VIA PRESS RELEASE | Relive two legendary musical moments through the lens of legendary rock photographer Linda Wolf: 1970’s Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour and the tour’s tribute concert at the 2015 Lockn’ Festival, led by the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Tribute: Cocker Power features exclusive, never-before-seen documentary photos, stories, and vignettes from both the Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour, known as one of the greatest rock-and-roll tours of all time, and the 2015 tribute concert at the Lockn’ Festival led by the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Leon Russell and original Tour alumni. This visually stunning volume, released on the 50th Anniversary of the Tour, includes contributions from over one hundred musicians and crew members, including Denny Cordell, Leon Russell, Chris Stainton, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Warren Haynes and many more.
A true labor of love to all who played a part in these exceptional times in the history of music and culture, and to everyone, collectively, who played their part in making it all happen, Tribute: Cocker Power is a must-have for devoted fans and newcomers alike.
“How to describe the Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour? A two-month traveling hippie circus that left hotel managers tearing their hair out, concert promoters screaming about a dog on stage, girls dancing naked on the rooftops of a New York city hotel, and forty-three people, including three kids and a five-person film crew, traveling together on a private jet that had COCKER POWER painted on its side. It was pure art and one of the greatest rock-and-roll tours of all time. Five decades later, the Tedeschi Trucks band took us back to the stage, honoring the legacy of Mad Dogs and Englishmen with one of the most powerful tribute concerts ever. This book is in honor of it all,” said Linda Wolf.
Linda Wolf is a humanistic photographer, known for her global portraiture that focuses on women and indigenous cultures. Over her fifty years as an artist, she has moved seamlessly through being one of the first female rock and roll photographers, to photojournalism and fine art, street and portrait photography.
Her work is part of numerous collections in institutions, libraries, and museums worldwide. Linda is the co-founder of the Daughters Sisters Project and founder of Teen Talking Circles, a Washington nonprofit whose mission is to educate, inspire and empower young women and men through creating safe spaces for youth to speak their truth and foster healthy relationships between the genders, generations and cultures.
