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Hard Knocks (album)

Hard Knocks
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Studio album by Joe Cocker
Released 1 October 2010 (Europe)
24 January 2012 (US)
Genre Rock, blues
Label Columbia (Europe)
Savoy Label Group (USA)
Producer Matt Serletic
Joe Cocker chronology
Hymn for My Soul
(2007)Hymn for My Soul2007
Hard Knocks
(2010)
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(2011)Icon2011
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AllMusic 3/5 stars

Hard Knocks is the twenty-first 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 Billboard's Independent Albums chart and number 2 on the same magazine's European Albums chart.

A Limited Live Edition (CD/DVD) 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.

Limited Live Edition additional tracks


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