Joe Cocker Sheffield Steel (flac)

One off joe cocker best albums ....1982 Island Records
Track listing

"Look What You've Done" (Leo Nocentelli)
"Shocked" (Ira, Ingber, Greg Sutton)
"Sweet Little Woman" (Andy Fraser)
"Seven Days" (Bob Dylan)
"Marie" (Randy Newman)
"Ruby Lee" (Bill Withers, Melvin Dunlap)
"Many Rivers to Cross" (Jimmy Cliff)
"So Good, So Right" (Brenda Russell)
"Talking Back to the Night" (Steve Winwood, Will Jennings)
"Just Like Always" (Jimmy Webb)
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Joe Cocker - lead vocals
Wally Badarou - keyboards
Robert Palmer - vocals
Jimmy Cliff - vocals
Adrian Belew - guitar
Barry Reynolds - guitar, vocals
Mikey Chung - guitar
Sly Dunbar - drums
Robbie Shakespeare - bass
Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - percussion
Anton Corbijn - photography
Paul Wexler - Assistant Producer


Cocker, clearly at ease in these balmier surroundings, lets his voice roll along as naturally as a sailboat in a Jamaican breeze. This is not the jolting, brassy R&B of yesteryear; rather, this is rocking-chair rockin' – Cocker and band let these songs get there when they get there, if you know what I mean. Sheffield Steel has plenty of fine moments: Cocker does Bob Dylan proud on the salty funk of "Seven Days" and covers a new Steve Winwood-Will Jennings composition, "Talking Back to the Night," whose muted urgency is the closest this set comes to out-and-out rock. In Cocker's hands, the reggae classic "Many Rivers to Cross" becomes movingly autobiographical. Not unexpectedly, Randy Newman ("Marie") and Jimmy Webb ("Just like Always") contribute the side-closers, two of the kind of romantic big ballads that Cocker takes to so we ripped with avs from my personal collection enjoy and ...seed