Joe Cocker - Luxury You Can Afford (1978) Part 3 (Full Album)

Track List: 9-11 9. Joe Cocker - Lady Put The Light Out (0:00) 10. Joe Cocker - Wasted Years (4:46) 11. Joe Cocker - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (9:36) Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. I loved this album, from start to finish, and still do. Drew Review by Steve Leggett: Luxury You Can Afford was Joe Cocker’s only album for Asylum Records. Released in 1978 and produced by Allen Toussaint, it had all the pedigree to be a great recording. With Cocker’s trademark wounded, Ray Charles-derived vocal style and Toussaint’s genius with fluid, soulful horn charts, it really should have been another high-water mark in Cocker’s career. That it only partly succeeds is the disappointment, but with this reissue from Wounded Bird Records, a reappraisal seems in order, and with hindsight, Luxury You Can Afford was much more solid an outing t