My Secret Life is an album by Eric Burdon

Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...

 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

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, soul

Soul music

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, rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

, rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

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, folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, boogie

Boogie

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, world

World music

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 and pop

Pop music

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. Burdon said in an interview that every song is different. The album peaked #93 on the German

Germany

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 album chart after it sold 20,000 copies in the UK.

Musicians on this album includes Red Young

Red Young

Red Young is a keyboard, piano, synthesizer and organ player.- Beginnings and early success :Grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He began playing piano at age 3 and did first classical recital at age 10...

, Martin Gerschwitz, Terry Wilson and Jon Cleary

Jon Cleary (musician)

Jon Cleary is a funk and R&B musician based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is from Cranbrook in Kent, England, and has studied for the past 20 years the "musical culture and life of New Orleans," according to his website...

.

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

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Written by	Time
1.	Once Upon a Time	Eric Burdon Eric Burdon Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance... , Robert Bradley Robert Bradley Robert Bradley or Bob Bradley may refer to:*Bob Bradley , American association football manager*Bob Bradley , Australian Rules footballer*Bob Bradley , British composer, singer and songwriter...	3:51
2.	Motorcycle Girl	Eric Burdon Eric Burdon Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance... , Marcelo Nova Marcelo Nova Marcelo Nova is a Brazilian singer born in the state of Bahia.He began his career in the group Camisa de Vênus in the 1980s and had recorded several hit songs such as "Bete Morreu", "Eu Não Matei Joana D'Arc" and "Silvia"...	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 Johnny Lee Schell Johnny Lee Schell is an American guitarist and songwriter. In the 1970s, he premiered as a prominent member of a Texas-based southern rock band, Baby. Since his professional debut, he has played with dozens of well known recording artists...	5:29
7.	Jazzman	Eric Burdon, Dean Restum	3:47
8.	Black and White World	Eric Burdon, Marcelo Nova	3:28
9.	Heaven Heaven (Talking Heads song) "Heaven" is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads from their 1979 album Fear of Music.- Cover versions :*k.d. lang recorded her version of this song with The Siss Boom Bang for their 2011 album Sing It Loud...	David Byrne David Byrne David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer... , Jerry Harrison Jerry Harrison Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...	4:44
10.	Devil Slide	Eric Burdon, Marcelo Nova	3:35
11.	Broken Records	Eric Burdon, Marcelo Nova	3:25
12.	Can't Kill the Boogieman	Eric Burdon	3:59
13.	My Secret Life	Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...	5:51

Personnel

• Tony Braunagel – percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , drums
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• Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son...
  
   – percussion
• Jon Cleary
  Jon Cleary (musician)
  Jon Cleary is a funk and R&B musician based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is from Cranbrook in Kent, England, and has studied for the past 20 years the "musical culture and life of New Orleans," according to his website...
  
   – piano
  Piano
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• Mike Finnigan
  Mike Finnigan
  Mike Finnigan is an American keyboard player and vocalist, his specialty being the Hammond Organ.-Career:Finnigan has toured and sessioned for the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Sam Moore, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Mason, Buddy Guy, Manhattan Transfer, Taj Mahal, Michael...
  
   – piano, Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
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• Martin Gerschwitz – Hammond organ, electric piano
  Electric piano
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• Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub is an American bass player and session musician. He's played with such artists and bands as Journey, Jackson Browne, Bee Gees, Eric Carmen, Linda Ronstadt, Leo Sayer, Warren Zevon, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, Bonnie Raitt and many others....
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• James "Hutch" Hutchinson
  James Hutchinson (musician)
  James "Hutch" Hutchinson is an American bassist best known for his work with Bonnie Raitt.-Early life:James Hutchinson grew up in Cambridge and Somerville Massachusetts.- Career :...
  
   – bass
• Nick Lane – trombone
  Trombone
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• Darrell Leonard
  Darrell Leonard
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   – trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
  , trombonium
• Reggie McBride – bass
• Ivan Neville
  Ivan Neville
  Ivan Neville is a multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of The Neville Brothers....
  
   – piano, Hammond organ, background vocals, clavinet
  Clavinet
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• Eric Rigler
  Eric Rigler
  Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...
  
   – Uillean pipes, Irish whistle, whistle
• Michito Sánchez – percussion
• Johnny Lee Schell
  Johnny Lee Schell
  Johnny Lee Schell is an American guitarist and songwriter. In the 1970s, he premiered as a prominent member of a Texas-based southern rock band, Baby. Since his professional debut, he has played with dozens of well known recording artists...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , 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
  Red Young
  Red Young is a keyboard, piano, synthesizer and organ player.- Beginnings and early success :Grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He began playing piano at age 3 and did first classical recital at age 10...
  
   – 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