New R&B/Soul Albums: Nov. 2011

Mary J. Blige's sequel to her groundbreaking 1994 album, My Life, is due out Nov. 21 via Geffen Records.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Feel Inside (feat. Nas)
3. Midnight Drive (feat. Brook Lynn)
4. Next Level (feat. Busta Rhymes)
5. Ain't Nobody
6. 25/8
7. Don't Mind
8. No Condition
9. Mr. Wrong (feat. Drake)
10. Why (feat. Rick Ross)
11. Love a Woman (feat. Beyonce)
12. Irreversible
13. Empty Prayers
14. Need Someone to Love You
15. The Living Proof (from the movie The Help)

Tracklisting:

1. You Da One
2. Where Have You Been
3. We Found Love
4. Talk That Talk
5. Cockiness (Love It)
6. Birthday Cake
7. We All Want Love
8. Drunk on Love
9. Roc Me Out
10. Watch n' Learn
11. Farewell

Actor-model-sex symbol Tyrese Gibson makes his return to singing with the release of his fifth studio album on Nov. 1.

Tracklisting:

1. I'm Home (feat. Jay Rock)
2. I Gotta Chick (feat. R. Kelly & Rick Ross)
3. Stay
4. Best of Me
5. Nothing On You
6. One Night
7. It's All On Me
8. Takeover
9. Too Easy
10. I Miss That Girl
11. Interlude
12. Make Love
13. Angel (feat. Candace)
14. Walk ... a Poem for My Fans

Eric Roberson, aka Erro, releases his latest Nov. 8 via eOne Music.

Tracklisting:

1. Mister Nice Guy
2. Strangers
3. Summertime Anthem (feat. Chubb Rock)
4. Come With Me (feat. The Ones "Yaw and Khari Lemuel")
5. Picture Perfect feat. Phonte
6. Fall
7. Shake Her Hand
8. The Magician
9. Love's Withdrawal (feat. Omari Hardwick)
10. How Would I Feel? (feat. Jean Baylor)
11. Talking Reckless
12. At the Same Time
13. Male Ego (feat. Hezekiah)
14. Try Love
15. All for Me

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Fresh on the heels of the two free mixtapes he dropped at the start of November, Trey Songz will release a five-song EP on his birthday, Nov. 28, via Atlantic Records.

Tracklisting:

1. Top of the World
2. What I Be On (feat. Fabolous)
3. I Do
4. Inside (Pt. 1)
5. Sex Ain't Better Than Love

The latest from avant garde singer-songwriter-musician Meshell Ndegeocello is due out Nov. 8 via the Naive label.

Tracklisting:

1. Weather
2. Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
3. Feeling for the Wall
4. Chance
5. Oysters
6. Rapid Fire
7. Chelsea Hotel
8. Dirty World
9. A Bitter Mule
10. Crazy and Wild
11. Petite Mort
12. Dead End
13. Don't Take My Kindness for Weakness

The legendary Mr. Sweat drops his latest album Nov. 8 via E1 Music.

Tracklisting:

1. Candy Store
2. Knew It All Along (feat. Johnny Gill & Gerald Levert)
3. High As the Sun
4. Lady De Jour
5. Make You Say Ooh
6. To the Middle (feat. T-Pain)
7. Ring Size
8. 'Til the Morning
9. Open Invitation
10. One On One
11. My Valentine (feat. Coko of SWV)
12. Getaway

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This deep-fried Soul band's latest was originally due out in October, but has been pushed back to Nov. 8.

Tracklisting:

1. Something's Got To Give
2. Concrete Blues
3. Behind These Bars
4. Trouble Man
5. How Could You Walk Away
6. One Reason To Stay
7. Until You Get Enough Of Me
8. I Gotta Have It
9. Lonely Room
10. Don't Wait
11. Everybody Knows [bonus track]
12. Let's Straighten It Out [bonus track]
13. I Don't Want To Know [bonus track]

The latest from this gritty R&B/Hip-hop singer is due out Nov. 8 via Bronx Bridge Entertainment.

Tracklisting:

1. TMS (Intro)
2. TMS
3. This Love
4. Take Me Away
5. Speak Up
6. Love Song
7. I Love Me
8. Movie
9. Higher
10. Rock with Me
11. Perfect Man
12. On the Floor

Betty Wright, who's best known for the '70s Soul songs "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight is the Night," releases her first album of new music in 10 years on Nov. 15. The backing band and producer on all tracks is the legendary Roots crew.

Tracklisting:

1. Old Songs
2. Real Woman (feat. Snoop Dogg)
3. In the Middle of the Game (Don't Change the Play)
4. Surrender
5. Grapes on a Vine (feat. Lil Wayne)
6. Look Around (Be a Man)
7. Tonight Again
8. Whisper in the Wind (feat. Joss Stone)
9. Hollywould
10. Baby Come Back (feat. Lenny Williams)
11. So Long, So Wrong
12. You and Me, Leroy
13. The One
14. Go! (live)

Maysa, who first broke onto the scene as one of the vocalists for Jazz-R&B group Incognito, releases her ninth solo album Nov. 8 via the Shanachie label.

Tracklisting:

1. Get Wit Me
2. Come Dance With Me
3. Day N Night
4. Flower Girl (feat. Dwele)
5. Have Sweet Dreams
6. Motions of Love
7. You Won't Find Your Way
8. When It's Over
9. Love Sweet Love (LSL)
10. Hold On
11. I Try
12. When It's Over (reprise)
13. Your Name's Not On the List
14. Special Place

Etta James, who has suffered from serious health issues in recent years, says this will be her last album before retiring. It features her remakes of pop, rock and Soul classics, and comes out Nov. 8.

Tracklisting:

1. Groove Me
2. Champagne & Wine
3. Dreamer
4. Welcome to the Jungle
5. Misty Blue
6. Boondocks
7. Cigarettes & Coffee
8. In the Evening
9. Too Tired
10. That's the Chance You Take
11. Let Me Down Easy