Sweet Soulful Music

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Sweet Soulful Music
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 2006
Recorded18–29 April 2005
StudioSphere Studios, London
Genre Rock
Label Proper Records [1]
Producer Glyn Johns [2]
Andy Fairweather Low chronology
Mega Shebang
(1980)
Sweet Soulful Music
(2006)
Best of Andy Fairweather Low – Low Rider
(2008)
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Sweet Soulful Music, released in August 2006, was Andy Fairweather Low's first solo album in twenty six years. [5] It reunited Low with producer Glyn Johns.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Andy Fairweather Low; except where indicated

  1. "One More Rocket"
  2. "Hymn 4 My Soul"
  3. "What'd You Take Me to Be"
  4. "Ashes and Diamonds"
  5. "Bible Black Starless Sky"
  6. "Don't Stand"
  7. "Life Ain't No Competition"
  8. "Zazzy"
  9. "Low Rider"
  10. "Unbroken Love"
  11. "I Don't Need"
  12. "Sweet Soulful Music"
  13. "Life Is Good"
  14. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg)

Personnel

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References

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  2. "Going solo with soulful sound". The Irish Times.
  3. "Sweet Soulful Music - Andy Fairweather Low | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  4. "Robert Christgau: Andy Fairweather Low: Sweet Soulful Music". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. "Andy Fairweather Low - Sweet Soulful Music". No Depression.