180g Vinyl Double Gatefold LP! First Set Of Originals Since 2001! Includes "She Makes Me Happy", "Finest Woman" & "It's Over"!
Rod Stewart is a musical icon with a career spanning four plus decades. He is one of the biggest selling artists of all time with worldwide sales of over 100 million albums. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Stewart has 4 number one albums in the US and 6 in the UK. In the US he has had 16 top 10 singles with 4 number ones on the Billboard Hot 100. Rod is a Grammy winner, Brit winner and a 2x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Following his 2012 release, Merry Christmas Baby, Time is a very intimate album with 11 of the 12 songs written and produced by Rod himself. The songs come from important moments in his career and personal life.
"Just a good, old-fashioned Rod Stewart album (with) a lot of mandolin and acoustic (guitar) and fiddles and good storytelling, I believe, too." - as told to Billboard by Rod Stewart himself. Following an industry preview March 7, 2013, Stewart's self-assessment seems accurate.
At 68, following a slew of cover albums, Stewart returns true to form - rockin' his warm vocals as strong as ever with hook-heavy tunes.
The themes on "Time" are "a little more adult now," says Stewart. "There's no 'Hot Legs.' But they're, I think, songs people can relate to."
"Stewart has acknowledged losing his songwriting muse over the past 20 years, but rediscovered the spark while reviewing his life for his recent memoir: "Suddenly ideas for lyrics were piling up in my head," he said in a statement. "Next thing I knew, I had a song called 'It's Over' about divorce and separation. And now I was getting up in the middle of the night and scrambling for a pen to write things down, which has never happened to me. I finished seven or eight songs very quickly and I still wasn't done and it became apparent that I would eventually have a whole album of material to record, which had never happened before." - rollingstone.com
"Eleven of the 12 Time songs are Stewart co-writes, the most he has ever done on one album... [W]hile poring over his past, the songs started coming to him, and, yes, they do reflect on times, places and people he has known. Rod sings splendidly throughout, truly pouring his heart out in his new songs. There's a commitment here I haven't heard in his voice for many years... The performances are strong throughout and offer very nice variety... Rod truly reclaims his stature in the rock world... [H]e still sounds like the everyman persona people came to love in him. It is a triumphant album... [T]horoughly fun and a most worthy addition to the Rod Stewart classics on my shelf... Time shows he is still a vital artist and in top form as well!" - Michael Tearson, The Audiophile Voice, Vol. 15, No. 6, pgs. 17-18
Features:
180g Vinyl
Double Gatefold LP
Selections:
LP1 - Side A:
1. She Makes Me Happy
2. Can't Stop Me Now
3. It's Over
LP1 - Side B:
1. Brighton Beach
2. Beautiful Morning
3. Live the Life
LP2 - Side C:
1. Finest Woman
2. Time
3. Picture In A Frame
LP2 - Side D:
1. Sexual Religion
2. Make Love To Me Tonight
3. Pure Love
Rod Stewart is a musical icon with a career spanning four plus decades. He is one of the biggest selling artists of all time with worldwide sales of over 100 million albums. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list.
Stewart has 4 number one albums in the US and 6 in the UK. In the US he has had 16 top 10 singles with 4 number ones on the Billboard Hot 100. Rod is a Grammy winner, Brit winner and a 2x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Following his 2012 release, Merry Christmas Baby, Time is a very intimate album with 11 of the 12 songs written and produced by Rod himself. The songs come from important moments in his career and personal life.
"Just a good, old-fashioned Rod Stewart album (with) a lot of mandolin and acoustic (guitar) and fiddles and good storytelling, I believe, too." - as told to Billboard by Rod Stewart himself. Following an industry preview March 7, 2013, Stewart's self-assessment seems accurate.
At 68, following a slew of cover albums, Stewart returns true to form - rockin' his warm vocals as strong as ever with hook-heavy tunes.
The themes on "Time" are "a little more adult now," says Stewart. "There's no 'Hot Legs.' But they're, I think, songs people can relate to."
"Stewart has acknowledged losing his songwriting muse over the past 20 years, but rediscovered the spark while reviewing his life for his recent memoir: "Suddenly ideas for lyrics were piling up in my head," he said in a statement. "Next thing I knew, I had a song called 'It's Over' about divorce and separation. And now I was getting up in the middle of the night and scrambling for a pen to write things down, which has never happened to me. I finished seven or eight songs very quickly and I still wasn't done and it became apparent that I would eventually have a whole album of material to record, which had never happened before." - rollingstone.com
"Eleven of the 12 Time songs are Stewart co-writes, the most he has ever done on one album... [W]hile poring over his past, the songs started coming to him, and, yes, they do reflect on times, places and people he has known. Rod sings splendidly throughout, truly pouring his heart out in his new songs. There's a commitment here I haven't heard in his voice for many years... The performances are strong throughout and offer very nice variety... Rod truly reclaims his stature in the rock world... [H]e still sounds like the everyman persona people came to love in him. It is a triumphant album... [T]horoughly fun and a most worthy addition to the Rod Stewart classics on my shelf... Time shows he is still a vital artist and in top form as well!" - Michael Tearson, The Audiophile Voice, Vol. 15, No. 6, pgs. 17-18
Features:
180g Vinyl
Double Gatefold LP
Selections:
LP1 - Side A:
1. She Makes Me Happy
2. Can't Stop Me Now
3. It's Over
LP1 - Side B:
1. Brighton Beach
2. Beautiful Morning
3. Live the Life
LP2 - Side C:
1. Finest Woman
2. Time
3. Picture In A Frame
LP2 - Side D:
1. Sexual Religion
2. Make Love To Me Tonight
3. Pure Love
