You Won’t Believe This Velvet Dress - Listen Now!

16 Dec 2002
Bono has collaborated with British bluesman Jools Holland on a completely reinvented version of If You Wear That Velvet Dress.

The track, recorded in London earlier this year, features on Holland's latest album of collaborations, Small World Big Band Volume Two: More Friends which is just released. And at some eight minutes long, with Holland on piano and Bono in the smokiest of jazz club modes, it is hard to imagine how the original song became the new one.

Hear for yourself.

Meanwhile, here's the complete track-listing of Small World Big Band Volume Two: More Friends

1. Sam Moore and Sam Brown - Together We Are Strong
2. Norah Jones - In The Dark
3. Edwin Starr - Snowflake Boogie
4. Bryan Ferry - The Only Face
5. Dionne Warwick - What Goes Around
6. Tom Jones - Don't You Kiss My Cheek
7. Chrissie Hynde - Out Of This World
8. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Rock Me In The Cradle Of Your Love
9. Stereophonics - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
10. Huey (Fun Lovin' Criminals) - Fly Me To The Moon
11. Badly Drawn Boy - The Can Is Open
12. Ray Davies - Yours Sincerely, Confused Of N10
13. Jools Holland/Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - Tuxedo Junction
14. Robert Plant - Let The Boogie Woogie Roll
15. Jeff Beck - Drown In My Own Tears (Instrumental)
16. Ruby Turner - Count Me In
17. Marianne Faithfull - You Got To Serve Somebody
18. Jools Holland/Chris Barber/Guy Barker - Anglegrinder Blues
19. Beverley Knight - Change Is Gonna Come
20. George Benson - Teardrops From My Eyes
21. Jimmy Cliff - Dreams
22. Bono - If You Wear That Velvet Dress

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