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Joe Cocker: Sheffield Steel

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Label: Island Records
Released: 1982.05.22
Time:
 38:19
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chris Blackwell, Alex Sadkin
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.cocker.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2011
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Look What You've Done (Nocentelli) - 4:14
[2] Shocked (Ingber/Sutton) - 3:13
[3] Sweet Little Woman (Fraser) - 4:01
[4] Seven Days (Dylan) - 5:23
[5] Marie (Newman) - 2:34
[6] Ruby Lee (Dunlap/Withers) - 4:24
[7] Many Rivers to Cross (Cliff) - 3:43
[8] So Good/So Right (Russell) - 2:33
[9] Talking Back to the Night (Jennings/Winwood) - 4:49
[10] Just Like Always (Webb) - 3:25

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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, Vocals
Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - Percussion

Chris Blackwell - Producer
Alex Sadkin - Producer
Paul Wexler - Assistant Producer, Associate Producer
Alex Sadkin - Engineer, Producer
Benji Armbrister - Engineer
Ted Jensen - Mastering
David Oxtoby - Artwork, Cover Design, Paintings
Anton Corbijn - Photography
Jerry Ewing - Sleevenotes

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1982 LP Island 842 476
1992 CD Polygram IMCD149
1992 CD Island 842 476
1995 CD Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 631
1995 CD Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab 631

Recorded at Compass Point Studio, Nassau, Bahamas - Mastered at Sterling Sound Studios, New York City.

Sheffield Steel is the eighth studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 1982. It was re-released in 2002 with several bonus tracks. Sheffield Steel is Joe Cocker's most consistently pleasing program of tunes in many years. Island Records label boss Chris Blackwell took Joe Cocker to Compass Point studios in the Bahamas. With legendary session musicians Sly and Robbie and Wally Badarou, Cocker crafted this smooth, sun-kissed album of reggaefied covers, including Bob Dylan's `Seven Days', Jimmy Webb's `Just Like Always' and Stevie Winwood's `Talking Back To The Night' a full year before Winwood's own version was released. Sheffield Steel has plenty of fine moments and in Cocker's hands, the reggae classic "Many Rivers to Cross" becomes movingly autobiographical and Randy Newman's "Marie" and Jimmy Webb's "Just like Always" are two of the kind of romantic big ballads that Cocker does so well.



After his one-album stint at Asylum Records with Luxury You Can Afford in 1978, Joe Cocker was without a record label until 1981, when he signed to Island Records. Island head Chris Blackwell took him to the Compass Point studios in the Bahamas, where he recorded a 12" single, "Sweet Little Woman"/"Look What You've Done," released in May 1981, then continued working on a full-length album. When that album, Sheffield Steel, appeared a year later, listeners could be forgiven for imagining, during the instrumental portions, that they were hearing not a Joe Cocker disc, but rather a Robert Palmer record. The instrumentalists were the Compass Point All-Stars, led by drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, and including keyboard player Wally Badarou and guitarist Barry Reynolds, and they maintained a steady tropical groove on most tracks that strongly recalled their work on Palmer's series of albums. 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" as he would again four years later with the songwriter's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" by singing it without any of the irony Newman's version contained. 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. The result was an effective album, if, once again, a one-off effort since Cocker, his career rejuvenated by the success of the movie theme "Up Where We Belong," quickly decamped for Capitol.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide



Nach heutigen Maßstäben war '82 für Cocker alles andere als eine Hochphase. Doch nach Jahren des Durchhängens bewies er hier stählerne Qualitäten: Sheffield Steel, weithin verkannt, zählt zu seinen stärksten Alben, um Längen besser als vieles, was er in den 90ern ablieferte. Seine Röhre klingt wie frisch geraspelt, funky Arrangements, erfrischend wie eine Karibik-Brise, knacken und knallen - dank der Reggae-Rhythmiker Sly Dunbar und Robbie Shakespeare, die nicht nur Bill Withers' Ruby Lee deftig aufpeppen. Dazu kommt das perfekte Remastering.

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Look What You've Done

I don't need no one to make my bed
I don't need no one to rub my head
I don't need no one to do me wrong
I don't need no one to sing my song

When you left me it was for the last time
When you left me I was in a bad state of mind
I couldn't think, I couldn't drink, I couldn't eat
It's been four whole days, I haven't had no sleep

Baby, baby look what you done
Baby, baby look what you done

I don't need no one just keeping me down
I don't need nobody just making a sound
I don't need no one to make me feel bad
I don't need nobody just making me sad

You make me feel that there ain't no point in living
You make me feel there's no reason for forgiving
You make me feel like I'm mad with the world
I can't even think of calling another girl

Baby, baby look what you done
Baby, baby look what you done

You make me feel that there ain't no point in living
You make me feel there's no reason for forgiving
You make me feel like I'm mad with the world
I can't even think of calling another girl

Baby, baby look what you done
Baby, baby look what you done


Shocked

I had no warning, came this morning
Don't believe what I see
An empty bed and a note that read
You got new company

I was shocked when you left
Cut to the quick
Shocked when you said that it's over now
I still remember how you made that final vow

Now I was blown up, I picked my phone up
Operator said to me
Save your dime, there's nobody on the line
Call back later if you please

I was shocked when you left
Cut to the quick
Shocked when you said that it's over now
I still remember how you made that final vow

I've been told there's a thorn in every rose
I've been told there's a thorn in every rose
I sure found out, girl I found out

I remember when I met you
And you wouldn't let me see
What you wrote down now it's going round
Well the news came secretly

I was shocked when you left
Cut down to the quick
Shocked when you said that it's over now
I still remember how you made that final vow
Cause I was shocked


Sweet Little Woman

I never had no one, who would worry 'bout me
'Til the day, you came walkin' in my life
I never had no one, worry 'bout my needs
'Til you came through a sign my [Incomprehensible]
I never realized, how beautiful love could be
'Til the day, you came walkin' in my home

Sweet little woman
You're turnin' me on
Sweet little woman
Rock me all the night long
Sweet little woman
Lead me into paradise

Sweet little woman
Keep turnin' me on
Sweet little woman
Rockin' me all the night long
Sweet little woman
Lead me into paradise

I never knew a life, wear such a happy face
Since you came, I've not shed a single tear
I never knew the world, ever could be so good
Since the day, all my clouds have disappeared

Sweet little woman
You're turnin' me on
Sweet little woman
Rockin' me all the night long
Sweet little woman
Why don't you lead me into paradise?

Sweet little woman
Keep turnin' me on
Sweet little woman
Rockin' me all the night long
Sweet little woman
Why don't ya lead me into paradise?
Hey, inside

Sweet little woman
You're drivin' me mad
Sweet little woman
Yeah, your lovin's so bad
Sweet little woman
Won't you lead me into paradise?

Sweet little woman
You're drivin' me mad
Sweet little woman
Tell your lovin's so bad
Sweet little woman
Lead me into paradise


Seven Days

Seven days, seven more days she'll be comin'
I'll be waiting at the station for her to arrive
Seven more days, all I gotta do is survive.

She been gone ever since I been a child
Ever since I seen her smile, I ain't forgotten her eyes.
She had a face that could outshine the sun in the skies.

I been good, I been good while I been waitin'
Maybe guilty of hesitatin', I just been holdin' on
Seven more days, all that'll be gone.

There's kissing in the valley,
Thieving in the alley,
Fighting every inch of the way.
Trying to be tender
With somebody I remember
In a night that's always brighter'n the day.

Seven days, seven more days that are connected
Just like I expected, she'll be comin' on forth,
My beautiful comrade from the north.

There's kissing in the valley,
Thieving in the alley,
Fighting every inch of the way.
Trying to be tender
With somebody I remember
In a night that's always brighter'n the day.


Marie

You looked like a princess the night we met
With your hair piled up high
I will never forget
I'm drunk right now baby
But I've got to be
Or I never could tell you
What you meant to me

I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you Marie
I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you Marie


Ruby Lee

Staring at shadows on the wall
Wish I knew of someone I could call
Someone who might understand it all
Ruby Lee, sure wish you were here with me

Someone lying with me in my bed
Some stranger who don't understand my head
Wish it was you lying here instead
Ruby Lee, sure wish you were here with me

Drowning in a sea of pretty faces
Being quite the man about the town
Packing up and going pretty places
But I sure miss you around

Listen to the noises down the hall
Think I'll move out of here in the fall
Ain't exactly having me a ball
Ruby Lee, sure wish you were here with me

Drowning in a sea of pretty faces
Being quite the man about the town
Packing up and going pretty places
But I sure miss you around

Listen to the noises down the hall
Wishin' there was someone out to call
Ain't exactly having me a ball
Ruby Lee, sure wish you were here with me


Many Rivers To Cross

Many Rivers To Cross
But I Can't Seem To Find My Way Over
Wandering I'm Lost
As I Travel Along The White Cliffs Of Dover

Many Rivers To Cross
And It's Only My Will That Keeps Me Alive
I've Been Ripped, Washed Up For Years
And I Merely Survive Because Of My Pride

And This Loneliness Won't Leave Me Alone
It's Such A Drag To Be On Your Own
My Women Left Me But She Wouldn't Say Why
Guess I'll Just Break Right Down And Cry

Many Rivers To Cross
But Just Where To Begin
I'm Playing For Time
There've Been Times I Find Myself
Thinking Of Committing Some Terrible Crime

Still This Loneliness Won't Leave Me Alone
It's Such A Drag To Be On Your Own
My Girl Left Me But She Wouldn't Say Why
Guess I'll Just Break Right Down And Cry

Many Rivers To Cross
But I Can't Seem To Find My Way Over
Wandering I Am Lost
As I Travel Along The White Cliffs Of Dover

Many Rivers To Cross
And It's Only My Will That Keeps Me Alive
I've Been Ripped, Washed Up For Years
And I Merely Survive Because Of My Pride


So Good, So Right

We're on the shores of nowhere looking out to sea
I turn to kiss your face and you laugh at me, you laugh at me
How do I feel well I feel like praying, feel like singing
Feel so good, so right, to be with you tonight

So good, so right, be with you tonight
So good, so right, be with you tonight
There is no space between the ocean you and me
Exchanging life-force as we live and breathe, together we'll be
How do I feel, well I feel like being, feel like singing, feel so good, so right
Just to be with you tonight

So good, so right, be with you tonight
So good, so right, be with you tonight

How do I feel well I feel like praying, feel like saying,
Feel so good, so right
To be with you tonight

So good, so right, be with you tonight
So good, so right, be with you tonight


Talking Back To The Night

High above the heat of a summer New York street
An out-of-work musician plays a solo saxophone
He's a preacher and a teacher
And he stands up all alone

Stranded in the dark of a vision in the park
A poet in his madness tries to find another line
And he's losing and he's using
And he says he's doing fine

And they look from such a height
That somehow it's all right
They're talking back to the night
It's all that they can do
Talking back to the night
It's how they make it through
If you listen you can hear them
Their voices draw you near them
They're talking back to the night for you

Something seems to take every dime the man can make
His dream is getting smaller and he wonders where to turn
And he's trying hard to make it
And he's trying not to burn

Woman never minds, pulls the shade and draws the blinds
She takes him in the darkness where the loneliest can feed
She gives him all she has to
And it's no more than he needs


Just Like Always

Every year when this day rolls around
I think of the night we both tore up the town
And I wonder if your're laughing with your eyes glowing
Making pretty conversation where the wine's flowing
And running and playing just like always

Every day at least one time
I picture your face in the back of my mind
Smiling at the ocean with your eyes shining
Your hair's a red river and it's all mine
You're a thousand days, just like always

Maybe someday I really will forget
Maybe start to live again a life without regret
Funny isn't it, but the man ain't laughing yet
Does love really last forever
Does the ocean miss the sunset everytime

I pass your street, I look both ways
So incomplete
And I think that I might see you
Lord knows I won't
I wish that you would call me
But I know you won't
But I love you anyway
Just like always
Just like always
Just like always
 

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