COCKER, JOE

Personnel: Joe Cocker, Phoebe Snow, Renee Geyer (vocals); Dan Hartman (guitar, keyboards, percussion, tambourine, background vocals); Phil Grande (guitar); Ric Cunningham (alto saxophone); Lawrence Feldman (tenor saxophone); Clarence Clemons (saxophone); Jeff Levine (piano, organ, keyboards); Greg Johnson (piano, organ); Robby Kilgore (keyboards); T.M. Stevens (bass); David Beal (drums); Sammy Figueroa (percussion); Tawatha Agee, Vaneese Thomas, Benny Diggs, B.J. Nelson, Jayne Ann Lang, Maxine Green, Janice Singleton (background vocals). The Uptown Horns: Arno Hecht, Crispin Cioe, Robert Funk, "Hollywood" Paul Litteral (horns). Recorded at The House Of Music, West Orange, New Jersey. This wasn't exactly a comeback album, but it did boost Joe Cocker's veteran blues profile quite a bit. The title song, which gave Cocker the excuse to do his best Ray Charles imitation, was a hit (no doubt due, in part, to Clarence Clemmon's supporting saxophone work), and "A Woman Loves a Man" was featured prominently on the soundtrack to Kevin Costner's baseball flick BULL DURHAM. Much of the rest of the album is very slick and very '80s--the backing track for "Trust in Me" would have been right at home on a John Waite album--but the songs are generally tuneful and Cocker sings the pants off of all of them, in particular the attractively Stones/Faces derived "Satisfied."

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