Joe Cocker Hymn For My Soul
British blues singer Joe Cocker just toured through Texas this past Sunday, performing a real hit parade of classics; “Feelin’ Alright, Up Where We Belong, Shelter Me, Come Together, You Can Leave Your Hat On,” and “You Are So Beautiful.”
Malcolm Mayhew posted a great review of the show in the local newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he said “The veteran rock and soul singer’s set was often physically and emotionally moving. Joe Cocker performed some of his most enduring hits over the course of the evening.
Amazing fact: Joe Cocker is a real sixties survivor. Remember his stirring performance at the Woodstock Music Festival? That forty year anniversary is coming up in August. I recall his first album with the track “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window,” one of my favorites. I was wowed by the soulful way he belted out Beatles tunes like that and “With A Little Help From My Friends.”
Joe Cocker, who is now 65, is promoting his latest album, a collection of songs by hit artists like The Beatles and Bob Dylan. The album, Hymn For My Soul, is getting great reviews since it came out last month. No wonder, considering the stellar cast of fellow performers on the new album; drummers Jim Keltner and James Gadson, Benmont Tench and Dave Palmer on keyboards, Bob Babbitt on bass, Mike Finnigan on Hammond organ, and on backing vocals Merry Clayton, who was once one of Ray Charles’s Raelettes. She also sang on the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter.”
Read amazon.com’s product description and you’ll see what I mean: Nearly four decades after he thrilled the throngs at Woodstock, Joe Cocker remains one of rock’s pre-eminent survivors, recording and touring prolifically and maintaining a loyal worldwide fan base.
On Hymn For My Soul “The Sheffield Soul Shouter” delivers a stellar album that includes songs by Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, the Meters, John Fogerty, Percy Mayfield and more. The album was produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne), the son of Glyn Johns, who was the engineer on many of Cocker’s early albums.
Fantasy has the exclusive U.S. release of this album, which contains the bonus track “Come Together,” from the Across The Universe soundtrack.
Source: http://astore.amazon.com/musicramble-20/detail/B00160ANPU
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Written by: Mike Withrow
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