Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue

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Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1, 2002
Recorded2001
Genre
Label LeSun
Ledisi chronology
Soulsinger: The Revival
(2000)
Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue
(2002)
Lost & Found
(2007)

Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Ledisi. [1] The album won Outstanding Jazz Album at the 2003 California Music Awards. [1]

Track listing

  1. "So Right" (Ledisi Young, Sundra Manning, Nelson Braxton)
  2. "I've Got It"
  3. "Sugar / Brown Sugar"
  4. "Meeting Marcus on a Thursday"
  5. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams)
  6. "Straight No Chaser"
  7. "Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue"
  8. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz)
  9. "If You Go"
  10. "Autumn Leaves (Les feuilles mortes)" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer)
  11. "Land of the Free"
  12. "Autumn Leaves" (hidden track)

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References

  1. 1 2 "WBSS Media-Ledisi". wbssmedia.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.