A guy named Joe
bigpull | So Cal | 04/10/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Joe Cocker really takes the crown as the king of Beatle covers with his take on WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS. And it's the perfect title for the album because he had more than a little help cutting these sessions with many of England's top rock musicians. He covers Dylan and others in fine fashion and his singing is just superb. An honest to god soul man. He could have easily showed up at the Stax Records studio in Memphis and made an even a better record than this one. And that's the only reason I don't give this record 5 stars. The playing here is quite good but the production is a little heavy handed. I'm one who actually slightly prefers his self titled follow up album because there's less of that deep reverb, layered sound. Having said that, this is still a great record. Joe's screamin' howl during the second bridge of the title track, is simply unequaled in the history of Rock 'n Roll........."