Here’s a particular line in Bebe Moore Campbell’s
\nYour Blues Ain’t Like Mine<\/i> which struck my funny bone; “‘I
\ndon’t care what you say,’ the light skinned man muttered. ‘White
\npeople ain’t got no blues.'”<\/p>\n
If that’s true, Joe Cocker puts up an impressively convincing
\nimitation. Son of a coal miner and a Woodstock veteran, this master
\nof remakes is the key figure of “blue-eyed soul” and lately been
\ncast into a lot of soundtracks. I first encountered him on
\nThe Bodyguard<\/i> soundtrack (gimmie a break, I’ve been
\nlistening to music for only four years) in the duet with Sass
\nJordan “Trust In Me”. His voice was more attention-grabbing than
\nWhitney Houston’s, who was on the same album.<\/p>\n
\nOrganic<\/i> however, does away with “Trust In Me” and “Up Where
\nWe Belong”-esque pop shmaltz and settles for a toned, back-to-roots
\nsound by playing all the instruments by hand and throat. It’s
\ndefinitely this traditional arrangement of orthodox instruments
\nthat makes the album organic.<\/p>\n
The artists approach the music in such an intimate way, it’s not
\ndifficult to let the mind wander in jealousy. Billy Preston on the
\nHammond organ playes the life of some of the tracks like “Into The
\nMystic” and “Bye Bye Blackbird”. Backup divas aren’t exactly having
\nchurch with the microphone but the effect they have on a song
\nwhenever the hit a punctual note is simply astonishing.
\nPercussionists Kenny Aronoff and Jim Keltman are highlighted in
\nevery track; basically, on the same level as Cocker. Cocker himself
\nlives up to his crew by being everything from, of course, mellow to
\ndownright silly (only an American would have the lyric “as happy as
\na monkey in a monkey tree” in a patriotic song).<\/p>\n
Master of Remakes, the Male Celine Dion; not only did he cover
\nsongs by Stevie Wonder and most unsurprisingly the Beatles, but
\nthis guy is so loco he covered
\nhimself<\/i>; “Delta Lady” and “You Are So Beautiful” among
\nothers. Not that it was from insecurity; it simply goes to show the
\nextent of the team’s efforts into making a coherent atmosphere. And
\neven though you’ll be unconsciously comparing the songs to the
\noriginals, I can safely vouch that it can be listened for
\nitself.<\/p>\n
The question again: DO white people have any blues? Now I’m all
\nmessed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5763],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-35649","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-joe-cocker","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35649"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35649"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}