By 1972, Rod Stewart had achieved what few frontmen up to that point had by becoming a hugely successful solo artists while still fronting a band, the Faces.\u00a0 His first two solo LPs were critically acclaimed but failed to set the world on fire.\u00a0 His third solo release, Every Picture Tells A Story<\/i>, though, changed all that as it rocketed to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and even down under.\u00a0 So while the Faces were slowly coming apart at the seams during each tour, Rod carried on working and in July of \u201872 dropped his fourth studio album, the brilliant Never A Dull Moment<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
All the Faces guys were again called in to play on most tracks, and Rod selected a few session men and special guests to join the party, too.\u00a0 The result was, of course, another success with Stewart scoring his second consecutive US chart topper.\u00a0 Stewart produced the album himself as he did with his previous effort, and it seems the main theme here was to just have as much fun as possible and make a more laidback disc than he had done before.\u00a0 There\u2019s a great swagger to this record that was more in line with a Faces gig than a carefully crafted Stewart album, and for that very reason, this record is just as enjoyable as Every Picture Tells A Story<\/i>, <\/i>even if the songs may not be as instantly memorable.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The album gets off to a flyer with the Stones-esque<\/i> opener \u201cTrue Blue,\u201d which is the first of three songs penned by Rod and Ronnie Wood for the album.\u00a0 The second Stewart\/Wood composition (\u201cLost Paraguayos\u201d) harbors another bluesy groove and finds Rod bidding farewell to an unfortunate lass.\u00a0 Their third contribution is a great boozy rocker that again revolves around having a good time in as many ways as possible with \u201cItalian Girls.\u201d\u00a0 The Stewart original that helped this record shift units by the ton though remains one of his finest moments and a great reminder of what a brilliant songwriter this guy used to be.\u00a0 \u201cYou Wear It Well\u201d is a classic song and it proves that Stewart was always at his best when he wrote his own stuff.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
As well as some choice originals, this record also contains some inspired covers that all work very well.\u00a0 Dylan\u2019s \u201cMama, You\u2019ve Been On My Mind\u201d is a great tune for Rod, and his version here is far superior to the writer\u2019s own.\u00a0 Hendrix\u2019 \u201cAngel\u201d sounds fantastic as well, but both are almost upstaged by the blistering cover of Sam Cooke\u2019s (Rod\u2019s idol) \u201cTwistin\u2019 The Night Away\u201d that closes out the record in style.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d Rather Go Blind\u201d will always be owned by the great Etta James, but Rod again gives an inspired performance that does it justice.\u00a0 He really could do no wrong at this point of his career as he was able to interpret just about any style of song to make it work for himself and fit with his own material.\u00a0 That is definitely one of the main reasons that Stewart was able to create a string a classic albums throughout the \u201870s, and Never A Dull Moment <\/i>is clearly one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":30591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6031],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-42259","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-rod-stewart","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42259"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}