“Love Is For Me” Audio Streams:

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On May 13th, Fantasy Records will release Hymn For My Soul, the newest album from legendary singer Joe Cocker. The album unites Cocker, possessor of one of the world’s most instantly recognisable and iconic voices (Lennon & McCartney’s With A Little Help From My Friends, anyone?), with Ethan Johns, who has proved both his worth and his Midas touch via albums he’s produced for, among others, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams, Razorlight, Kings of Leon, and Ray LaMontagne. The union has resulted in one of the most accomplished pieces of work in the Sheffield-born singer’s long and illustrious career, and one played by arguably the most stellar band to be assembled in a recording studio anywhere in the world in recent times.

Among them are drummers Jim Keltner (uniformly viewed as the best session drummer in the world, a man who played with John Lennon and Bob Dylan), and James Gadson (as well as producing classic albums for the soul star Bill Withers, he drummed on hit recordings by artists ranging from Gladys Knight to Justin Timberlake). Also present are Tom Petty’s pianist Benmont Tench, former Jethro Tull keyboard player Dave Palmer, bassist Bob Babbitt (member of Motown Records’ studio band The Funk Brothers in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and hence a player on more seminal recordings than can be listed here), and Hammond organist Mike Finnigan (who played with Jimi Hendrix on Electric Ladyland). Completing the all-star line-up on backing vocals are Merry Clayton (once one of Ray Charles’s Raelettes, she sang on the Stones’ Gimme Shelter), Tata Vega, Julia Walters, her brother Oren Walters, and Jim Gilstrap.

“You Haven’t Done Nothin” Audio Streams :

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Joe Cocker Official Site:

http://www.cocker.com

Tour Dates:

May

24      West Palm Beach, FL               Cruzan Amphitheater

25      Tampa, FL                                Ford Amphitheater

26      Atlanta, GA                              Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

29      Oklahoma City, OK                   The Zoo Amphitheater

30      Dallas, TX                                Superpages Center

31      Houston, TX                             Cynthia Woods Pavilion

June

1       Austin, TX                                The Backyard

26      Muskegon, MI                           Summer Celebration

27      Detroit, MI                                DTE Energy Center

28      Indianapolis, IN                         Verizon Wireless Center

July

2       Kansas City, MO                      Starlight Theater

3       Minneapolis, MN                       Target Center

5       Chicago, IL                               First Midwest Bank Amphitheater

6       St. Louis, MO                           Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

10      New York, NY                         Radio City Music Hall

11      Long Island, NY                        Jones Beach

12      Pittsburgh, PA                           Post Gazette Pavilion

13      Bethel, NY                               Bethel Woods Center

15      Toronto, ON                             Molson Amphitheater

17      Washington, DC                        Merriweather Post Pavilion

18      Foxwoods, CT                           MGM Grand at Foxwoods

19      Boston, MA                              Tweeter Center

20      Holmdel, NJ                              PNC Bank Center

30      Salt Lake City, UT                    USANA Amphitheater

Aug

2      George, WA                             The Gorge

3      Central Point, OR                      Lithia Motors Amph

6      Los Angeles, CA                       Nokia Theatre

7      Santa Barbara, CA                     County Bowl

8      Phoenix, AZ                           Dodge Theatre

9      Las Vegas, NV                         Orleans Arena