Birthright is a solo album

Solo album

A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in 2004 and released on the Hyena label in 2005.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Birthright is the album Ulmer should have made years ago. All that matters is that listeners have it now. It's a shining star in his catalog and a chillingly intimate portrait of his expansive vision and singular talent".

Birthright was selected as the Blues Album of the Year in the 2005 Down Beat

Down Beat

Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois...

Readers' Poll.

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated.

1. "Take My Music Back to the Church" - 4:43
2. "I Can't Take It Anymore" - 2:39
3. "Where Did All the Girls Come From" - 5:06
4. "I Ain't Superstitious" (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) - 3:47
5. "White Man's Jail" - 3:59
6. "High Yellow" - 3:17
7. "The Evil One" - 3:33
8. "Geechee Joe" - 4:13
9. "Love Dance Rag" - 4:08
10. "Sittin' on Top of the World
    Sitting on Top of the World
    "Sitting on Top of the World" is a folk-blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon, core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, a popular country blues band of the 1930s...
    
    " (Traditional) - 4:13
11. "My Most Favorite Thing" - 2:49
12. "Devil's Got to Burn" - 9:31
    • Recorded at Gigantic Studios, NYC, in 2004