Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics
album by Aaron Neville
Bring It On Home… The Soul Classics is an album by Aaron Neville, in which he covers several classic soul songs that were made popular from 1957 to 1971. The album was released September 19, 2006, and reached No. 20 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 38 on the Billboard 200 chart dated October 6, 2006.
Track listing
Track information and credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
Personnel
Musicians
Aaron Neville – vocals
Neil Larsen – acoustic piano, electric piano, organ, arrangements, horn arrangements, string arrangements (7)
Ray Parker Jr. – electric guitar, backing vocals (9)
Heitor Pereira – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Freddie Washington – bass, backing vocals (9)
James Gadson – drums, backing vocals (9)
Dan Higgins – saxophones
David Woodford – saxophones
Lee Thornburg – trumpet
Stewart Levine – arrangements
Aaron Zigman – string arrangements (1–6, 8–14)
Additional musicians
Joe Sample – acoustic piano (3–5, 8, 14), electric piano (3–5, 8, 14)
Art Neville – organ (10)
Jack Ashford – tambourine (3, 6, 9, 12, 14)
Lenny Castro – percussion (4, 5, 8, 10, 11)
David Sanborn – saxophone (10)
Chris Botti – trumpet (1)
Mavis Staples – vocals (6)
Chaka Khan – vocals (8)
Jason Neville – backing vocals (6, 9, 14)
Aaron Neville, Jr.
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