Paula Cole - Ballads (2017)

After seven studio albums, Singer/Songwriter Paula Cole launched a kickstarter campaign to fund a ballad cover album, which has now been completed. More beautiful than ever, in a twenty-plus-year-career, Paula Cole releases Ballads, a twenty-song collection of American jazz and folk classics from the 1930’s to the 1960’s. It is dedicated to her father, Jim Cole.

Cole started as a jazz singer and now returns, at nearly 50 years of age, to pay homage to her first love of jazz and folk. A self-described “mother and human being first” Cole is a timeless voice not only in song, but for those who have felt pain, and who still stand shining light, against all odds. With a voice that is big, rich and gorgeous, a mind that is intelligent, and a heart that transforms suffering into beauty, Paula Cole sings for our enlightenment, for our souls. Ballads is a journey to Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, to John Coltrane and Nina Simone, to Bobbie Gentry and Nancy Wilson, sung by a stunning Paula Cole we’ve not yet heard.

TRACKLIST

01. God Bless the Child
02. I Wish (I Knew How It Feels to Be Free)
03. Naima
04. Ode to Billy Joe
05. You've Changed
06. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
07. I'm Old Fashioned
08. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
09. Never Will I Marry
10. Skylark
11. The Ballad of Hollis Brown
12. Body and Soul
13. Nice Work If You Can Get It
14. Farewell, My Friends
15. I Cover the Waterfront
16. Blue Moon
17. You Hit the Spot
18. Willow Weep for Me
19. Autumn Leaves
20. My One and Only Love