1969 JOE COCKER & GREASE BAND POWERFUL Hard DRIVING

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         STONE MINT TOP COPY

                       *ORIGINAL* 

         1969 POWERFUL DRIVING: 

                   JOE COCKER

                  JOE COCKER!

\                                             USA - brown A&M Records - SP 4224 

STONE MINT TOP COPY !  *** looks like it was just 0pened and 41 years old!!!

Includes the original printed A&M Records inner sleeve...

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The 1969 second album by the illustrious Joe Cocker ... a booming energized affair...Just freshly together here with his famous Grease Band and sojust after they made history at the historic Woodstock festival...Along with his first album (A Little Help From My Friends), this is one of Cockers two best albums...highly inspired and exploding, the powerful delivery drives home tracks like "She Came Through The Bathroom Window", "Delta Lady", "Dear Landlord" and virtully all the rest - there are no bad cuts ... many have forgotten or never knew how explosive this album is!

Joe Cocker's delightful second album is ample proof that the imagination that transformed a song so fixed in our minds as With A Little Help From My Friends has not run out of things to do, nor fallen into the trap of "stylization."

Joe, his Grease Band, and their friends – who together form one of the toughest rhythm and blues bands outside of just about anything – starting from the bottom up in re-arranging material as familiar as Dear Landlord or She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. It's not a matter of "improving" the songs, but of removing them from their original sound and conception to such a degree that they remain great music and still don't really remind the listener of the original versions. Not just anyone can carry off lines like those, from Leonard Cohen's Bird On The Wire: "Like a bird on the wire ... I will try, in my way, to be free." When Joe sings it those words seem as timeless as the wisdom of the blues.

Cocker himself was beginning to sound like a master, his band surprised as well. Their introduction to She Came In Through The Bathroom Window sounds like a fat man splitting his pants – and then Cocker falls in like he slipped on a bar of soap. The song itself has that hilarious circus sound of Dylan's Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window. And maybe that's not a coincidence.

What was special about Joe Cocker in this album, is that he is so much fun to listen to, because the fun he's having – on stage, picking his phantom guitar with mad frenzy, or on record, letting his own excesses communicate his real emotion – is completely infectious.

  1. Dear Landlord
2. Bird On The Wire
3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
4. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
5. Hitchcock Railway
6. That's Your Business Now
7. Something
8. Delta Lady
9. Hello, Little Friend
10. Darling Be Home Soon

CONDITION: The Cover:is clean MINT  everything solid and in order ! A sharp 41 year old relic with no seam splits, no bends, no writing...4 sharp corners ... you won't find a better copy unless it is pristine and sealed

The Vinyl: TOP M- clean, smooth and glossy expect to play CLEAN, no audio problems ... the labels are both clean 

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record