Performer: | Joe Cocker |
Title: | Hard Knocks |
Country: | Europe |
Released: | 2010 |
Style: | Classic Rock |
Category: | Rock |
Rating: | 4.7 ✦ |
Other format: | AC3 VOX AIFF ADX AU VQF WAV |
Hard Knocks is the twenty-first and penultimate studio album by Joe Cocker, released on 1 October 2010 by Columbia Records in Europe. It features nine new songs produced by Matt Serletic plus Cocker's version of the Dixie Chicks number "I Hope", which was produced by Tony Brown. Apart from a regular CD release, the album was also released on vinyl. The album reached number 1 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart and number 2 on the same magazine's European Albums chart.
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It's bright and bold, as hard and shiny as stainless steel, but there isn't a meanness to it: it's professional to its core, each note polished til it gleams, not one song outside of Cocker's wheelhouse. He pours his passion in, which may not be enough to liven up this buttoned-down upper-crust soul, but it is enough to keep things pleasant.
Band Name Joe Cocker. Album Name Hard Knocks (CD). Labels Columbia Records. Music StyleBlues Rock. Members owning this album5. 2. Get On. 3. Unforgiven.
Hard Knocks Joe Cocker. Though he was often best known for his interpretation of songs by others, Cocker wrote nearly this entire album. The main exception is his rendition of The Dixie Chicks' "I Hope"; it was produced by Nashville stalwart Tony Brown, who also produced the Chicks' version. With a true R&B Hammond organ and a gospel choir backing him, Cocker sings from the pocket, laidback in the groove but still firmly in control. So It Goes" further captures the soul man on a husky soul ballad that Cocker sings alone.
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1 | Hard Knocks | 3:24 |
2 | Get On | 3:27 |
3 | Unforgiven | 4:16 |
4 | The Fall | 3:50 |
5 | So It Goes | 3:21 |
6 | Runaway Train | 3:27 |
7 | Stay The Same | 4:41 |
8 | Thankful | 4:00 |
9 | So | 3:55 |
10 | I Hope | 4:48 |
11 | Hard Knocks (Live) | 4:07 |
12 | Get On (Live) | 3:43 |
13 | Unforgiven (Live) | 4:19 |
14 | Thankful (Live) | 4:52 |
15 | You Are So Beautiful (Live) | 3:47 |
16 | With A Little Help From My Friends (Live) | 10:57 |
DVD1 | HARD KNOCKS - LIVE | |
DVD2 | GET ON - LIVE | |
DVD3 | STAY THE SAME - LIVE | |
DVD4 | UNFORGIVEN - LIVE | |
DVD5 | THANKFUL - LIVE |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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88697636981 | Joe Cocker | Hard Knocks (LP, Album, Gat) | Columbia SevenOne Music | 88697636981 | Europe | 2010 |
88697636982 | Joe Cocker | Hard Knocks (CD, Album) | Columbia SevenOne Music | 88697636982 | Europe | 2010 |
FTN 17833 | Joe Cocker | Hard Knocks (CD, Album) | 429 Records | FTN 17833 | US | 2011 |
88843049932 | Joe Cocker | Hard Knocks (CD, Album, RE) | Columbia SevenOne Music | 88843049932 | Europe | 2014 |
88697822072 | Joe Cocker | Hard Knocks (CD, Album, Dlx, Ltd + DVD, PAL) | Sony Music | 88697822072 | Germany | 2010 |