JOE COCKER: SHEFFIELD STEEL (RARE MFSL TEST PRESSING)
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JOE COCKER: SHEFFIELD STEEL
MFSL 1-223
ANADISC 200 LP
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Forget low numbers – Test Pressings are as rare as they come!
This highly collectible test pressing is from the first stamper and there are less than 20 in existence. Test pressings reflect the closest you can get to the lacquers and hence have a special collectible and store of value.
JOE COCKER: SHEFFIELD STEEL
Under the resourceful tutelage of label kingpin Chris Blackwell, Joe Cocker has found a new Island home. Without question, Sheffield Steel (recorded in Jamaica) is the gravel-throated singer's most consistently pleasing program of tunes in many years. He's supported by Blackwell's superlative house band, the Compass Point All-Stars (which includes the can't-miss rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare); throughout, they find a solid groove and ride it with tasteful understatement.
Cocker, clearly at ease in these balmier surroundings, lets his voice roll along as naturally as a sailboat in a Jamaican breeze. This is not the jolting, brassy R&B of yesteryear; rather, this is rocking-chair rockin' – Cocker and band let these songs get there when they get there, if you know what I mean. Sheffield Steel has plenty of fine moments: Cocker does Bob Dylan proud on the salty funk of "Seven Days" and covers a new Steve Winwood-Will Jennings composition, "Talking Back to the Night," whose muted urgency is the closest this set comes to out-and-out rock. In Cocker's hands, the reggae classic "Many Rivers to Cross" becomes movingly autobiographical. Not unexpectedly, Randy Newman ("Marie") and Jimmy Webb ("Just like Always") contribute the side-closers, two of the kind of romantic big ballads that Cocker takes to so well.
It's great to hear the most eloquently ravaged voice in rock & roll have his sly, swaggering say again. Sheffield Steel is filled with teasing, skittering melodies, chugging Jamaican soul-funk rhythms and confident singing, proving that you can cook over a low fire and still have your groove turn out well done. - PARKE PUTERBAUGH (Posted: Sep 2, 1982)
Tracks:
- Look What You've Done (4:14)
- Shocked (3:13)
- Sweet Little Woman (4:01) (Guitar - Adrian Belew, Vocals - Jimmy Cliff, Robbie Shakespeare)
- Seven Days (5:23)
- Marie (2:34)
- Ruby Lee (4:24)
- Many Rivers To Cross (3:43)
- So Good, So Right (2:33) (Vocals - Barry Reynolds, Robert Palmer)
- Talking Back To The Night (4:49)
- Just Like Always (3:25)
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