{"id":22194,"date":"2014-12-22T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22194"},"modified":"2014-12-22T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:00:40","slug":"kick-out-the-jams-joe-cocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kick-out-the-jams-joe-cocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick Out the Jams, Joe Cocker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sdYa_utBX9g\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSad to hear of Joe Cocker&#8217;s death. Thanks to my Uncle Joe, he was one of my first Rock Superheroes. Uncle Joe bought me the early Cocker albums, including the mind-blowing The Mad Dogs &amp; The Englishman live album, in which the band members were given little sobriquets, like Leon Russell&#8217;s (I believe) unattainable title of &#8220;Master of Space and Time.&#8221; My uncle saw a tour after that album at the Spectrum and brought me home a huge button with the cover shot and a cardboard cutout of Cocker&#8217;s wild face on a stick. I wish I still have that face on a stick. I loved the way Cocker and his band simply KICKED IT OUT. Even his ballads were delivered with force. He will be missed in this age of the navel-gazing artists who sing like Confederate soldiers taking their last breath while holding their newborn sons. Cocker, who was not a songwriter, made the most of so many other artists&#8217; works. Here&#8217;s my favorite by him, &#8220;Delta Lady.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to hear of Joe Cocker&#8217;s death. Thanks to my Uncle Joe, he was one of my first Rock Superheroes. Uncle Joe bought me the early Cocker albums, including the mind-blowing The Mad Dogs &amp; The Englishman live album, in which the band members were given little sobriquets, like Leon Russell&#8217;s (I believe) unattainable title <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kick-out-the-jams-joe-cocker\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}