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Redeeming Rod: Once in a Blue Moon
A lost Rod Stewart album...from the '90s? It's gotta be awful, right? Not so fast, says Matthew Bolin
Read More »Redeeming Rod: Soulbook, the Faces, and Further Nails in the Coffin
One minute, twenty-two seconds. That’s how long Rod Stewart’s new album, Soulbook, actually gave me some hope that it might be something more than the latest in a series of cash-grab albums that started
Read More »Redeeming Rod: The Faces Reunion
As you may have heard by now, Rod Stewart confirmed last week that all the surviving members of his old band, the Faces (including current Rolling Stone Ron Wood and former Who drummer Kenny
Read More »Redeeming Rod: “Broken Arrow” (1991)
Rod Stewart’s 1991 cover of Robbie Robertson’s “Broken Arrow” (download) is perhaps the biggest hit that I’ll cover in my series. The third single off of Rod’s Vagabond Heart album, “Broken Arrow” peaked at
Read More »Redeeming Rod: “Leave Virginia Alone” (1995)
The first single from Rod Stewart’s album A Spanner in the Works, the Tom Petty composition “Leave Virgina Alone,” could be considered his first single in a very long time so greatly aligned with
Read More »Redeeming Rod: “If We Fall in Love Tonight” (1996)
In 1996, Rod Stewart released a collection of his ballads over the years, entitled If We Fall In Love Tonight. Or rather, Warner Brothers released this album, probably based partly on the fact that
Read More »Redeeming Rod: “Twistin’ the Night Away” (1987)
Hollywood, 1986. Fade in. The scene is an executive’s office. Exec: So what’s the pitch? Producer: Okay, Martin Short is this bumbling dude, okay? And somehow, he gets stuck with this needle, only the
Read More »Reedeeming Rod: “People Get Ready” (1985)
One of the initial comments I received the on first “Redeeming Rod” guessed the subject matter of this post, so I guess I can take relief in the existence of actual humans who have
Read More »Redeeming Rod: Prologue
Welcome to the first in a series of posts designed to promote the music of Rod Stewart from the 1980s and onward. We begin by….Wait….where are you going? Print
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