All The Morning Brings

ROD STEWART Some Guys Have All The Luck (2008 UK 'Deluxe Edition' 3-disc [2CD/1DVD] set - This assembled collection presents stellar tracks spanning 1971 - 1998 including a Faces favourite ['Stay With Me'], decades of solo hits, unplugged gems, soundtrack selections and more…

After her tough blues and R&B records in the early years of the 21st century – 2003's Let's Roll and 2004's Blues to the Bone – Etta James throws a quiet storm changeup. All the Way's 11 tracks are pop songs – indeed, a few are standards – written between the 1930s and the 1990s. James song choices are curious. The Great American Songbook tunes include the title track (written by Samuel Kahn and Jimmy Van Heusen), Leonard Bernstein's and Stephen Sondheim's "Somewhere" from West Side Story, and even Bob Telson's "Calling You" from the score to the 1987 film Baghdad Cafe – it's been recorded by everyone from Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion to Jeff Buckley and Gal Costa…