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Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker! Audio CD

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Joe Cocker Band: Joe Cocker
Title: Joe Cocker!
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Release Date: 1999-10-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Dear Landlord 2: Bird on a Wire 3: Lawdy Miss Clawdy 4: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 5: Hitchcock Railway 6: That's Your Business 7: Something 8: Delta Lady - Joe Cocker, Joe Cocker, Milt Holland, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Henry McCullough, Bruce Rowland, Leon Russell, Alan Spenner, Chris Stainton, Clarence White 9: Hello Little Friend 10: Darling Be Home Soon 11: She's Good to Me [*] 12: Let It Be [*]

heroin vietnam
That's why I'm buying it. My heroin addicted uncle from veitnam had this record in his collection, along with Plastic Ono Band,and more. It ain't approved by Disney. yea.


Joe Cocker Rocks
Joe screams his head off like a white Ray Charles on acid. Hot studio team and great song selection make this a good disk. Take a stroll down memory lane and play this loud.


a must own
I think just about everyone would like his debut album. Joe Cocker has a really beautiful voice that's admittedly, not a voice everyone can get into. "Hitchcock Railway" is a good-time bluesy song with nice piano bits and female vocals backing up the main vocal melody. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is another really nice song. Not as good as the Beatles song, though. "Delta Lady" is probably the highlight. Beautiful song. Great album overall.


Rowdy but sincere, with some killer tunes
5 or so). Joe's second album, Joe Cocker!, is a pretty solid work, and just barely escapes a 5 star rating (it gets like a 4. Cocker's singing is the main attraction of course, along with his raucous gospel/R&B sensibilities. These are used to great effect all throughout, on both his original material and the covers. To begin with, Cocker has always been the master of cover songs, and there are some gems on this album. The best is George Harrison's Something, and he wisely capitalizes on the great chorus to make this a truly great track. His rendition of John Sebastian's Darling Be Home Soon is also quite nice (great organ solo). The biggest highlights of all for me are Hitchcock Railway and Delta Lady. Hitchcock Railway is a seriously awesome and very underrated tune, and I would probably donate my organs if it meant I could own the piano they recorded it on. Leon Russell's Delta Lady is a little more well known, and is probably the best song on the album. It combines several musical styles (R&B, gospel, classical, and some rock) to create one of the most satisfying songs he's ever recorded. I just wish it was a bit longer, since the repeating chorus at the end is so cool. There are some songs that aren't as good as the ones I've mentioned, but the good songs are more than good enough to make this worth the price. There's even a SUPER mellow version of The Beatles' Let It Be that was previously unreleased. Anyway, this album's a good time, and is certainly essential for Cocker fans. .


Uneven
His studio work. There's no question that Joe Cocker will be remembered for his live show. . . well, that's another story. I mean, two of the three best cuts (Delta Lady and She Came In Through the Bathroom Window) pale in comparison to the versions on the Mad Dogs And Englishmen album (one of those albums you simply have to buy). The same can be said with Bird on the Wire, good here but much better on Mad Dogs. However, his reading of Dylan's Dear Landlord, as a piano-driven blues number, blows the dull original out of the water. And Hitchcock Railway is good, too. Come to think of it, so is the second of three Beatles covers, Let It Be, though it's a tad too long
My problem lies in the rest of the disc. Something, one of The Beatles' finest moments, doesn't work and seems like an excuse to cash in on the track, which was a huge hit. And I'm sorry, but the flute on Hello Little Friend does not work. There are a couple of other cuts that I'm not too crazy over either. All in all, you're best sticking with Mad Dogs and Englishmen and a compilation.
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