The Masters: 20 Classic Tracks

Tracklist

• 1
  Ain’t Got No – I Got Life
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 2
  To Love Somebody
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 3
  I Shall Be Released
  3:58
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
  4:55
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Here Comes the Sun
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Just Like a Woman
  4:54
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Gin House Blues
  3:14
• 8
  To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  6:52
• 9
  Mr. Bojangles
  5:04
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Let It Be Me
  3:31
• 11
  Since I Fell for You
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 12
  The Look of Love
  2:24
  3.2 ★
• 13
  Backlash Blues
  2:29
  4.6 ★
• 14
  I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
  2:33
  4.4 ★
• 15
  The House of the Rising Sun
  3:55
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Do What You Gotta Do
  3:00
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Angel of the Morning
  3:34
  4.5 ★
• 18
  The Times They Are A‐Changin’
  6:05
  3.0 ★
• 19
  I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
  4:49
  3.0 ★
• 20
  O‐o‐h Child
  3:17
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al Schackman
  guitar [3-4, 18]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [12, 16, 18], timpani [16, 18]
• Bruce Somerfeld
  executive [10]
• Buck Clarke
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Carl Lynch
  guitar [16]
• Danny Davis
  producer [2, 11-15]
• Don Alias
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 3-4], percussion [4, 18]
• Doris Willingham
  background vocals [3, 3-4, 18]
• Edwin Begley
  recording [1, 5-6, 9-10, 17, 20]
• Eric Gale
  electric guitar [12], guitar [16]
• Ernest Hayes
  harpsichord [12], organ [16], piano [12]
• Garnett Brown
  trombone [16]
• Gene A Perla
  bass [3-4, 18], electric bass guitar [3, 18]
• Gene Taylor
  electric bass guitar [1, 12]
• Harold Johnson
  trumpet [16]
• Harold Wheeler
  arranger [5-6, 9-10, 17, 20], conductor [5-6, 9-10, 17, 20], producer [5-6, 9-10, 17, 20]
• Henry Young
  guitar [16]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [16], conductor [16]
• Jerry Jemmott
  electric bass guitar [16]
• Jimmy Wisner
  arranger [2], conductor [2]
• Joe René
  producer [1, 16]
• Joe Shepley
  trumpet [16]
• Mickey Crofford
  recording [11, 13-15]
• Mike Moran
  recording [2-4, 18]
• Nat Shapiro
  producer [5-6, 9-10, 17, 20]
• Nina Simone
  arranger [3-6, 9-10, 17-20], conductor [3-4, 18], lead vocals [1-5, 10, 16, 18], piano [1-4, 10, 16, 18-19], producer [10], vocal [12, 19]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [16]
• Ray Hall
  engineer [12], recording [2-4, 11, 13-16, 18-19]
• Rudy Stevenson
  electric guitar [1, 12]
• Sam Ellis
  performer [14]
• Sam Waymon
  background vocals [10], organ [1], other instruments [10]
• Sammy Lowe
  arranger [12], conductor [12]
• Specs Powell
  percussion [16], tambourine [16], vibraphone [16]
• Stuart Scharf
  guitar [4]
• Tom Berman
  artists and repertoire [16]
• Virdia Crawford
  background vocals [3, 3-4, 18]
• Weldon Irvine
  organ [3, 18]
• Wilbur "Dud" Bascomb
  trumpet [16]
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Issues

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  The Masters: 20 Classic Tracks

  CD
  10 November 1998