2 Almost a Year Since
3 Everything Changed Nothing
4 Everyday People
5 Saw Myself Today
6 The Second Date
7 Theatre
8 Tell the Truth
9 The Blooming
10 Birds & Bees
11 Juba May
12 Warmer In the Day
13 The Richers
14 This Beat Is for Finale
15 I’m From PG
16 In Your Eyes
17 Silgo Creek
18 Sand to the Beach
19 When Everything Changed
20 Chocolate City Dreaming
21 Viva Brasil
22 That Day
23 Ci’iy Life
24 Frostbit
25 Winds from the North
26 Black Broadway
27 Brainwash
28 Que With No Coast
29 60901
30 All Because She’s Gone
31 It’s Over
32 You Don’t Close Your

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Self Made, Vol. 1 features the entire roster including R&B crooner Teedra Moses and Triple C’s Torch and Gunplay with collaborations from Curren$y, Jadakiss, Jeremih, J. Cole, CyHi Da Prynce, and French Montana.

Stream and listen to the new album (courtesy of Complex), then pre-order a copy before it hits stores and online outlets on May 23.

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Fantastic. Stones Throw also provided a little breakdown of each cover as well, so….enjoy. Tracklisting (with breakdowns) and download link after the jump.

1. Work To Do
This one features my live band, The County: Quentin Joseph on drums, Topher Mohr on guitar, Quincy McCrary on piano, and Joe Abrams on bass. It was recorded live in a radio station studio somewhere during our Winter 2010 US tour. The tapes recently surfaced, but nobody can remember exactly where we were. The song is originally by The Isley Brothers, and that’s the only version I was familiar with until we started playing it in our live shows and people would come up to us and say “hey, loved your cover of Average White Band!”.

2. Don’t Turn The Lights On
My favorite track from Chromeo’s latest LP. On the surface it’s an electro-funk, dance floor filler, but underneath is a brilliant love ballad with lyrics that reminded me of something from Tyrone Davis. Dave1 (of Chromeo) told me the song is about a guy who falls in love with a ghost, so I wanted my version to have an eerie, ghostly feel to it. Quincy McCrary played the creepy piano solo at the end.

3. You’ve Got The Makings Of A Lover
Textbook Northern Soul from a little known Dallas, Texas group called The Festivals. I was digging for records in NY with my homey DJ Kurse, and the shopkeeper played the 45 in the store. Both of us immediately ran up to the counter and said “yo! what is THAT?!”. The original version was recorded in the late 60s, and the mix isn’t very good. I wanted a version that I could bump. Quentin Joseph played the drums and we recorded them at Sam Beaubien’s studio in Detroit. That’s Sam playing the trumpet as well.

4. Fantasy Girl
This song was written and composed by an amazing man from Pasadena named Steve Salazar. He was born with a heart condition and passed away at the young age of 27. Before he died he recorded one incredible album of demos in the mid-70s with a band called Shorty’s Portion. Peanut Butter Wolf found a copy of the album and I loved it so much that he gave it to me (thanks Wolf!). The vinyl had a handwritten note tucked in the sleeve that was addressed to anyone who could help the band with management, a record deal, radio airplay, etc. I’d estimate there were less than 300 copies pressed. That’s my Dad playing pedal steel guitar and Topher Mohr shredding the guitar solo on my version.

5. Little Person
Jon Brion is not from this planet. He penned this song for the soundtrack to Charlie Kaufman’s film “Synecdoche, NY”. I didn’t get the film at all, but I really got the soundtrack. The original has only female vocal and piano, but I always heard a larger arrangement. Hubert Alexander played some of the piano and I did everything else.

6. Mr. Blue Sky
This one also features my band, The County, and was recorded live, in one take, in a tiny makeshift tent, at a festival in Dour, Belgium. Here’s the video from that recording session…