Can not Find My Way Home

After "One Night of Sin" and "Joe Cocker LIVE!" I was of "Night Calls" disappointed in 1991. Although some of the same musicians were there, it sounded too cool, too formulaic. Maybe was the record company too, because a year later they brought a jazzed and redenominated version on the market: to her missing Not too young to die of a broken heart and Little Bit of Love, but they also contained the song When A Woman Cries , Now that the Magic has gone and Feels like forever and additional remixes from Joe's last two big hits, Unchain My Heart ('90s version) and When the Night Comes, all on "The Best of Joe Cocker" included. Well, When the Night Comes is something a lot of reverb in the original, but these "drier" Remix nevertheless was not necessary. After all, he could here (unlike in "The Best of ...") kept his guitar solo!

Joe Cocker affects me indifferent on the album, he goes to very safe. Here, the two producers involved complement each other very well the musician (with Jeff Lynne, who provided the theme song, there are three), rock the guitar, the sound is good, competent ... and yet they sound a bit too professional, too smooth to little snotty and dirty. The songs are a bit constructed: "Here the guitar solo comes out clear ... and here a break ..." The album works partially, as if Joe had not quite put their hearts into: "Joe, we have a couple of songs for out looking for you and imported, will you come over time and to sing it? " - "Sure, I'll come times over ..."

In part it is also because the songs. Elton John Do not Let The Sun Go Down On Me (already in the original never my favorite song), Please no more, Five Women (written by Prince) and Not Too Young ... just do not come true in the corridors, at There's a Storm coming wants exactly this impression does not arise, and also Little Bit of Love (of Free) lacks that certain something. You've got to hide your love away shows that it is not always a good idea rauszunehmen the pace of a Beatles song at covers.

Gary Wright Love is alive against rocking good going on, just as the earned single release I can hear the river, and with Stevie Winwood Can not Find My Way Home, there is an atmospheric highlight. Likewise, the theme song from the rest stands out: although Jeff Lynne has recorded the song for the most part alone and you clearly hear out his manuscript from his typical washed-production, it sounds made for Joe.

From Love is alive appeared on "The Long Voyage Home" a slightly longer version, and to the I Can Hear The River-Maxi-CD's were still the bonus track I still can not believe it's true. Joe Cocker's next album, "Have A Little Faith" three years later, was then much better.