Trav'lin' Light (Queen Latifah album)

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Trav'lin' Light
Trav'lin' Light cover
Cover album by Queen Latifah
Released September 25, 2007
Genre Jazz, soul, blues, easy listening
Label Verve
Producer Ron Fair, Tommy LiPuma, Marc Shaiman
Professional reviews
Queen Latifah chronology
The Dana Owens Album
(2004)		 Trav'lin' Light
(2007)

Trav'lin' Light is the second all-singing and overall the sixth studio album by American singer Queen Latifah, released on September 25, 2007 (see 2007 in music) in the United States on Verve Records. The album has sold 151,670 copies in the United States.

In 2008, the song "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" won the Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)", presented to its arranger, John Clayton, while Trav'lin' Light was nominated for "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album".

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Poetry Man" (Phoebe Snow) – 4:40
  2. "Georgia Rose" (featuring Stevie Wonder) (Jimmy Flynn, Harry Rosenthal, Alex Sullivan) – 3:43
  3. "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:54
  4. "Don't Cry Baby" (Saul Bernice, James P. Johnson, Stella Unger) – 2:53
  5. "I Love Being Here with You" (Peggy Lee, William Schluger) – 2:52
  6. "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (Mann Curtis, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent) – 2:09
  7. "Trav'lin' Light" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young) – 4:05
  8. "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" (Nina Simone) – 3:06
  9. "I'm Not in Love" (Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman) – 4:47
  10. "What Love Has Joined Together" (Smokey Robinson, Robert Rogers) – 3:40
  11. "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)" (Anita Pointer, June Pointer, Patricia Pointer, Ruth Pointer, David Rubinson) – 5:41
  12. "Gone Away" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, Curtis Mayfield) – 5:50
  13. "I Know Where I've Been" (from Hairspray) (Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman) – 4:13
  14. "Java Jive" (exclusive track available only on copies purchased on QueenLatifah.com)

[edit] Wal-Mart edition

  1. "Every Woman Is a Queen" – 1:53

"Every Woman Is a Queen" can also be heard in her CoverGirl commercials.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
United World Chart 28
U.S. Billboard 200 11
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 6
U.S. Billboard Top Jazz Albums 1
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums 24

[edit] Release history

Region Date Label
United States September 25, 2007 Verve
Canada September 25, 2007 Verve
Australia September 29, 2007 Verve
Japan October 3, 2007 Universal Music Group
United Kingdom November 5, 2007 Verve
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Queen Latifah
Studio albums
All Hail the Queen (1989) • Nature of a Sista (1991) • Black Reign (1993) • Order in the Court (1998) • The Dana Owens Album (2004) • Trav'lin' Light (2007)
Compilation albums
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