1 	Powerless	3:39
2 	Someday We'll All Be Free	4:01
3 	Why		4:20
4 	Dancing On The Tables	3:47
5 	I Can't Make You Love Me	5:33
6 	Purple Rain	5:43
7 	Holding On To You	4:15
8 	Make You Feel My Love	3:31
9 	A Song For You	4:42

Backing Vocals – Joseph Jordan, Lee Noble
Bass Guitar, Guitar, Drum Programming – Jermaine Jordan
Cello – Ian Budge (tracks: 3)
Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Alan Welch (3) (tracks: 4)
Piano – Andrew Murray (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 9)
Saxophone – Steve Jones  (tracks: 2 to 8)
Violin – Sally Herbert (tracks: 3)
Vocals, Backing Vocals – Elkie Brooks

As superb an album as I would expect from such a performer. Elkie never wastes time on rubbish music or lyrics, she demands and gets the best from musicians who are second to none. The combination of their expertise and the always lovely lyrics tear at the emotions leaving her audience sometimes silent before applause.........a great compliment for any performer. Her ability to make me cry is a result of the sheer honesty and understanding of the depth , happiness and trembling edge of misery that real love brings. She is amazing, 68 years old, and brings to her performance not only a magical professionalism but a lifetime's experience and it shows. In this album I think her "I can't make you love me" is one of the most heart rendingly perfect songs ever and the album is worth possessing for that alone.

More please Ms Brooks for you never fail to please. Thankyou. ---JMH, amazon.com

Elkies best album since Two Days Away... I think she knows it by the branding! Her voice is as rich as ever, but smoother...like she says in her autobiography, no Rock Star strain at the higher register, and despite what she says, I think she holds a note as well as ever. Good cover song choices, 'I can't make you love me' and 'A song for you' especially natural. And high quality new songs like 'Why' and the title track just prove her everlasting brilliance. Much neglected by the Industry and the absence of a Brit is a disgrace. Give this woman her due. 50 years a real singer, through the vagaries of it all, and still putting out work of this quality. God bless the Elk. ---Honest reader, amazon.com

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1 I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues
2 Baby Get Lost
3 Blues For Mama
4 Baby What You Want Me to Do
5 Tell Me More Then Some
6 I'd Rather Go Blind
7 I Wonder Who
8 Ain't No Use
9 Nobody But You
10 I Love Your Lovin' Ways
11 Bad Bad Whiskey
12 Fine And Mellow
13 Me and My Gin
14 Mean And Evil
15 Trouble In Mind
16 Please Send Me Someone To Love 

British pop-jazz-blues crooner Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder) dominated U.K. radio in the late '70s with a series of hit singles that established her as "the biggest-selling female album artist in the history of the British pop charts." The Manchester native, who grew up in an extremely musical family, left school at the age of 15 to join a dance band in London. She eventually mad the jump to radio, as well as numerous appearances with legendary jazz bandleader Humphrey Lyttelton, before embarking on a career in pop music. The early '60s saw the budding young singer releasing singles for Decca and EMI, as well as opening for everyone from Carl Perkins to the Beatles, but commercial success remained elusive. She joined the blues-rock band Dada in 1970, which would eventually find success through a name change (Vinegar Joe) and the arrival of a new vocalist, Robert Palmer. The popular group released three beloved records before disbanding in 1974, and after a brief stint with U.S. Southern rock band Wet Willie, Brooks decided to take another crack at a solo career. The resulting Rich Man's Woman, Two Days Away, Shooting Star, Live & Learn, Pearls, and Pearls II, as well as frequent sold-out tours and numerous silver, gold, and platinum recordings, would go on to cement her reputation well into the 21st century. --- James Christopher Monger, Rovi

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