Product Overview
After the Rain is the eighteenth studio album by Irma Thomas. After the Rain won the Best Contemporary Blues Album, at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, which was the first time Thomas won a Grammy Award in her career.
The album was recorded at the Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana, only months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed Thomas' home in New Orleans.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "In the Middle Of It All" | Arthur Alexander | 4:45 |
2. | "Flowers" | Gwil Owen / Kevin Gordon | 4:22 |
3. | "I Count the Tears" | Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman | 3:03 |
4. | "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" | traditional | 4:30 |
5. | "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" | Billy Taylor | 3:03 |
6. | "If You Knew How Much" | David Egan | 2:27 |
7. | "Another Man Done Gone" | Irma Thomas / Scott Billington / Traditional | 3:49 |
8. | "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" | Clyde Otis | 3:27 |
9. | "These Honey Dos" | Corey Harris / David Egan / Irma Thomas | 4:27 |
10. | "Another Lonely Heart" | Eleni Mandell | 4:20 |
11. | "Soul of a Man" | Blind Willie Johnson | 3:01 |
12. | "Stone Survivor" | David Egan | 3:49 |
13. | "Shelter in the Rain" | Stevie Wonder | 4:14 |
Personnel
- Juanita Brooks - background vocals
- Marc Broussard - background vocals
- David Egan - piano
- Charles "Chucky C" Elam, III - background vocals
- Corey Harris - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Sonny Landreth - slide guitar
- Stanton Moore - drums, percussion
- Dirk Powell - fiddle, fretless banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- James Singleton - acoustic bass
- David Torkanowsky - Hammond B3 organ, piano
- Irma Thomas - vocals[2]