Cocker is one of the few stars of the 1969 Woodstock Festival to still be a big enough star in 1994 to get a full set in the 1994 Woodstock. The other big stars to do so were Santana, the Band, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. John Sebastian and Country Joe McDonald had less prominent sets. Bob Weir showed up as part of a duo instead of with the Grateful Dead. Finally, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassady played in the original Woodstock as part of Jefferson Airplane, but played in Woodstock '94 as Hot Tuna while guesting during the Band set.
At the time of this concert, he hadn't put out a new studio album since 1991. He would release one in 1994, "Have a Little Faith," but that wouldn't come out until a month after this concert. However, that was close enough for him to play one song from it, "Summer in the City," a cover of the 1960s Lovin' Spoonful classic.
There's not much else for me to say about the music here, so I'll point out a couple of basic facts about Woodstock '94. The maximum crowd estimated for the original Woodstock was around 450,000. For Woodstock '94, it was about 350,000, though some say more. This new Woodstock was definitely much more commercial. Tickets cost $135. However, only about 150,000 people paid to get it. The crowd swelled so much on the second day that people broke down the fences and streamed in.
This album is an hour and seven minutes long.
01 talk (Joe Cocker)
02 Feelin' Alright (Joe Cocker)
03 Hitchcock Railway (Joe Cocker)
04 You Can Leave Your Hat On (Joe Cocker)
05 When the Night Comes (Joe Cocker)
06 Summer in the City (Joe Cocker)
07 Up Where We Belong (Joe Cocker)
08 Shelter Me (Joe Cocker)
09 Unchain My Heart (Joe Cocker)
10 The Letter (Joe Cocker)
11 With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker)
12 talk (Joe Cocker)
13 Cry Me a River (Joe Cocker)
14 You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker)
15 High Time We Went (Joe Cocker)
https://www.upload.ee/files/16751003/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_08JoCckr_atse.zip.html
The cover photo is from this exact concert.
Thanks so much for this one, I'm a big fan of Joe Cocker. So glad I got to see him twice in my concert going career.
ReplyDeleteHi, Paul - BBC Radio broadcast a full 12 hours of Woodstock '94 live on 13th August 1994, including Joe Cocker https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_radio_one/1994-08-13#at-17.00
ReplyDeleteThe Joe Cocker section was subsequently edited to fit an hour slot and broadcast as "Joe Cocker In Concert" over BBC Radio 2 on 6th September 1997 and repeated a couple more times - I have a cassette somewhere with one of those In Concert broadcasts, but I can't imagine it would add anything - most likely it will have station idents and chat from the presenter!
Thanks, as always.
Stuart