Artist: Joe Cocker Release Date: Oct 1999
Format: CD
Record Label: A&M (USA)
Genre: R&B & Soul
UPC: 07502-13326-2

Track listing
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
9. Hello Little Friend
10. Darling Be Home Soon




Details
Contributing artists: Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, Merry Clayton, Rita Coolidge
Producer: Bill Levenson, Denny Cordell, Leon Russell
Distributor: Universal Distribution
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a


Album notes
Personnel: Joe Cocker (vocals); Joe Cocker; Sherlie Matthews (vocals, background vocals); Alan Spenner (bass instrument); Paul Humphries, Bruce Rowland , Paul Humphrey , Paul Humphreys, Bruce Rowland (drums); Shirley Mathews (background vocals); Leon Russell (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards); Merry Clayton, Patrice Holloway, Rita Coolidge, Bonnie Bramlett (vocals, background vocals); Chris Stainton (guitar, piano, organ, keyboards); Clarence White, Henry McCullough, Sneaky Pete Kleinow (guitar); Milt Holland (percussion).
Audio Remixer: Glyn Johns.
Liner Note Author: J.P Bean.
Photographer: Jim McCrary.
Arrangers: Chris Stainton; Leon Russell; The Grease Band.
Still riding high on the American success of his debut album and show-stopping appearance at the Woodstock festival, Joe Cocker hastily recorded a follow-up with his Grease Band and guest musicians. Remarkably, it sustained the quality of his debut, with Cocker barnstorming his way through Russell's instant classic "Delta Lady," "Hitchcock Railway," and a reworking of songs by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles.
As on WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS, it is the more restrained material that revealed most about Cocker's interpretative talents; sensitive readings of Cohen's "Bird On A Wire" and John Sebastian's "Darlin' Be Home Soon" are particularly impressive. But thanks to the dense, chunky production by Leon Russell, the rockers satisfy as well, making JOE COCKER! one of Cocker's best and a precursor to the popular pub rock of the '70s.


Editorial reviews
Joe Cocker's delightful second album is ample proof that the imagination that transformed a song so fixed in our minds as 'With A Little Help From My Friends' has not run out of things to do, nor fallen into the trap of 'stylization'...
Rolling Stone (02/21/1970)

4 stars out of 5 - ...Just as tasty [as his debut], cementing his US standing....Reappraisal is long overdue. Now remastered, here's the ideal opportunity.
Q (07/01/2000)

4 stars out of 5 -- The set's standouts include a bluesy, raucous cover of The Beatles' 'She Came In Through The Bathroom Window' and a powerful, gospel-infused take on George Harrison's ballad, 'Something'...
Record Collector


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