Have A Little Faith

Performer: Joe Cocker
Artist: Abraham Laboriel; Ernie Watts; Tony Joe White; Bekka Bramlett
Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Joe Cocker (vocals); Tim Pierce, Tony Joe White, Michael Thompson (guitars); Ernie Watts (alto saxophone); Don Shelton (saxophone); Rick Baptist; Wayne Bergeron (trumpet); Alen Iles (trombone); Jeffrey "C.J." Vanston (piano, organ, synthesizers, vibraphone, percussion); Chris Stainton (Wurlitzer piano, Rhodes piano, organ); Abraham Laboriel (bass); Bob Feit (electric bass); Jack Bruno (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Bekka Bramlett, Marlena Jeter, Alexandra Brown, Mortonette Jenkins, Joey Diggs, Lamont Van Hook, Fred White, The Water Sisters, Stephen Kipner (background vocals). Principally recorded at Record Plant and A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California. After eight years and five studio albums (plus a live album and a best-of album) with Capitol Records, Joe Cocker moved to 550 Music, a new Sony Music imprint, for Have a Little Faith. Produced by Chris Lord-Alge and his manager, Roger Davies, Cocker turned in a label debut full of well-chosen songs sung with authority. The title track, John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me," was a good choice for Cocker, as it contained that mixture of tenderness and toughness the singer has always brought out so well. Unfortunately, the new label affiliation did nothing for Cocker; Have a Little Faith flopped. ~ William Ruhlmann

The purveyor of the most blood-curdling scream in pop music history (on his epochal cover of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends"), the deeply soulful Joe Cocker is also one of rock's most gifted interpretive singers, with a live show that is the stuff of legend. Cocker's stage trademark is a heaving, herky-jerky style, one cribbed from Ray Charles's passionate motions at the piano. After a breakthrough performance at Woodstock, he enjoyed a wave of success in the 1970s, peaking with the aching ballad (and eventual wedding standard) "You Are So Beautiful." After a brief hiatus, Cocker reemerged, duetting with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong," the theme from AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN, one of the biggest hits of 1982.

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