''Keep Reachin' Up'' is a

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recording collaboration

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& The Soul Investigators, released on Lifesaver , Timmion Records in 2005. The music is composed and performed by Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators and the record is produced by Didier Selin. Timmion Records is located in

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, Finland. The title track was chosen as one of many songs on US President

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's re-election

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playlist in February 2012.

Track listing

#"Feeling Free" – 3:37 #"If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is)" – 3:28 #"Keep Reachin' Up" – 3:24 #"Blues Downtown" – 5:13 #"My Four Leaf Clover" – 2:53 #"A Perfect Kind of Love" – 4:01 #"Invisible Man" – 2:59 #"Holdin' On" – 3:37 #"No One's Gonna Love You" – 6:06 #"Soul Investigators Theme" (instrumental) – 2:42 #"Outro" (bonus track) – 1:40

Personnel

* Svante Forsbäck – mastering * Maurice Fulton – composer * Erno Haukkala – trombone, horn arrangements * Sami Kantelinen – bass guitar, composer * Jay Kortehisto – trombone, soloist *

Pekka Kuusisto Pekka Kuusisto (born 7 October 1976) is a Finnish musician. Biography Kuusisto comes from a musical lineage. His grandfather was the composer and organist Taneli Kuusisto, his father Ilkka Kuusisto, who had many functions in Finnish musical l ...

– violin, composer * Antti Lauronen – baritone saxophone, horn arrangements * Antti Määttänen – Hammond organ, piano, composer * Jukka Sarapää – drums, composer * Eero Savela – trumpet, horn arrangements * Didier Selin – tambourine, bass guitar, guitar, composer, producer * The Soul Investigators – arrangements, composition, direction *

Jimi Tenor Jimi Tenor (born Lassi O. T. Lehto, 1965) is a Finnish composer and a musician. His artist name is a combination of an instrument and the first name comes from Lassi's childhood. When he was little next door neighbour girls used to call him Jimi ...

– flute, tenor saxophone, backing vocals, composer, horn arrangements * Pete Toikkanen – guitar, bass guitar, composer * Lasse Tolvanen – tenor saxophone, horn arrangements *

– lead & backing vocals, lyricist, composer

References

External links

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Timmion Records
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