Unchain My Heart (CD)

The purveyor of the most blood-curdling scream in pop music history (on his epochal cover of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends"), the deeply soulful Joe Cocker is also one of rock's most gifted interpretive singers, with a live show that is the stuff of legend. Cocker's stage trademark is a heaving, herky-jerky style, one cribbed from Ray Charles's passionate motions at the piano. After a breakthrough performance at Woodstock, he enjoyed a wave of success in the 1970s, peaking with the aching ballad (and eventual wedding standard) "You Are So Beautiful." After a brief hiatus, Cocker reemerged, duetting with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong," the theme from AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN, one of the biggest hits of 1982.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
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• Release Date: October 25, 1990
• Label: Capitol/EMI Records
• UPC: 077774828529
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106066500
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #89014 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #26820 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #17625 in General Rock & Pop (See Top 100 General Rock & Pop Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Joe Cocker, Phoebe Snow, Renee Geyer (vocals); Dan Hartman (guitar, keyboards, percussion, tambourine, background vocals); Phil Grande (guitar); Ric Cunningham (alto saxophone); Lawrence Feldman (tenor saxophone); Clarence Clemons (saxophone); Jeff Levine (piano, organ, keyboards); Greg Johnson (piano, organ); Robby Kilgore (keyboards); T.M. Stevens (bass); David Beal (drums); Sammy Figueroa (percussion); Tawatha Agee, Vaneese Thomas, Benny Diggs, B.J. Nelson, Jayne Ann Lang, Maxine Green, Janice Singleton (background vocals).

The Uptown Horns: Arno Hecht, Crispin Cioe, Robert Funk, "Hollywood" Paul Litteral (horns).

Recorded at The House Of Music, West Orange, New Jersey.

This wasn't exactly a comeback album, but it did boost Joe Cocker's veteran blues profile quite a bit. The title song, which gave Cocker the excuse to do his best Ray Charles imitation, was a hit (no doubt due, in part, to Clarence Clemmon's supporting saxophone work), and "A Woman Loves a Man" was featured prominently on the soundtrack to Kevin Costner's baseball flick BULL DURHAM. Much of the rest of the album is very slick and very '80s--the backing track for "Trust in Me" would have been right at home on a John Waite album--but the songs are generally tuneful and Cocker sings the pants off of all of them, in particular the attractively Stones/Faces derived "Satisfied."

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