So I find this album by Joe Cocker again super. I found his last album "Hymn for My Soul" a bit boring. Only the single "Hymn for My Soul" which I liked. Although you can tell Joe that his voice no longer even being so young, she sounds very well ... But songs like the brilliant single "Hard Knocks" or the great ballad "Unforgiven" he shows that still is capable of super publish songs. Overall, here is really a song, except the very unmelodic "Get On" here, the disappointment. Even the powerful "The Fall" is really okay. The very fast "Runaway Train" is my favorite on "Hard Knocks". The songs: "So it gooes" & "Stay the Same" are really okay. The two ballads "Thankful &" So, "I really like. Overall, this album should be evaluated with good, but I think it's just too short, with 39 min. Too bad Joe could grab two more songs on it in similar quality, so I have very clear deduct a star. By the way, the album was a week at the position 1 in the charts !!!