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Teaming up once again with producer Matt Serletic, the Matchbox 20 and Collective Soul producer who helmed the 2010 album Hard Knocks, Joe Cocker winds up branching out in slightly different directions on 2012's Fire It Up. Where Hard Knocks wound up as a clean, polished, blue-eyed soul album, Fire It Up sounds closer to Serletic's work with Matchbox 20 -- an adult pop album where the R&B is buried beneath gleaming, pulsating rock. Cocker has often mined this crossover vein and he's done so with engaging results going as far back as 1989's "When the Night Comes," and he sounds appealing enough here, particularly on the sprightlier numbers. When things start to slow down, Cocker sounds a little more vulnerable, a little older, and while there's charm to that raggedness, Serletic's production is too precise to be a good match. Nevertheless, this is an assured, professionally crafted piece of contemporary adult pop.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Matt Serletic, Producer - Marty Dodson, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Reid, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist - Alan Frew, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Trott, ComposerLyricist - Victoria Horn, ComposerLyricist - Steve McMorran, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Dennis Matkosky, ComposerLyricist - Steve Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Matt Serletic, Producer - Stephanie Bentley, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ross Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist - R Brewster, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Rob Giles, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Marc Broussard, ComposerLyricist - Calvin Turner, ComposerLyricist - Courtlan Clement, ComposerLyricist - Jamie Kenney, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist - Chad Gilmore, ComposerLyricist - DeMarco Johnson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Burr, ComposerLyricist - Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Wayne Kirkpatrick, ComposerLyricist - Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Tyler Hilton, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Joss Stone, ComposerLyricist - Graham Lyle, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist - Charlie Evans, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Keith Urban, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Kevin Bowe, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist - Joe Stark, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sam Hollander, ComposerLyricist - Dave Katz, ComposerLyricist - Aimee Proal, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Marc Cohn, ComposerLyricist - JOHN LEVENTHAL, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeffrey Steele, ComposerLyricist - Matt Serletic, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Barlow, ComposerLyricist - Joe Cocker, MainArtist
℗ 2012 Adaven Productions, under exclusive license to Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Teaming up once again with producer Matt Serletic, the Matchbox 20 and Collective Soul producer who helmed the 2010 album Hard Knocks, Joe Cocker winds up branching out in slightly different directions on 2012's Fire It Up. Where Hard Knocks wound up as a clean, polished, blue-eyed soul album, Fire It Up sounds closer to Serletic's work with Matchbox 20 -- an adult pop album where the R&B is buried beneath gleaming, pulsating rock. Cocker has often mined this crossover vein and he's done so with engaging results going as far back as 1989's "When the Night Comes," and he sounds appealing enough here, particularly on the sprightlier numbers. When things start to slow down, Cocker sounds a little more vulnerable, a little older, and while there's charm to that raggedness, Serletic's production is too precise to be a good match. Nevertheless, this is an assured, professionally crafted piece of contemporary adult pop.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:21
- Main artists: Joe Cocker
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: New Door Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2015 Adaven Productions ℗ 2015 Adaven Productions
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