Songs To Save A Life In Aid Of Samaritans

there's a great variety on this album, I'm really keen on the Sophie E-B track, and the newer acts Queen Orlenes and Katie Kim as well. fantastic cause too.

Beautiful and sometimes unusual cover versions of some well-known songs. And it's for a great cause. Well worth a listen. Would make a great Christmas present.

Opening with Bowie song Changes in a version by James Morrison that I feel the Main Man himself would approve, this album has enough variety to hold your attention through all 11 tracks. Changes is definitely one of my favourites, and probably the other real highlight for me is The Overtones' version of the Cee Lo Green hit Forget You - this really does for me what a cover version should do - that is to be distinctly different and at least as good or (as in this case in my opinion) better than the version we all know.

Not that other covers on this album are mere karaoke or sing by numbers knock offs. KT Tunstall's Don't You Forget About Me is KT Tunstall and absolutely not Simple Minds - another track you could get to love alongside the original. Heart Full of Soul, recorded by Graham Gouldman who wrote it for the Yardbirds in the mid 60s, probably a decade before his 10cc hit-making heyday is perhaps the cover closest in feel to its original, although there's no Jeff Beck and its sound is more contemporary. The Carole King penned song You've Got a Friend gets a gently soulful interpretation by James Jay Picton, and Ed Harcourt's Be not So Fearful is very emotive.

Its hard to find a track to dislike, and its fair to say it sounds as if the artists involved in this project were all very much into the tracks they recorded. Add the fact that this album is raising money for a service run by volunteers and open to anyone, any-time, whatever problems they're going through and it becomes an irresistible purchase. Samaritans say they give emotional support - this album gives you an emotional tonic!

A really good album for a great cause. Lean on me has always been one of my favourites and I really liked the version on this album, but You've got a Friend was excellent - you've got to hear it!

A brilliant album for an amazing cause, worth buying for the Ed Harcourt track alone. Buy the album and spread the word!

This album has a variety of tracks to uplift and inspire, the previews don't do justice to the tracks that build as they go; Lucie Silvas' moving take on Lean on Me, Ed Harcourt's lovely version of Be Not So Nervous (with backing vocals by Katie Kim, whose own track is a sweet delight), but especially James Jay Picton's version of You've Got A Friend - a soulful and sublime voice which will resonate with anyone who shares the sentiment. Samaritans could adopt this as a theme tune. They're there, 24/7, for anyone and everyone. They've helped me hugely over the years, so show some soul and support this invaluable voluntary organisation - you'll get great tunes and help people in distress.

I think this album is fab, some great classics and for a great cause-you can't go wrong! Especially like the cover of Changes.

This album is amazing, really catchy and actually very uplifting. Realy good mixture of known and unknown artists doing unexpected things! And for such a good cause, too.