Essential Ballads is a compilation album by Jeff Scott Soto. It consists of ballads from Soto's solo albums. A cover of "Send Her My Love" by Journey was recorded only for this CD.

Essential Ballads
Compilation album by
Released23 May 2006
GenreRock
Length70:55
LabelFrontiers Records
ProducerJeff Scott Soto, Richard Mace
Jeff Scott Soto chronology
Lost in the Translation
(2004)
Essential Ballads
(2006)
Beautiful Mess
(2009)

The cd also contains 3 bonus tracks*

Track listing edit

  1. "If This Is the End" - 4:41
  2. "As I Do 2 U" - 4:14
  3. "Holding On" - 5:24
  4. "Send Her My Love" - 4:23
  5. "Lonely Shade of Blue" - 5:26
  6. "This Ain't the Love" - 5:17
  7. "Dont' Wanna Say Goodbye" - 4:21
  8. "4U" - 4:13
  9. "Still Be Loving U" - 3:38
  10. "Till the End of Time" - 5:16
  11. "Sacred Eyes" - 3:23
  12. "By Your Side" - 4:25
  13. "Beginning 2 End" - 5:28
  14. "Through It All"* - 3:23
  15. "Last Mistake"* - 4:11
  16. "Another Try"* - 3:12

Personnel edit

  • Jeff Scott Soto - Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Drum Loop
  • Executive Producer: Richard Mace for JSS Promotions Ltd
  • George Bernhardt Bass, Guitar, Drum Programming
  • Jamie Borger - Drums, Musician
  • Jamie Brown - Musician
  • Göran Elmquist - Guitar, Keyboards, Programming
  • Joey Fingers - Percussion
  • Neil Goldberg - Guitar
  • Alex Llorens - Guitar
  • Marcus Nand - Guitar
  • Alex Papa - Drums
  • Ricky Phillips - Bass, Guitar, Background Vocals
  • Gary Schutt - Bass Guitar
  • Howie Simon - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Soloist
  • Glen Sobel Drums, Musician
  • Jody Whitesides Musician, Guitar (12 String Acoustic)
  • Peter de Wint Engineer