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José James: New York 2020 (Live)

by José James

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    "José James: New York 2020" is the first live album from an artist with a decade long career built on his electric live show. Despite an entire year without shows, James found a way to create and connect with audiences during the peak of Coronavirus NY lockdown. José James is known for assembling some of the best live bands in the world, and his "New York 2020" crew is no exception. Each song resonates with the creative urgency of an effervescent, resilient 2020 New York City.

    This double CD edition features photos by legendary photographer Janette Beckman and a booklet insert with liner notes by the artist.

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1.
In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love Blackmagic the promise The premise the endless The sea we travel On to arrive at the Very beginning of where we started Journeying onward into the light And deeper into shadow Life will bring Trust it will bring And store the memory you unravel You messing with my emotions You messing with the way I feel about you You messing with my devotion To what I know and what is real Your love Your love is a Your heart Your heart brings a Blackmagic the promise The premise the endless The sea we travel On to arrive at the Very beginning of where we started Journeying onward into the light And deeper into shadow Life will bring Trust it will bring And store the memory you unravel I feel so close to you I feel so close to me I started with the feeling of together So why do I fear getting close to you Losing you would mean The worst had come true Holding you is all I seem to want to do Blackmagic the promise The premise the endless The sea we travel On to arrive at the Very beginning of where we started Journeying onward into the light And deeper into shadow Life will bring Trust it will bring And store the memory you unravel In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love
2.
Turn me up Get out your seat Everybody hit the dance floor Get with me I’m burning up And I’m in demand I’m so sexy steal your woman and your man I’m feeling good baby And I’m feeling free And yes I’m young, gifted and Black so just let me be Come get a taste pretty baby Let me strut my stuff And if you want more Then you can turn me up I’m feeling wonderful Doing big things in my life Let’s call it what it is My own personal paradise I'm gonna spread my wings And fly to higher heights I’m gonna raise my voice Stand with me and shine your light Turn me up So you can hear The joy in my voice When I'm smiling from ear to ear I'm on the beat I'm in the groove Watch how I do my thing When I start to show and prove Just let the rhythm of the music pull you in Let's come together on the oneu until the end This ain't no half step What we got is real No masquerade You got to play the way you feel I’m feeling wonderful Doing big things in my life Let’s call it what it is My own personal paradise I'm gonna spread my wings And fly to higher heights I’m gonna raise my voice Stand with me and shine your light Life is a party it's up you to bring the vibe Invite the whole family The ones who make you feel alive Strangers are welcomed but they gotta know their place BYO everything but break me off a taste Turn me up right now Baby let me funk it down with you Turn me up right now Baby let me funk it down with you Turn me up right now Baby let me funk it down with you Turn me up right now Baby let me funk it down with you
3.
So long we've been distant now Since you set out on your own You told me you had to find Something to believe in Never thought you'd ever leave But as you walked out the door I prayed that you would soon find All that you needed While you're out there on your own If the rain starts falling Or you get too cold If you need a place to go Oh, I just want you to know It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Oh, you can come to my door I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all So long you've been searching now But still I can see your face The memories numb this pain Just for a moment At night I lie sometimes Awake in my bed Repeating over and over Our conversation Right now as the moon is shining I know you're out somewhere And you're doing fine If you ever feel alone baby Oh, I just want you to know It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Oh, you can come to my door I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all And on that fateful day You know I will be waiting, oh You'll smile at me, then say You loved me all along And you'll come home Oh, I just want you to know It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Oh, you can come to my door I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all Oh, I just want you to know It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Oh, you can come to my door I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all Ooh, I just want you to know It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Oh, you can come to my door I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all Ooh, I just want you to know It's alright, it's alright, it's alright Oh, I just want you to know It's alright, you can come to my door, it's alright, I don't mind
4.
Love Look what you’ve done to me A love Better than any dream Oh I always wanted love without the pain Oh I always wanted thunder without rain I found a love The kind to hold The kind that lifts you from the bottom of your soul The kind that makes The broken whole That dizzy perfect out of my control I found a love That lifts me up You see my weaknesses and stay no matter what And every day I find I’m falling more and more in love with you I found a love to pull me through I found a love The kind to hold The kind that lifts you from the bottom of your soul The kind that makes The broken whole That dizzy perfect love that’s out of my control I found a love That lifts me up You see my weaknesses and stay no matter what And every day I find I’m falling more and more in love with you I found a love to lift me up and pull me through
5.
It’s finished It’s over It’s time to get out of the rain Finally sober But I need a high for this pain Once I laughed and loved and called your name But I had to choose from the drugs and the bottle and fame It’s 3 in the morning and I’m still awake reaching out Stuck on the shape of your body The taste of your mouth Once I laughed and loved and called your name But I rolled the dice and l lost on your love all the same Say what you need to Scream it Know you mean it I’m not trying to make you stay Never been good at goodbyes But let me say mine Every heart I hold I break Say what you need to Scream it Know you mean it I’m not trying to make you stay Never been good at goodbyes But let me say mine Every heart I hold I break So let’s have a coffee And let’s smoke one more cigarette You’ve heard all my stories You’re somehow not sick of me yet Once I laughed and loved and called your name But I paid the price for your love and I’ll take all the blame Say what you need to Scream it Know you mean it I’m not trying to make you stay Never been good at goodbyes But let me say mine Every heart I hold I break
6.
Do you feel what I feel? Do you know what I know? Do you see what I see? Wanna go where I wanna go? And you know I'm feeling Like a long time I waited For someone divine and maybe It's you Some say it's only Some have a feeling It's been such a long time that I I want to believe it And you know I'm feeling Like a long time I waited For someone divine and maybe It's you And I know when you're giving Your love Never let go Hold it close to you Until you feel the joy that's All around your soul Forever and a day Do you feel what I feel? Do you know what I know? Do you see what I see? Wanna go where I wanna go? And you know I'm feeling Like a long time I waited For someone divine and maybe It's you And I know when you're giving Your love, never let go Hold it close to you Until you feel the joy that's all around your soul Forever and a day Do you feel what I feel? Do you know what I know? Do you see what I see? Wanna go where I wanna go? And you know I'm feeling Like a long time I waited For someone divine and maybe It's you Maybe it's you Maybe it's you Maybe it's you I know it's you babe I know it's you babe I know it's you babe I know it's you oh oh oh
7.
Go on talk to me, baby So long say yeah Trouble and me we got to try and figure out some kinda way to go That we know Trouble it meet me every time I step around the way of danger's flow So we can let it go said I, I need someone like you To understand my Heart babe and my soul It's on my mind baby it's always Trouble, trouble, trouble Trouble, trouble, trouble And all my light lately Call on me to Struggle, struggle, struggle Struggle, struggle, struggle Since we been apart baby I can't figure out which way to go in my life Whoa since you left my heart and by my side You'll never believe me But through wrong and through right I, I need someone like you To understand my Heart babe and my soul It's on my mind baby it's always Trouble, trouble, trouble Trouble, trouble, trouble And all my light lately Call on me to Struggle, struggle, struggle Struggle, struggle, struggle Go on talk to me baby Come on talk to me baby Go on talk to me baby Come on talk to me baby Go on talk to me baby Come on talk to me baby
8.
I see an old man Sittin' on a park bench Lookin' in the skies when He can see the mouth-stench Of the range of the people Walkin' and talkin' nonsense In the park I see a man sittin' there With a newspaper Under his head and hair I think He would be down for me to tell him That he'd been waiting 'round here For all, of his life and It took time for the soul to come When it came i saw the same Old scene over and over again My friend People's talkin' and squackin' in the park, and Sittin' on a bench, thinkin' 'bout things I think of all the people of the park Sleepin' in the street Livin' from their hearts Sleepin' in the street Livin's kinda hard Sleepin' in the street People fall apart There's a park bench That's painted black and white And when you sleep there It won't get wet when you wake up Because the trees are withered And so you dry in the sunlight You sit there and you prepare to make A move and so you go through Each and every can Lookin' inside tryin' to see somethin' That you didn't see last night Wantin' to get somethin' to eat And you go down the street You see some friends of yours And then they all speak Sayin' what's happenin' man You sleepin' in the park again Yeah nothin' but a survival thang You know what i'm sayin' Insha'allah Then again my friend All they want to do Is play you like you are a fool But i know better You're safe from school Through this stay cool Mark you are mis-skewed An' now i know better I maintain black We'll overcome In the sun On the bench In the park Where you lay When it's dark And it's wet Cuz it's raining on you You have newspapers and you'd like to go home But you can't Cuz you just got put out on your own You're thinkin' 'bout your kids You're thinkin' 'bout your girl You're thinkin' of all the things you did You see the children play You hear the people barely look at you Laughing while they run away Sleeping in the street Living from the heart Sleeping in the street People fall apart In the park, where are They's every people walkin' round Lookin' at themselves far As if they were somethin' But they ain't nothin', they frontin' Not a people nowhere standing All these people are something Earth, perched on The edge of all time, and yet they search For drums imperial dreams Similarly so barred Can't buy my soul Won't sell my soul To the devil On the other level never With another rebel Under trouble I'll never see you go down My people can't go down My people can't go down Sleeping in the street Leaving from the heart Sleeping in the street People fall apart
9.
Light the words that are spoken Light the hurts that are open Like the birds that are floating Don't resist the need no-win Light the way for tomorrows Light the shame you can't swallow Make or build take or follow Beg or steal buy or borrow Light the place you go hoping Hope the meaning of knowing Know the meaning of coping Cope to build the day s'posin S'pose the place you got gone and Code the building block zoning Zone the twi like you holding Hold it tight cuz we on it This the only thing real and This the only thing real and Makes you drop what you stealing Like your lips on my skin that Make me holler and feel it In a way I can't be mad You're unstoppable female You're the probable feeling This the drop of the needle This the top of my people My intention is legal My retention is lethal Bump the shit while you rolling Roll the shit ‘til the morning Morning come in it's own way Like to live to the dawn and Put away all the nonsense Will you stay with me darlin' Will you stay with me darlin' Show you what I have dawning Build your scream to a moan and Like the place you was born in I'm original soil and People call me old soul and Like the body you owning Touch ya fill you with longing Wanna do it the long way 3 o' clock like the song say We could stay a bit longer We could stay a bit longer We have everything wanted We have everything honest Call you baby or mama Call me sugar or honey Live your life like you wanna Live your life like you want it Touch in all the right places Touchin' on empty stages Where my memory is ageless Where desire is nameless Don't forget who you came with Lovely beautiful Angel Just in case you was waiting I done made all arrangements Love the rain on my face when Water teardrop I taste it Slowly slowly we ain't in Rush or hurry or pacing Just the beauty created Just a beautiful lady Just a beautiful day to Just a moment to say this When the night becomes day and When your life becomes weighty Don't forget what my name is Don't forget what my name is Don't forget what my name is Don't forget what my name is Don't forget what my name is Don't forget what my name is Don't forget what my name is
10.
Wish I knew why I'm so in love with you No one else in this world will do Darlin' please save your love for me Run away If I were wise I'd run away But like a fool in love I stay And pray you'll save your love for me I can feel it even when you're not here Can't conceal it I really love you my dear And though I know no good can come from lovin' you I can't do a thing I'm so in love with you So darlin' help me please Have mercy on a fool like me I know I'm lost but still I plead Darlin' you'll save your love for me I can feel it even when you're not here Can't conceal it I really love you my dear And though I know no good can come from lovin' you I can't do a thing I'm so in love with you So darlin' help me please Have mercy on a fool like me I know I'm lost but still I plead Darlin' you'll save your love for me You may have fun with the crowd But for cryin' out loud Darlin' please save your love for me
11.
In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love Blackmagic the promise The premise the endless The sea we travel On to arrive at the Very beginning of where we started Journeying onward into the light And deeper into shadow Life will bring Trust it will bring And store the memory you unravel You messing with my emotions You messing with the way I feel about you You messing with my devotion To what I know and what is real Your love Your love is a Your heart Your heart brings a Blackmagic the promise The premise the endless The sea we travel On to arrive at the Very beginning of where we started Journeying onward into the light And deeper into shadow Life will bring Trust it will bring And store the memory you unravel I feel so close to you I feel so close to me I started with the feeling of together So why do I fear getting close to you Losing you would mean The worst had come true Holding you is all I seem to want to do Blackmagic the promise The premise the endless The sea we travel On to arrive at the Very beginning of where we started Journeying onward into the light And deeper into shadow Life will bring Trust it will bring And store the memory you unravel In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness we make love
12.
Promise in love then baby gon' take you on a high Promise in love then baby let's make everything alright Promise in love then baby we're living for today Promise in love then baby let's take it all the way Yes babe I know that you are The only one for Me and it's already There on your face Something I can do Nothing I won't lose Baby you're the only One for me and I know that You and I stepping in the Club tonight we're so close so Close inside feeling like our Hearts might explode Nothing left to prove Only me and you Spreading light into the World is what we plan to do Promise in love then baby gon' take you on a high Promise in love then baby let's make everything alright Promise in love then baby we living for today Promise in love then baby let's take it all the way And now a song Sweet and simple like a song And now we sway To eternal life of praise And now tonight Love and touch you divine And now we say Love has given us this day Promise in love then baby gon' take you on a high Promise in love then baby let's make everything alright Promise in love then baby we living for today Promise in love then baby let's take it all the way
13.
Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Heaven is a moment when Beautiful melodies pour from your body You are in my life to stay Let’s go inside to the magic place Of love Of seduction Of dance Lovers do Of love Of seduction I’ve known love and intrigue since I’ve been with you Darling come and slide with me in bed We’ll lay and watch the morning sun rise through the day Moving towards you we embrace And find the sweetness that is made for love Made for love Made for love Made for love Made for love Let’s make love Let’s make love Let’s make love Let’s make love Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Hold me close angel This is real love This is real magic Coming from above Only our hearts Tell us right from wrong Whisper in my ears Your sweet song Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Made for love Made for love Made for love Made for love Let’s make love Let’s make love Let’s make love Let’s make love Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body Love to touch your body
14.
And I need your loving baby Maybe Crazy lately thinking of you And I need your arms around me Now that you found me Always thinking of you ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Sometimes in wonder girl I think about the way that you move me Let me talk about it Yes and everything that you bring to my life You’re my pride and joy and Everything is gonna be alright Everything gonna be alright You and I alone together This love could bring us to a higher place I know if we can get together And I need your loving baby Maybe Crazy lately thinking of you And I need your arms around me Now that you found me Always thinking of you You're not the average man You blew my mind And you invaded my thoughts Yes I've gotta speak about it When you're around me I feel complete You're all that matters to me I know I'm gonna be alright Everything's gonna be alright With you baby Our love can conquer the world Hey imagine what we can do We belong together And I need your loving baby Maybe Crazy lately thinking of you And I need your arms around me Now that you found me Always thinking of you
15.
I see an old man Sittin' on a park bench Lookin' in the skies when He can see the mouth-stench Of the range of the people Walkin' and talkin' nonsense In the park I see a man sittin' there With a newspaper Under his head and hair I think He would be down for me to tell him That he'd been waiting 'round here For all, of his life and It took time for the soul to come When it came i saw the same Old scene over and over again My friend People's talkin' and squackin' in the park, and Sittin' on a bench, thinkin' 'bout things I think of all the people of the park Sleepin' in the street Livin' from their hearts Sleepin' in the street Livin's kinda hard Sleepin' in the street People fall apart There's a park bench That's painted black and white And when you sleep there It won't get wet when you wake up Because the trees are withered And so you dry in the sunlight You sit there and you prepare to make A move and so you go through Each and every can Lookin' inside tryin' to see somethin' That you didn't see last night Wantin' to get somethin' to eat And you go down the street You see some friends of yours And then they all speak Sayin' what's happenin' man You sleepin' in the park again Yeah nothin' but a survival thang You know what i'm sayin' Insha'allah Then again my friend All they want to do Is play you like you are a fool But i know better You're safe from school Through this stay cool Mark you are mis-skewed An' now i know better I maintain black We'll overcome In the sun On the bench In the park Where you lay When it's dark And it's wet Cuz it's raining on you You have newspapers and you'd like to go home But you can't Cuz you just got put out on your own You're thinkin' 'bout your kids You're thinkin' 'bout your girl You're thinkin' of all the things you did You see the children play You hear the people barely look at you Laughing while they run away Sleeping in the street Living from the heart Sleeping in the street People fall apart In the park, where are They's every people walkin' round Lookin' at themselves far As if they were somethin' But they ain't nothin', they frontin' Not a people nowhere standing All these people are something Earth, perched on The edge of all time, and yet they search For drums imperial dreams Similarly so barred Can't buy my soul Won't sell my soul To the devil On the other level never With another rebel Under trouble I'll never see you go down My people can't go down My people can't go down Sleeping in the street Leaving from the heart Sleeping in the street People fall apart
16.
Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try for me girl Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling Know it’s time to go Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try for me girl Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling Know it’s time to go Last night I Saw the writing on the wall and knew I made up my mind to give my heart to someone new (Not to you) This morning In the mirror saw a different face Boy I look too fine to waste my time waiting for you to change So baby let’s raise a glass Forget the past And make it last tonight Tonight Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try for me girl Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling Know it’s time to go Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try for me girl Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling Know it’s time to go Fast driving Got the top down and I’m feeling right I made other plans for love And plan to step you out my life (Got to do it) This morning Woke up feeling like somebody new Got to give myself a chance of loving with a heart that’s true So baby let’s raise a glass Forget the past And make it last tonight Tonight Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try for me girl Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling Know it’s time to go Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try for me girl Baby don’t cry for me babe Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling Know it’s time to go Baby don’t Don’t cry for me Baby don’t Don’t cry for me (It is time to go) Baby don’t Don’t cry for me Baby don’t Don’t cry Baby don’t Don’t cry for me Baby don’t Don’t cry Baby don’t Don’t cry for me Baby don’t Don’t cry Please Do not cry for me It is time to go Time to go baby Don’t cry for me no Don’t cry for me It is time to go Time to go Don’t cry I’ve gotta go and make up a life for myself Don’t cry for me Don’t cry for me Oh no Don’t cry for me Don’t cry for me Don’t cry for me no Don’t cry for me

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"José James: New York 2020" (Live) is the first highly anticipated live album from an artist with a decade long career built on his electric live show. Despite an entire year without shows, James found a way to create & connect with audiences during the peak of Coronavirus NY lockdown. José James is known for assembling some of the best live bands in the world, & his "New York 2020" crew is no exception. Each song resonates with the creative urgency of an effervescent, resilient 2020 New York City.

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released February 19, 2021

José James - vocals
Taali - vocals
J. Hoard - vocals
Big Yuki - piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3, synth
Marcus Machado - guitar
Ben Williams - bass, vocals
Jharis Yokely - drums

Recorded live at Levon Helm Studios on October 3rd, 2020 by Pete Hanlon
Recorded live at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC on August 13th, 2020 by Jay Eigenmann
Mixed by Brian Bender at The Motherbrain West, LA
Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios

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