Hard Knocks (album)


Hard Knocks is the 21st and penultimate studio album by Joe Cocker, released on 1 October 2010 by Columbia Records in Europe. It features nine new songs produced by Matt Serletic plus Cocker's version of the Dixie Chicks number "I Hope", which was produced by Tony Brown. Apart from a regular CD release, the album was also released on vinyl.
The album reached number 1 on Billboards Independent Albums chart and number 2 on the same magazine's European Albums chart.
A Limited Live Edition version of the album was released in December 2010 in Europe with live tracks off the album recorded at Le Zenith in Paris in 2010.

Track listing

  1. "Hard Knocks" – 3:24
  2. "Get On" – 3:28
  3. "Unforgiven" – 4:14
  4. "The Fall" – 3:49
  5. "So It Goes" – 3:21
  6. "Runaway Train" – 3:27
  7. "Stay The Same" – 4:39
  8. "Thankful" – 3:59
  9. "So" – 3:56
  10. "I Hope" – 4:46
  11. "Forever Changed" – 3:51 – iTunes bonus track
Limited Live Edition additional tracks
  1. "Hard Knocks"
  2. "Get On"
  3. "Unforgiven"
  4. "Thankful"
  5. "You Are So Beautiful"
  6. "With a Little Help from My Friends"

Personnel

Choir on "Thankful"

Production

Personnel