
BMG album, “All The Way.”
Due in stores March 14, 2006 and produced by Etta’s sons Donto and Sametto and
longtime musical associate Josh Sklair, “All The Way” includes a range of material
that would prove challenging for even the most competent vocalists: “This is an
album of songs that I’ve always loved, tunes that I heard and thought, ‘wish I could
have been the one to do that one first!’” explains the three-time Grammy winner, who
has also been the recipient of a NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award, a Rhythm & Blues
Foundation Pioneer Award and is a W.C. Handy Foundation honoree. “For the first time
in my fifty-three years of recording, I really had control over an entire album,
start to finish. And that feels really good! I got to make an album that I can
listen to and say, “I really like this record!’”

James, honored with a much-deserved star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame, adds her
special vocal magic to songs originally recorded by Prince (“Purple Rain”), Marvin
Gaye (“What’s Going On”), Bobby Womack (“Stop On By”) and Simply Red (“Holding Back
The Years”) alongside Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” (from ‘West Side Story’) and
“All The Way,” the standard most often associated with Frank Sinatra. For good
measure, Etta also included R. Kelly’s contemporary classic, “I Believe I Can Fly,”
James Brown’s enduring “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” and John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
Rounding out the musical solid set are “Calling You,” (from ‘Baghdad Café’) and
“Strung Out,” a tune originally cut by R&B legend Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, with whom
Etta toured during her teen years after being discovered by bandleader Johnny Otis
in 1955.

The release of the 1993 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee’s latest project, the
follow-up to the 2004 Grammy-winning BMG set “Blues To The Bone,” comes at a time
when Etta is showing off her new look: after losing some 200 pounds in weight, the
Los Angeles native grins, ““Now I can flaunt my figure wherever I go. I can go
shopping and buy those outfits I always wanted to wear!” The loss of weight has also
dramatically changed Etta’s always-exciting stage performances: “Now I can stand up
on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang…”