Tracks of My Years

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"Tracks of My Years" is also the title of a feature on Ken Bruce's BBC Radio 2 show.

Tracks of My Years
Bryan Adams - Tracks of My Years.jpg
Studio album by Bryan Adams
Released September 30, 2014 (2014-09-30)
Recorded 2014
Genre Rock
Length 33:00
Label Polydor
Producer David Foster, Bryan Adams, Bob Rock
Bryan Adams chronology
11
(2008)112008		 Tracks of My Years
(2014)		 Get Up
(2015)Get Up2015
Singles from Tracks of My Years
  1. "She Knows Me"
    Released: August 27, 2014

Tracks of My Years is the twelfth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. The album was released on September 30, 2014 by Polydor Records. It is an eclectic mix of songs reflective of the time when rock was played alongside pop, country and R&B, and follows Adams’ acoustic album, 2010's Bare Bones, a release that resulted in sold out shows across Europe, North America, Australia and South Africa.

The track list features 10 covers, including "Lay Lady Lay" (Bob Dylan), "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Ray Charles) and "Any Time at All" (The Beatles). The album also includes "She Knows Me", an original song written by Adams and Jim Vallance, which was released as the album's first and only single.

Background

Adams said of Tracks of My Years: "Making the selection of the songs for the album took a long time. We recorded all kinds of songs until the songs sort of presented themselves, or sounded different enough from the originals. We did about three months of recording, spread out over the course of two years."[1]

The album was mainly produced by David Foster and Bryan Adams. In 2016, Adams said he was "reluctant" to record a covers album, but his label Polydor wanted him to do it. Adams said, "I got into it in the end. And David is a brilliant producer — nothing against him. It just wasn’t something I really wanted to do." Adams simultaneously worked with producer Jeff Lynne on his thirteenth studio album, Get Up, which was released in 2015. Adams said of the process: "I would literally leave one studio where I was recording the covers with David Foster, and go to another studio where I was working on the new album with Jeff. That gave me the impetus to get through the Foster record, because I didn’t enjoy that at all."[2]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week [3] and at number 22 in Italy.[4] In the US, the album debuted at number 89 on the Billboard 200, selling 4,000 copies in its first week.[5] The album has sold 14,000 copies in the US as of September 2015.[6]

Track listing

Standard edition
No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Any Time at All"   Lennon-McCartney David Foster, Bryan Adams 2:34
2. "She Knows Me"   Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance Foster, Adams 3:37
3. "I Can't Stop Loving You"   Don Gibson Foster, Adams 3:39
4. "Kiss and Say Goodbye"   Winfred Lovett Bob Rock, Adams 3:10
5. "Lay Lady Lay"   Bob Dylan Foster, Adams 3:34
6. "Rock and Roll Music"   Chuck Berry Rock, Adams 2:34
7. "Down on the Corner"   John Fogerty Foster, Adams 2:39
8. "Never My Love"   Don Addrisi, Dick Addrisi Foster, Adams 3:17
9. "Sunny"   Bobby Hebb Foster, Adams 3:31
10. "The Tracks of My Tears"   Robinson, Moore, Tarplin Foster, Adams 2:56
11. "God Only Knows"   Brian Wilson, Tony Asher Foster, Adams 3:30
Deluxe edition (bonus tracks)
No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
12. "You've Been a Friend to Me"   Adams, Gretchen Peters Foster, Adams 2:50
13. "Help Me Make It Through the Night"   Kris Kristofferson Foster, Adams 2:40
14. "C'mon Everybody"   Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart Foster, Adams 2:50
15. "Many Rivers to Cross"   Jimmy Cliff Foster, Adams 4:09
16. "You Shook Me"   Willie Dixon, J.B. Lenoir Foster, Adams 3:47
Japanese edition (bonus track)
No. Title Writer(s) Length
17. "Let It Be Me"     3:20

Charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[7] 61
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[8] 5
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[9] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[10] 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11] 38
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12] 34
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[13] 41
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[14] 5
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[15] 10
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[16] 6
UK Albums (OCC)[17] 11

References

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  8. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years" (in German). Hung Medien.
  9. ↑ "Illegal name entered Bryan Adams/Bryan+Adams/chart?f=309 Bryan Adams – Chart history" Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for Bryan Adams.
  10. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years". Hung Medien.
  11. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  12. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years" (in French). Hung Medien.
  13. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  14. ↑ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH.
  15. ↑ "Portuguesecharts.com – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years". Hung Medien.
  16. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years". Hung Medien.
  17. ↑ "Bryan Adams | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart
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