I love caveman in a top hat Leon Russell wandering around and playing the guitar. He’s not really a guitar player, except he can play it. He’s a piano player. He’s the bandleader here, and you can see him sort of motioning to this player and that to indicate some change of dynamics he’s looking for. It’s one of the most high-powered R&B bands I can imagine. Jim Keltner, Carl Radle, Jim Price, Bobby Keys, etc.

Everyone figured Joe Cocker was just channeling Ray Charles, but there’s more to it than that. I remember some offhand interview with Joe and he scratched his head over that idea, and said he wanted to sing like Long John Baldry, of all people, and it just came out the way it did. Well, Joe got Baldry’s alcoholism and drug abuse angle covered, anyway.

Joe was a gasfitter who decided to sing. He’s a working man. Put him on the working man’s Rushmore, where he belongs. He won’t hold still to pose for it, though.