My Secret Life (Eric Burdon album)

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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.

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. </ref>

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

Track	Song Title	Written by	Time
1.	Once Upon a Time	Eric Burdon, Robert Bradley	3:51
2.	Motorcycle Girl	Eric Burdon, Marcelo Nova	3:52
3.	Over the Border	David Munyon	4:27
4.	The Secret	Greg Barnhill, Mike Chapman	5:47
5.	Factory Girl	Tony Braunagel, Eric Burdon	4:40
6.	Highway 62	Tony Braunagel, Eric Burdon, Johnny Lee Schell	5:29
7.	Jazzman	Eric Burdon, Dean Restum	3:47
8.	Black and White World	Eric Burdon, Marcelo Nova	3:28
9.	Heaven	David Byrne, Jerry Harrison	4:44
10.	Devil Slide	Eric Burdon, Marcelo Nova	3:35
11.	Broken Records	Eric Burdon	3:25
12.	Can't Kill the Boogieman	Eric Burdon	3:59
13.	My Secret Life	Leonard Cohen	5:51

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
• James "Hutch" Hutchinson – bass
• Nick Lane – trombone
• Darrell Leonard – trumpet, flugelhorn, trombonium
• Reggie McBride – bass
• 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
• 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
• Duane Seykora – engineer

See also

• My Secret Life Tour 2004