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Music World/Columbia Records Releases Cadillac Records Soundtrack

Music World/Columbia Records proudly announces the release of Cadillac Records – Music From The Motion Picture available everywhere Tuesday, December 2.

The keenly-awaited album of classic rhythm & blues covers and new soul sounds performed by Beyoncé, Solange, Jeffrey Wright, Raphael Saadiq, Mos Def and others arrives three days in advance of the nationwide opening of “Cadillac Records,” the year’s most eagerly-anticipated musical drama, on Friday, December 5.

Cadillac Records – Music From The Motion Picture is available in both a standard and a deluxe two-disk edition. Please see full track listing following.

Written and directed by Darnell Martin, “Cadillac Records” chronicles the history of Chess Records, the pre-eminent blues label of the 1950s and 1960s co-founded by Leonard Chess (played by Adrien Brody) and his brother Phil (Shiloh Fernandez). A powerful saga of sex, violence, race and rock & roll set in 1950s Chicago, “Cadillac Records” follows the turbulent lives of the American musical legends who recorded for Chess: Etta James (played by Beyoncé Knowles), Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Howlin’ Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and more. The film tracks the story of Chess Records, from the time the Chess brothers sold the label’s first recordings from the trunk of their Cadillac through the company’s emergence as the greatest repository of black American music — blues, gospel, and the electric blues that became rock & roll — in the mid-20th century.

“Cadillac Records” has been produced by Andrew Lack and Sofia Sondervan for Sony BMG Film and Executive Produced by Beyoncé Knowles.

Cadillac Records – Music From The Motion Picture is produced by multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/drummer Steve Jordan (Eric Clapton, John Mayer Trio, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards) and Executive Produced by Mathew Knowles for Music World Entertainment, Inc. Marshall Chess, the son and nephew of the original Chess Records founders, served as Executive Music Producer for the soundtrack.

Cadillac Records – Music From The Motion Picture premieres five new recordings by Beyoncé including her performance of Etta James’ “At Last,” the album’s first single.

Cadillac Records – Music From The Motion Picture – tracklisting

Standard Edition
1. I’m A Man (Jeffrey Wright)
2. At Last (Beyoncé)
3. No Particular Place To Go (Mos Def)
4. I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Jeffrey Wright)
5. Once In A Lifetime (Beyoncé)
6. Let’s Take A Walk (Raphael Saadiq)
7. 6 O’Clock Blues (Solange)
8. Nadine (Mos Def)
9. The Sound (Mary Mary)
10. Last Night (Little Walter)
11. I’d Rather Go Blind (Beyoncé)
12. My Babe (Columbus Short)
13. Bridging The Gap (Nas featuring Olu Dara)

Deluxe Edition
Disc One
1. I’m A Man (Jeffrey Wright)
2. At Last (Beyoncé)
3. No Particular Place To Go (Mos Def)
4. I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Jeffrey Wright)
5. Once In A Lifetime (Beyoncé)
6. Let’s Take A Walk (Raphael Saadiq)
7. 6 O’Clock Blues (Solange)
8. Nadine (Mos Def)
9. The Sound (Mary Mary)
10. Last Night (Little Walter)
11. I’d Rather Go Blind (Beyoncé)
12. My Babe (Columbus Short)
13. Bridging The Gap (Nas featuring Olu Dara)

Disc Two
1. Maybelline (Mos Def)
2. Forty Days and Forty Nights (Buddy guy)
3. Trust In Me (Beyoncé)
4. Juke (Soul 7 featuring Kim Wilson)
5. Smokestack Lightnin’ (Eamonn Walker)
6. Promised Land (Mos Def)
7. All I Could Do Was Cry (Beyoncé)
8. My Babe (Elvis Presley)
9. Come On (Mos Def)
10. Country Blues (Jeffrey Wright & Bill Sims JR.)
11. Evolution Of A Man ( Q-Tip ft. Al Kapone)
12. Radio Station ( Terence Blanchard)




Attorney Jalene Mack Tackles Big Screen


Houston, TX – After years of impressing the courtroom, prominent Houston attorney Jalene Mack will now command an audience of millions when she makes her big screen debut in the upcoming feature, “Hurricane Season” slated for release in 2009. Starring Forest Whitaker, Isaiah Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Bow Wow, Courtney B. Vance and Lil’ Wayne, “Hurricane Season” is a true life drama.

Filmed in Mack’s original hometown of New Orleans, the movie is based on the story of Al Collins, basketball coach for John Ehret High School in Marrero, LA, who led his Patriots to the state championship a year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the school and displaced many of its students. Mack is cast in the role of Andrea Wall, mother of Christian (played by Eric D. Hill Jr.) one of the principal basketball players.

The busy attorney turned actress is currently back in Houston for martial arts training for her next film, “Elbows & Vogues” which recently just started production, starring Reagan Gomez and Gary Sturgis.