Année : 1997 Label : Strange Fruits Records 1. Run Shakers Life 2. With A Little Help From My Friends 3. Majorine 4. Change In Louise 5. Can't Be So Bad 6. Let's Get Stoned 7. That's Your Business 8. Delta Lady 9. Hitchcode Highway 10. Lawdy Miss Clawdy 11. Darling Be Home Soon 12. Hello Little Friend

If anything’ s going to put Joe Cocker up where he belongs, as one of the great vocal stylists of the late 60s, then it’s got to be this impressive set of BBC Radio 1 recordings. A reminder of the embarrassment of riches that remain untouched in the vaults, this Cocker collection cooks up alternate, and somewhat looser-fitting versions of the one-time gas-fitter-turned soulster’s greatest hits - “With A Little Help From My Friends”, “Delta Lady” and (the lesser-known-but-maturing-nicely-with-age) “Marjorine”, plus popular material such as Ashford & Simpson's “Let’s Get Stoned”, Richie Havens’ “Run Shaker Life” and John Sebastian’s “Darlin’ Be Home Soon”. A nostalgic revival of Lloyd Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” was evidence that Cocker’s unique progressive pop was soon to hit rockier straits. Essentially, though, this catches the Cock before his crow got too hoarse.
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