Joe Cocker has spent his forties calling
for spiritual renewal, and never more so than here. Kicking all with
Joe South's pious but tuneful Let The Feeling Begin, the air of entreaty
barely relents through such heaviosity-lite as The Simple Things and
Frankie Miller's better but still tiresomely non-specific Soul Time.
Best of all in this vein is the title track, and that is because it
was written by John Hiatt. Cocker's co-composition with Tony Joe White,
Angeline, reveals this album's real shortcoming. Never exactly a rock
rebel, Joe Cocker was born to sing uplifting white soul, and his voice
remains a paragon of belief throughout. But, with the exception of
Grease Band veteran Chris Stainton and his pounding piano, the band
are in that last dating big rock style : drums played rigidly to the
click-track, "tasty" blues guitar Filigree, grandstanding
solos-by-the yard. Make that call to Little Feat.
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