Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs & Englishmen

EX / EX

A&M Records – AMLD 6002

Format:

2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold

Tracklist

A1Introduction0:45

A2Honky Tonk Women3:35

A3Introduction0:18

A4Sticks And Stones2:30

A5Cry Me A River3:50

A6Bird On The Wire6:15

B1Feelin' Alright5:30

B2Superstar4:55

B3Introduction0:15

B4Let's Go Get Stoned7:15

Blue Medley(12:47)

C1-1I'll Drown In My Own Tears

C1-2When Something Is Wrong With My Baby

C1-3I've Been Loving You Too Long

C2Introduction0:20

C3Girl From The North Country2:30

C4Give Peace A Chance4:20

D1Introduction0:40

D2She Came In Thru The Bathroom Window2:50

D3Space Captain4:55

D4The Letter4:20

D5Delta Lady5:35

Companies, etc.

Distributed By – CBS Records
Record Company – CBS Records
Recorded At – Fillmore East
Phonographic Copyright ? – A&M Records, Inc.
Copyright © – A&M Records, Inc.
Produced For – Tarantula Productions

Credits

Bass – Carl Radle
Choir – Bobby Jones (4), Claudia Linnear*, Daniel Moore, Don Preston (2), Donna Washburn, Donna Wiess*, Matthew Moore, Nicole Barclay*, Pamela Polland, Rita Coolidge
Congas – Bobby Torres
Drums – Chuck Blackwell, Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner
Electric Piano – Chris Stainton
Engineer [Location] – Edwin Kramer*
Engineer [Mix-Down And Master] – Glyn Johns
Guitar – Leon Russell
Organ [Hammond] – Chris Stainton
Percussion – Chuck Blackwell, Sandy Konikoff
Piano – Leon Russell
Producer – Denny Cordell, Leon Russell
Rhythm Guitar – Don Preston (2)
Tenor Saxophone – Bobby Keys
Trumpet – Jim Price

Notes

Made In Holland

Recorded live March 27 to 28, 1970 at Fillmore East, New York

Mad Dogs & Englishmen is a live album by Joe Cocker, released in 1970. The album's title is drawn from the 1931 Noël Coward song of the same name. Only four songs of the sixteen on the original album were drawn from his first two studio albums. Besides the contributions of band-mate Leon Russell, it draws equally from rock (the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Bob Dylan, the Beatles) and soul (Ray Charles, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding). Accompanying Cocker is a choir, a three-piece horn section and several drummers.

The single, "The Letter"/"Space Captain", recorded during rehearsals was released to coincide with the tour. The album yielded the single "Cry Me a River"/"Give Peace a Chance."

According to the liner notes, Cocker needed to put together a band quickly for a U.S. tour that his management had organized. Russell recruited the musicians, many from his prior dealings with Delaney and Bonnie (Rita Coolidge, Carl Radle, Jim Price, Jim Horn and Jim Gordon) and The Wrecking Crew (Jim Keltner). Chris Stainton was held over from Cocker's Grease Band and Cocker's producer Denny Cordell was part of the backing vocalists.

Pete Nartez's review in Rolling Stone was generally negative, assessing that the album was "formed on a few days' notice to meet contractual obligations, and sounds like, well, like a group that was formed on a few days' notice to meet contractual obligations." He praised the tracks "Feelin' Alright", "Give Peace a Chance", and "Delta Lady", but criticised the majority of the arrangements and said that the album lacks stylistic variety. A more recent review of the box set in the magazine was more positive, calling the band "a pickup orchestra with saloon-soul swagger."

In a retrospective review for Allmusic, Bruce Eder praised the album for the unique sound created by the unconventionally large rock band. He noted that Joe Cocker's creative presence on the album was drowned out by that of Leon Russell, but held that this was not a bad thing.

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