Rod Stewart - 2018 - Blood Red Roses (Deluxe) (HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: Rod Stewart
Title: Blood Red Roses (Deluxe) (HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 16 files FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 44.1kHz, HDtracks
Producer: Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Recorded: 2018
Label: Republic Records (i)
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock, Rock And Roll, R&B, White Soul
Duration: 62:53
Rod Stewart:
Wikipedia:
Sir Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. He has had six consecutive number one albums in the UK and his tally of 62 UK hit singles includes 31 that reached the top ten, six of which gained the #1 position. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and the early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group, and then with Faces, though his music career had begun in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In October 1963, he joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player and part-time vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars, and in August, Stewart signed a solo contract, releasing his first single, "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", in October. He maintained a solo career alongside a group career, releasing his debut solo album, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down in 1969. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B.
From the late 1970s through the 1990s, Stewart's music often took on a new wave or soft rock/middle-of-the-road quality, and in the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists". A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces.
Blood Red Roses (Deluxe):
Amazon Review:
‘I always think I make albums for a few friends and this record has that intimacy, I hope,’ Sir Rod Stewart says of his 30th solo studio album, Blood Red Roses. ‘Sincerity and honesty go a long way in life and the same is true in song-writing.’
This deeply personal collection of recently-written Stewart originals, with the added bonus of three superb new covers, is simply peak Rod. Blood Red Roses is a great bunch of songs presented, with a winning flourish, in Stewart’s unmistakable style.
Love, loss, longing, and addiction are all examined in Stewart’s enviable everyman manner, tempered with a master-craftsman’s attention to nuance and detail.
The universally-loved voice, tough and tender in equal measure, is in superb shape. James Brown’s claim that Rod Stewart is the world’s ‘best white soul singer’ still stands.
A knight of the realm since 2016, double-inductee to the Rock’n’roll Hall Of Fame, winner of a Grammy and ASCAP song-writing awards, Rod Stewart’s 50-plus year career has amassed sales of more than 200 million albums and won him lifelong fans worldwide.
But perhaps more importantly, despite the accolades and the staggering global success, Rod remains one of us.
We are more than familiar with Rod Stewart’s singing voice, the wonderfully warm rasp that has sound-tracked our lives but the voice of Rod Stewart, the songwriter, has been frustratingly fitful over the years.
He has, of course, put his name to more than his share of stone-cold classics: Maggie May, The Killing Of Georgie, You Wear It Well, I Was Only Joking, Young Turks but he freely admits that the muse has sometimes proved elusive.
‘But once I finished my autobiography a few years ago the gates just opened,’ he acknowledges. ‘That was a turning point.’
Safe to say, on Blood Red Roses, inspiration has returned in full and the creative juices, and songs, have been flowing. The new songs fearlessly address life’s thornier issues from first infatuation to our final words to a friend, and all the agonies and ecstasies along the way.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Rod Stewart made a ballyhooed returned to songwriting in 2013 when he released Time, a collection of songs inspired by his 2012 memoir Rod: The Autobiography. Stewart's reinvigorated muse wasn't a fleeting thing. Blood Red Roses is the second sequel to Time (the fine Another Country appeared in 2015) and, like its progenitor, it's billed as a "personal" project. "Personal" is usually code for introspection, but that's an adjective that simply doesn't describe Blood Red Roses, even if it is undeniably a record that's personal, reflecting precisely where Rod Stewart is in 2018, right down to how he dedicates a song to a city he's worked in for several years. That would be "Vegas Shuffle," a bright and garish rocker devoted to the pleasures of Sin City which Stewart sings with an evident smile. His grin never wanes on Blood Red Roses, nor does the bright, garish blare -- a digital sheen masterminded by his co-producer and frequent co-writer Kevin Savigar. The pair collaborated long distance on Blood Red Roses and the transatlantic gap can be heard in how the rhythms are all tightly sequenced and the polish is so bright, it gleams. Such high-end digital sensibilities can sometimes not suit Stewart's musical inclinations, particularly when he dives into high-energy folk ("Blood Red Roses") or blues (a spangly cover of "Rollin' & Tumblin'," a standard popularized by Muddy Waters), yet that shine is also the appeal of Blood Red Roses, as it feels like an authentic reflection of a 73-year-old man who spends time reminiscing about the past as he does putting on lavish modern shows. These two sides of Stewart co-exist on Blood Red Roses: he salutes a dear departed friend on "Farewell," acts the concerned parent on "Didn't I," and smiles warmly about an old groupie on "Honey Gold," then he revives disco on "Give Me Love" and indulges in a Tamla/Motown bounce on "Rest of My Life," but he also makes sure that his two opening tracks -- "Look in Her Eyes" and "Hole in My Heart" -- pulse to an EDM beat. Stewart's adoption of modern trends may not be especially graceful but it's oddly endearing, and underscores how, tackiness and all, Blood Red Roses is indeed a personal record, capturing the snazzy life of an aging old sap who to this day has never seen a dull moment.
Tracklist:
01. Look In Her Eyes - 4:13
02. Hole In My Heart - 3:27
03. Farewell - 4:18
04. Didn't I - 4:01
05. Blood Red Roses - 3:41
06. Grace - 4:53
07. Give Me Love - 4:08
08. Rest Of My Life - 3:28
09. Rollin' & Tumblin' - 3:38
10. Julia - 3:36
11. Honey Gold - 4:44
12. Vegas Shuffle - 3:47
13. Cold Old London - 3:42
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks
14. Who Designed The Snowflake - 3:07
15. It Was A Very Good Year - 5:06
16. I Don’t Want To Get Married - 3:12
Personnel:
Rod Stewart - Primary Artist
Bridget Cady - Guest Artists
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