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| Hymn for My Soul | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6668
Category: Music
Artist: Joe Cocker
Publisher: Fantasy
Studio: Fantasy
Manufacturer: Fantasy
Label: Fantasy
Language: French (Unknown)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 30398
UPC: 888072303980
EAN: 0888072303980
ASIN: B00160ANPU
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | You Haven't Done Nothin' | | • | One Word (Peace) | | • | Love Is For Me | | • | Don't Give Up On Me | | • | Long As I Can See The Light | | • | Beware Of The Darkness | | • | Just Pass It On | | • | River's Invitation | | • | Ring Them Bells | | • | Hymn 4 My Soul | | • | Come Together |
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Album Description
Nearly four decades after he thrilled the throngs at Woodstock, Joe Cocker remains one of rock's pre-eminent survivors, recording and touring prolifically and maintaining a loyal worldwide fan base. On Hymn For My Soul "The Sheffield Soul Shouter" delivers a stellar album that includes songs by Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, the Meters, John Fogerty, Percy Mayfield and more. The album was produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne), the son of Glyn Johns, who was the engineer on many of Cocker's early albums. Fantasy has the exclusive U.S. release of this album, which contains the bonus track "Come Together," from the Across The Universe soundtrack.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Classic Voice, Trite Song Selection September 8, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The minute that old gravelly voice comes through the speakers it makes you just want to smile. The fact that one of Rock's classic voices is still in such fine form is reason enough to appreciate and buy this CD. I could only wish that the song selection created a feeling that there were some classics here that will stand the test of time. The haunting rendition of Creedence's "Long as I Can See the Light" comes closest, and is a tremendous bluesy take on an original swamp classic. The rest just don't seem to measure up to the best of Cocker's interpretations. Mediocre song choice, but Oh, how that voice still sends chills up your spine!!!
 WHAT A VOICE ......THIS IS THE !!!!! MAN JOE COCKER September 7, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
40 YEARS ONE OF THE BEST VOICES UNCLE JOE IS ONE OF THE BEST
 Joe Cocker "Hymn for my soul" September 1, 2008
0 out of 12 found this review helpful
I love Joe Cocker and have all of his cd's. This was very disappointing to me.. Slow and not typical of his previous works. I would not recommend this to anyone.
From an unbeliever to a super-believer fan..... August 24, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've never been a fan of Joe Cocker, beginning from his Woodstock days. My husband has always been a big fan of his, especially since Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen album. I had to listen to that one over & over, ad naseum, etc. I saw Joe in August on The View, promoting his new "album". He was very charming, & performed his title song of this "album", as I guess I'll always call it. "Hymn for my Soul" is just a beautiful song--I fell in love. My husband's birthday was coming up, so I ordered it for him. I am now a certified fan of Joe. The version of "Come Together" is definitly the best I have ever heard, even better than the original. Sorry I've dissed you all these years, Joe. You are a true artist, & my husband was right from the beginning.
Power & Conviction August 23, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
"We are amazed but not amused by all the things you said to do," Joe Cocker blasts amid a punchy horn arrangement on a Stevie Wonder song that starts one of Cocker's best CDs. "You Haven't Done Nothin'" is simply one of the best tracks Cocker has recorded. He plucks George Harrison's "Beware of Darkness" from the All Things Must Pass [BOXED EDITION] album and fully embodies the track with its now familiar melody and transforms the meditative song into a slow soul crooner, "The hopelessness around you, in the dead of night, beware of sadness." Percy Mayfield's "River's Invitation" is another pearl with Benmont Tench's piano giving the perfect accent to the bouncy arrangement about a guy about ready to throw himself into the river, "I'm trying to find my baby that no one has seen around, You know which way I'm headed if my baby can't be found." The Beatles' "Come Together" that Cocker sang in the film and on the soundtrack of Across The Universe [Deluxe Edition] concludes the set as a bonus track. Other songs like Daniel Moore's "Just Pass It On," John Fogerty's "Long As I Can See the Light" and Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells" are also exquisite. Joe Cocker does what he does best on "Hymn for My Soul," fills the music with power and conviction that mesmerizes the listener. Bravo!
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