Beverley Knight - Soul Covers, Volume 2 (2007-2010)

Here's the second of four albums I've made of British singer Beverley Knight performing classic soul songs.

As I mentioned in my post for Volume 1, until recently I'd never heard of Knight, since I'm American and she's only a star in Britain. But if you like soul music from the 1960s and 1970s, you don't need to know much about her to enjoy this. In short, she has an incredible "diva" voice, but also knows not to get carried away with oversinging to show off, and she has great taste in covers.

The vast majority of the songs on Volume 1 were officially released, but this time all but one performance is unreleased. (The one exception is "Rock Steady.") Some of the songs here were done by her on record, but I avoided those versions in favor of performances done on TV or radio shows, and concerts. These pretty much all have very good sound quality, because I was selective. The vast majority of these were done on TV or radio shows, so they were professionally recorded.

Here's a list of the artists that made the songs famous:

01 Ain't That a Lot of Love - Homer Banks
02 Raspberry Beret - Prince
03 Think - It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
04 Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
05 I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan
06 We Can Work It Out - Beatles
07 Joy to the World - Isaac Watts & Lowell Mason
08 Silent Night - Franz Xaver Gruber & Joseph Mohr
09 Disrespectful - Chaka Khan
10 Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees
11 We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
12 Let It Be - Beatles
13 His Eye Is on the Sparrow - Mahalia Jackson

Here's the usual song list:

01 Ain't That a Lot of Love (Beverley Knight with Jools Holland)
02 Raspberry Beret (Beverley Knight)
03 Think - It Takes Two (Beverley Knight)
04 Rock Steady (Beverley Knight)
05 I'm Every Woman (Beverley Knight & Jocelyn Brown)
06 We Can Work It Out (Beverley Knight & Charlotte Church)
07 Joy to the World (Beverley Knight)
08 Silent Night (Beverley Knight)
09 Disrespectful (Chaka Khan & Beverley Knight)
10 Too Much Heaven (Beverley Knight)
11 We've Only Just Begun (Beverley Knight)
12 Let It Be (Beverley Knight)
13 His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Beverley Knight with Jools Holland)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15423694/BeverlyKn_2007-2010_SoulCovrsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a 2009 concert in Brighton, Britain.