Trav'lin' Light (Queen Latifah album)

Following The Dana Owens Album released in 2004, this is Latifah's second singing album containing cover versions of jazz standards.[5] The album spent three weeks atop the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[6]

The album cut "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s), which was presented to its arranger, John Clayton. Trav'lin' Light was also nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.[7][8]

The album's first song and subsequently first single, "Poetry Man" is a cover of Phoebe Snow's song of the same name.

1. "Poetry Man" (Phoebe Snow) – 4:40
2. "Georgia Rose" featuring Stevie Wonder (Jimmy Flynn, Harry Rosenthal, Alex Sullivan) – 3:43
3. "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:54
4. "Don't Cry Baby" (Saul Bernice, James P. Johnson, Stella Unger) – 2:53
5. "I Love Being Here with You" (Peggy Lee, William Schluger) – 2:52
6. "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (Mann Curtis, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent) – 2:09
7. "Trav'lin' Light" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young) – 4:05
8. "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" (Nina Simone) – 3:06
9. "I'm Not in Love" (Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman) – 4:47
10. "What Love Has Joined Together" (Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers) – 3:40
11. "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)" (Anita Pointer, June Pointer, Patricia Pointer, Ruth Pointer, David Rubinson) – 5:41
12. "Gone Away" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, Curtis Mayfield) – 5:50
13. "I Know Where I've Been" (from Hairspray) (Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman) – 4:13
14. "Java Jive" (exclusive track available only on copies purchased on QueenLatifah.com)

Wal-Mart edition

14. "Every Woman Is a Queen" – 1:53

"Every Woman Is a Queen" can also be heard in her CoverGirl commercials.