"Have a Little Faith" threw the same from four singles, open the album: the title song, The Simple Things, Let the Healing begin and especially Cockers zippy cover of Lovin 'Spoonful Hits Summer in the City, the Summer '94 almost took up that I like turned the car radio loud! Another strong cover is Robbie Robertson's Out of the Blue by The Band's "Last Waltz". Even the rocking hell and high water stands out.
When Bekka Bramlett was a baby, Cocker sang in the choir on the album "Motel Shot" their parents with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, and Joe and Bekka decide the album containing the duet Take me home. (Bekka Bramlett jumped the way a year later on Fleetwood Mac's underground album "Time" for a Stevie Nicks;! A thankless job) Her voice is similar to her mother, only that she has her vibrato better grip. In the Maxi-CDs The Simple Things ('94) and later My Father's Son (2000) still appeared a duet from this time, My Strongest Weakness, this time with Bonnie Raitt. Also on the latter gave Maxi's with Is not No Sunshine another outtake from that period, not my favorite song but rearranged interesting.
Cockers new band played of course highly professional, and the album sounded a bit more pleasing and not so rocky like "One Night of Sin", but complacency and "rock cred" here talked one last time the balance. For the first time recorded the handwriting of Cockers new arranger CJ Vanston, from who was responsible for most of the keyboards and the horn arrangements and could not resist, to simulate a couple horn sections on the keyboard. Well, the technology it was her, but it is debatable whether this was necessary, especially also played along real wind on the album. The "synthetic" Harmonica Solo (pronounced by keyboard produces) in The Simple Things, but sounds too artificial. Those were the nineties!
Of course, Cocker said his time in the press, this is his best album so far, but I suspect artists are anyway contractually obliged to say that - until the next album. "Have a Little Faith" at least Cockers best in the nineties, one of my favorite albums of him and the last thing that convinced me throughout; In the following period he seemed increasingly willing to give the benefit of the radio capability satisfied with a guest role on his albums.
