Joe Cocker – Sheffield Steel (200g, Half Speed Mastering)
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Joe Cocker – lead vocals
Robert Palmer – backing vocals (B3)
Jimmy Cliff – backing vocals (A3)
Robbie Shakespeare – bass, backing vocals (A3)
Wally Badarou – keyboards
Sly Dunbar – drums
Uziah Thompson – percussion
Mikey Chung – guitars (A1-2, A4 to B5)
Barry Reynolds – guitars (A1-2, A4 to B5), backing vocals (B3)
Adrian Belew – guitars (A3)
Written by Leo Nocentelli (A1), Ira Ingber (A2), Gregg Sutton (A2), Andy Fraser (A3), Bob Dylan (A4), Randy Newman (A5), Bill Withers (B1), Melvin Dunlap (B1), Jimmy Cliff (B2), Brenda Russell (B3), Steve Winwood (B4), Will Jennings (B4), Jimmy Webb (B4)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Half Speed Mastering
Heavy Press : 200g SuperVinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : unspecified
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Island Records
Recorded at Compass Point Studio, Nassau, Bahamas
Engineered by Alex Sadkin, Benji Armbrister
Produced by Alex Sadkin, Chris Blackwell
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound Studios New York City
Originally released in May 1982
Reissued in February April 1995
Tracks :
Side A:
- Look What You've Done
- Shocked
- Sweet Little Woman
- Seven Days
- Marie
Side B:
- Ruby Lee
- Many Rivers To Cross
- So Good, So Right
- Talking Back To The Night
- Just Like Always
Reviews :
“After his one-album stint at Asylum Records with Luxury You Can Afford in 1978, Joe Cocker was without a record label until 1981, when he signed to Island Records. Island head Chris Blackwell took him to the Compass Point studios in the Bahamas, where he recorded a 12" single, "Sweet Little Woman"/"Look What You've Done," released in May 1981, then continued working on a full-length album. When that album, Sheffield Steel, appeared a year later, listeners could be forgiven for imagining, during the instrumental portions, that they were hearing not a Joe Cocker disc, but rather a Robert Palmer record. The instrumentalists were the Compass Point All-Stars, led by drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare, and including keyboard player Wally Badarou and guitarist Barry Reynolds, and they maintained a steady tropical groove on most tracks that strongly recalled their work on Palmer's series of albums. Typically, however, Cocker made his own a group of high-quality songs from major songwriters. Bob Dylan's "Seven Days" was an obscure tune only previously heard in a 1979 recording by Ron Wood. Cocker succeeded with Randy Newman's "Marie" as he would again four years later with the songwriter's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" by singing it without any of the irony Newman's version contained. Cocker got a jump on what would be the title track to Steve Winwood's next album, "Talking Back to the Night," and he approached Jimmy Webb's "Just Like Always" with delicacy. The result was an effective album, if, once again, a one-off effort since Cocker, his career rejuvenated by the success of the movie theme "Up Where We Belong," quickly decamped for Capitol.” AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
Allmusic : 3.5 / 5 , Discogs :