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Joe Cocker

The legendary British born, Grammy award winning singer, renowned for his unique voice and passionate delivery, Joe Cocker, returns with his 23rd studio album.

Following on from the resounding success of his platinum selling number one 2010 album ‘Hard Knocks’, Joe Cocker has returned to Matt Serletic's Californian Emblem studios to deliver an outstanding follow up album due for release this winter.

Serletic, producer (Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul, Carlos Santana) and Cocker have produced 'Fire It Up', an album of eleven songs recorded over the 2011 winter and spring of 2012.

On working again with Joe Cocker, Serletic explains: “We took it to the next level. I’m excited to hear all the different elements that we brought to this album, we got great classic soul records, big power ballads, high energy tracks, and they all have their place in this album ”. Cocker shares that creative direction: "Making an album, to me, is a bit like making a painting, you know, you’ve got 12 songs, and it’s colour - I don’t like everything to be one mood”.

Diverse album tracks include ‘Eye On The Prize’ written by Marc Broussard from New Orleans, who also wrote the song ‘Hard Knocks’; ‘I’ll Walk In The Sunshine Again’ written by the platinum selling singer-songwriter Keith Urban. Cocker describes it as: “It’s country but it isn’t”; ‘The Letting Go’ written by the trio of Charlie Evans with renowned young British blues/soul singer Joss Stone, and Grammy award winning Graham Lyle; and the irresistible title track ‘Fire It Up’ written by Alan Frew, Johnny Reid, and Marty Dodson, with the anthemic lyric, and rapturous chorus sung with Cocker’s signature passion.

Cocker: "Fire It Up is a special kind of tune, and it set up the whole album”. Serletic: “There’s this whole energy which we captured". 'Fire It Up', the first single taken from the album, will be released 12th October prior to the album release.

Joe Cocker will be in Europe during autumn and winter for extensive promotional tours.

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Book Review

Tribute: Cocker Power

Read "Tribute:  Cocker Power" reviewed by John Coltelli


Tribute: Cocker Power Linda Wolf 333 Pages ISBN: #978-1-64722-025-9 Insight Editions 2020 It was a cloudy yet warm day in mid march 1970 as musicians, singers, soundmen, girlfriends, photographers, a dog, and several hangers on made their way to the A & M records soundstage on La Brea Ave. in jny: Los Angeles, California for rehearsals. The festive tribal gathering was there at the behest of keyboardist Leon ...

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Opinion

Joe Cocker 1944-2014

Read "Joe Cocker 1944-2014" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


For all of the boasting that the United States can do being the birthplace of every major popular music genre since 1920, the United States cannot claim the credit for the widespread popularization of this music. That honor goes to Europe, and more specifically, the United Kingdom, who more than any other country, forced the United States to fully appreciate her musical fruits. It was the institutional racism endemic in the United States that prevented artists like Ray Charles, Solomon ...

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Extended Analysis

Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Read "Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Mad Dogs and Englishmen A & M Records 1970 Give me a ticket for an aer-o-plane...I ain't got time to take no fast train... The first record album (long player of LP, that is—what old people put on turntables and played) I ever bought was Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends ( A&M, 1969). I purchased this lovely for $2.69 at Osco Drug in the University Mall in ...

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Album Review

Joe Cocker and the Grease Band: Live at Woodstock

Read "Live at Woodstock" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Great Britain taught America to be proud of her musical heritage by importing it, transforming it, and sending it back to her. The American South between 1920 and 1960 was a hothouse for all of America's great musical offerings: blues, R&B, country, jazz, and rock and roll. All of these genres germinated in the United States, migrated to Europe--particularly the United Kingdom--attend finishing school and were carried back to the United States by, among others, The Animals, The Beatles, Rolling ...

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Bailey's Bundles

The Colossal Triumph Of Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Read "The Colossal Triumph Of Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The phenomenon known as Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen turned 35 years old in 2005. A six-disc limited edition box set, Mad Dogs & Englishmen--The Complete Fillmore East Concerts, was released to commemorate the anniversary, and documents all four shows performed by the band at New York's Fillmore East Auditorium on March 27th and 28th, 1970. Released concurrently were the two-disc Mad Dogs & Englishmen--The Deluxe Edition and a remastered DVD of the original concert movie. ...

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Performance / Tour

Susan Tedeschi Says Sprawling Tedeschi Trucks Band Owes Much to Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'

Susan Tedeschi Says Sprawling Tedeschi Trucks Band Owes Much to Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'

Source: Something Else!

There is, of course, an obvious comparison for the newly formed Tedeschi Trucks Band—yeah, we made it too—in the 1970s-era husband-and-wife tours led by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. Susan Tedeschi, however, says their group's main inspiration goes further back. All the way back to the traveling caravan of grease-popping soul and eye-popping excess that was Joe Cocker's late-1960s jaunts with Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, members of Derek and the Dominoes, Jim Keltner, Bobby Keys and others—mythical, then as now, for ...

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Joe Cocker Headlines Israel Gilboa Coexistence Fest

Joe Cocker Headlines Israel Gilboa Coexistence Fest

Source: All About Jazz

Joe Cocker has been recruited to headline a new summer festival in Israel.

The three-day Gilboa Coexistence Festival, taking place August 26-28, will promote peace between the Jews and Arabs living in the Gilboa section of the Middle Eastern country. Many acts will be original musical Arab-Jewish ensembles and bands created especially for the festival in never-before seen lineups. Hillel Wachs concert booking agent. 2BVibes, the company staging the festival, also organized last year's Jerusalem Rocks fest, which ...

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