Joe Cocker
SHEFFIELD STEEL
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Music On Vinyl / movlp540
12 Inch LP
SHEFFIELD STEEL
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If this item in stock, then you will get an infomation E-Mail!Without a label since 1978, Joe Cocker signed to Island Records in 1981.Chris Blackwell (head of Island) took him to the Bahamas, where he recorded a 12 inch single, >Sweet Little Woman / Look What You ve Done<, and continued working on a full length album: Sheffield Steel. The result was a successful album, which put Cockers name back on the map. Music on Vinyl brings this classic album back as 180 grams audiophile vinyl pressing.
It was released a year later. The instrumentalists were the Compass Point All-Stars, led by legendary session musicians Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. They supplied the steady tropical groove for most tracks.
Typically, however, Cocker made his own a group of high-quality songs from major songwriters. Bob Dylan's "Seven Days" was an obscure tune only previously heard in a 1979 recording by Ron Wood. Cocker succeeded with Randy Newman's "Marie" . Cocker got a jump on what would be the title track to Steve Winwood's next album, "Talking Back to the Night," and he approached Jimmy Webb's "Just Like Always" with delicacy.[info from mov]