My Secret Life (Eric Burdon album)

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My Secret Life
Studio album by Eric Burdon
Released	27 April 2004
Genre	Psychedelic rock, alternative rock
Length	57:02
Label	SPV
Producer	Tony Braunagel
Eric Burdon chronology
I Used To Be An Animal (1988) My Secret Life (2004) Athens Traffic Live (2005)

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AllMusic	[1]

My Secret Life is an album by Eric Burdon released in 2004. It was his first solo album release, which contains new titles, in nearly 16 years. It was his comeback album.^{[citation needed]}

It features many different musical directions such as jazz, blues, soul, rock, ska, rhythm and blues, folk, boogie, world and pop. Burdon said in an interview that every song is different. The album peaked No. 93 on the German album chart after it sold 20,000 copies in the UK.

Musicians on this album includes Red Young, Martin Gerschwitz, Terry Wilson and Jon Cleary.

Besides presenting the song composed in partnership with the Brazilian rocker Marcelo Nova "Black & White World" Eric Burdon shed to the English and re-recorded two songs of Marcelo Nova: "A Garota da Motocicleta" turned "Motorcycle Girl" while "Coração Satânico" became "Devil's Slide".

The working title was "The coat of many colours".

Track listing[]

Personnel[]

• Tony Braunagel – percussion, drums
• Eric Burdon – vocals
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Jon Cleary – piano
• Mike Finnigan – piano, Hammond organ
• Martin Gerschwitz – Hammond organ, electric piano
• Bob Glaub – bass guitar
• James "Hutch" Hutchinson – bass guitar
• Nick Lane – trombone
• Darrell Leonard – trumpet, flugelhorn, trombonium
• Reggie McBride – bass guitar
• Ivan Neville – piano, Hammond organ, background vocals, clavinet
• Eric Rigler – Uillean pipes, Irish whistle, whistle
• Michito Sánchez – percussion
• Johnny Lee Schell – guitar, background vocals
• Joe Sublett – soprano sax, tenor sax
• Daniel Timms – Hammond organ, Hammond B3
• Tony B! – percussion
• Gromyko Collins – background vocals
• Valerie Davis – background vocals
• Julie Delgado – background vocals
• Billy Trudell – background vocals
• Teresa James – background vocals
• Marlena Jeter – background vocals
• Kudisan Kai – background vocals
• Terry Wilson – bass guitar
• Red Young – piano, strings, Hammond organ, electric piano

Production[]

• Tony Braunagel – producer, audio production
• Eric Burdon – executive producer
• Terry Becker – engineer
• Ed Cherney – mixing
• Jörg Kyas – photography
• Marita – photography
• Johnny Lee Schell – engineer
• – engineer

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