After eight years and five studio albums (plus a live album and a best-of album) with Capitol Records,
Joe Cocker moved to 550 Music, a new Sony Music imprint, for
Have a Little Faith. Produced by
Chris Lord-Alge and his manager,
Roger Davies,
Cocker turned in a label debut full of well-chosen songs sung with authority. The title track,
John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me," was a good choice for
Cocker, as it contained that mixture of tenderness and toughness the singer has always brought out so well. Unfortunately, the new label affiliation did nothing for
Cocker;
Have a Little Faith flopped. ~ William Ruhlmann