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Rod Stewart: Unplugged ... and Seated

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1993.05.25
Time:
 69:57
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.rodstewart.com
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Purchase date: 2003.02.03
Price in €: 11,99



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[1] Hot Legs (Grainger/R.Stewart) - 4:26
[2] Tonight's the Night [Gonna Be Alright] (R.Stewart) - 4:05
[3] Handbags and Gladrags (M.D'Abo) - 4:25
[4] Cut Across Shorty (Walker/Wilkin) - 4:58
[5] Every Picture Tells a Story (R.Stewart/R.Wood) - 4:45
[6] Maggie May (Quittenton/R.Stewart) - 6:02
[7] Reason to Believe (Hardin) - 3:50
[8] People Get Ready (Mayfield) - 5:03
[9] Have I Told You Lately (J.Morrison) - 4:04
[10] Tom Traubert's Blues [Waltzing Matilda] (T.Waits) - 4:40
[11] The First Cut Is the Deepest (C.Stevens) - 4:12
[12] Mandolin Wind (R.Stewart) - 5:23
[13] Highgate Shuffle (Public Domain/R.Stewart) - 4:03
[14] Stay With Me (R.Stewart/R.Wood) - 5:17
[15] Having a Party (Cooke) - 4:44

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ROD STEWART - Banjo, Vocals

RON WOOD - Guitar
JEREMY LUBBOCK - Conductor, String Arrangements
JEFF GOLUB - Guitar
JIM CREGAN - Guitar
CHUCK KENTIS - Organ, Piano
PHIL PARLAPIANO - Mandolin, Accordion
DARRYL PHINNESSEE - Background Vocals
CARMINE ROJAS - Bass Guitar
KEVIN SAVIGAR - Organ, Piano, Accordion
DON TESCHNER - Guitar, Mandolin, Violin
DORIAN HOLLEY - Background Vocals
FRED WHITE - Background Vocals

PATRICK LEONARD - Producer
ALEX COLETTI - Producer
AUDREY JOHNS - Producer
MICHAEL OSTIN - Executive Producer
JOEL STILLERMAN - Executive Producer
JERRY JORDAN - Engineer, Mixing
CHARLIE BOUIS - Assistant Engineer
DAVID GALLO - Assistant Engineer
MARC MOREAU - Assistant Engineer
DOUG SAX - Mastering
NEAL PRESTON - Photography
GREG ROSS - Design
MILT LAGE - Director

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1993 CD Warner Brothers 45289-2
1993 CS Warner Brothers 45289-4



The inherent problem with Rod Stewart's Unplugged album is that it seems like a supremely calculated attempt to revive his career exactly as Eric Clapton did. Stewart returns to the acoustic rock & roll and folk that marked his greatest recordings; Ron Wood's supporting guitar is a nice bonus recalling the glory days. Naturally, Unplugged can't hope to match Gasoline Alley or Every Picture Tells a Story, but the amazing thing is how close it comes at times. He sounds fine, if a little bit ragged at first, but as the album progresses, his performances become more genuine and heartfelt, culminating in yet another sublime Tom Waits cover with "Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)," as well as a hit single with Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately?"

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2003 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



This low-key 1993 live retrospective marked something of a return to form for Rod the Mod, who for many years had more or less abdicated his position as a performer of consequence to pursue a more frivolous pop-star persona. With his former Faces bandmate Ron Wood in tow, Stewart revisits hits like "Hot Legs", "Tonight's the Night", and "Maggie May" - and more adventurous choices like Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" and Tom Waits's "Tom Traubert's Blues" - with an effortless grace and a renewed expressiveness that makes Unplugged ... And Seated a consistent pleasure.

Scott Schinder - Amazon.com



Diese zurückhaltende Live-Retrospektive von 1993 war für "Rod the Mod" so etwas wie die Rückkehr zu alter Form und die Abkehr von seinem (viele Jahre gelebten) Dasein als Popstar. Mit seinem alten Bandkollegen Ron Wood (Faces) haucht Rod Hits wie "Hot Legs", "Tonight's the Night" und "Maggie May" neues Leben ein - und wagt sich auch an abenteuerliche Geschichten (wie Curtis Mayfields "People Get Ready" und Tom Waits "Tom Traubert's Blue"), die er mit müheloser Würde und einer wiedergewonnen Ausdrucksstärke meistert, die Unplugged... And Seated durchgängig zu einem Vergnügen macht.

Scott Schinder - Amazon.de



Den besonderen Reiz von Roddy Reibeisens Stimme machte schon immer der Eisengehalt aus; hier scheint's, als hätte er mit einer Extraportion rostiger Reißnägel gegurgelt: So kratzig klang er noch nie. Typisch für sein akustisches 70-Minuten-Set ist das 22 Jahre alte Maggie May. Überhaupt plündert er bevorzugt im älteren Fundus, moderat im folkigen Genre. Doch mit Ron Wood langt er auch mal rockig hin oder bietet Streicher auf. Das alles ist kein Grund, so haltlos zu jubeln wie das Studiopublikum, macht aber als saubere Produktion richtig Laune.

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Unplugged und kein Ende: Auch Rod Stewart hat sein altes Banjo hinter dem Sofa hervorgeholt und ist bei MTV vorstellig geworden, um höchstpersönlich in die Saiten zu greifen ("Mandolin Wind"). Ganz so "unplugged" ging es im Februar dieses Jahres natürlich nicht zu - im Gegenteil: Stewart brachte als Begleitung das vermutlich größte Aufgebot an Musikern mit, das jemals vor den Kammeras des Kabelsenders Platz nahm. Neben einem kompletten Streichorchester und drei Backup-Sängern sind zwei Keyboarder und nicht weniger als vier Saitenvirtuosen zu hören. Deren populärster ist zweifellos Ronnie Wood, "special guest" des Abends und Stewarts Weggefährte aus alten Faces-Zeiten. Mit der Ausnahme von "Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Mathilda)" setzt sich das Songmaterial des Mitschnitts denn auch aus Titeln zusammen, deren Mehrzahl vor gut zwei Jahrzehnten Stewarts Weltruhm begründete. Mit hörbarem Spaß an der Sache und in blendender stimmlicher Verfassung stürmt "Rod The Mod" durch die so betagten wie immergrünen Rocker "Every Picture Tells A Story", "Cut Across Shorty" und "Stay With Me", mit "Handbags And Gladrags" erinnert er an seine Anfänge als Solokünstler. Trotz der akustischen Instrumentierung geht die Post bei diesen Songs so rasant ab wie bei "Hot Legs" und dem größten Hit seiner frühen Tage, "Maggie May". Stewarts Klasse als Sänger wird besonders bei der Interpretation von Balladen deutlich. Hier hat er mit "Tonight's The Night", "People Get Ready" und "The First Cut Is The Deepest" einige Sahnestücke im Programm. Sam Cookes "Having A Party" beschließt eine Konzert-Party, die in dem erfreulichsten Rod-Stewart-Album seit Jahren resultiert. ** Interpret.: 08-09 ** Klang.: 08-09

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Let's start with truth in pack-aging: Rod Stewart's Unplugged ... and Seated is packed to the gills with clichés. It's mostly oldies. It's got a guest star, Stewart's former Faces sidekick Ron Wood. It finds the band pretending there's something special about playing a few rockers on acoustic guitars. It has the star make a few old-guy jokes. It plays things pretty much by the book, in other words, and as such would hardly be worth bothering with save for one thing – the singing. Because no matter how clichéd the format might seem, Stewart puts enough heart into his performance to remind us of what made these songs matter in the first place. Some of it seems to be the spirit of the evening, as Stewart feeds happily off Wood's ragged rhythm work on "Cut Across Shorty" or pulls an almost improvisatory energy from the loose-limbed groove of "Highgate Shuffle." But mostly it's a matter of Stewart's bringing his songs to life in a way few other rockers have ever managed. It's one thing to joke, in "Reason to Believe," that he cut the song when his wife was only a year old, quite another to offer a version of "Maggie May" that leaves the listener believing he really does have to get back to school. Not only does Stewart do both, but he delivers the goods with such grace that it's tempting to ignore the few moments when the album really does come up short. What could be a better reason to believe than that?

J.D. CONSIDINE - RS 659
© Copyright 2002 RollingStone.com
 

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