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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. Can I Get a Witness? (With Steampacket)
3. Shake - (with Brian Auger & The Trinity)
4. So Much to Say
5. Little Miss Understood
6. I've Been Drinking (With Jeff Beck Group)
7. I Ain't Superstitious (With Jeff Beck Group)
8. Shapes of Things (With Jeff Beck Group)
9. In a Broken Dream (With Python Lee Jackson)
10. Street Fighting Man
11. Handbags and Gladrags
12. Gasoline Alley
13. Cut Across Shorty
14. Country Comforts
15. It's All Over Now
16. Sweet Lady Mary - (with The Faces)
17. Had Me a Real Good Time (With Faces)
DISC 2:
1. Maggie May
2. Mandolin Wind
3. I'm Losing You (I Know)
4. Reason to Believe
5. Every Picture Tells a Story
6. Stay With Me (With Faces)
7. True Blue
8. Angel
9. You Wear It Well
10. I'd Rather Go Blind
11. Twistin' the Night Away
12. What's Made Milwaukee Famous
13. Oh No, Not My Baby
14. Pinball Wizard
15. Let Me Be Your Car (With Elton John)
16. You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything With Faces)
DISC 3:
1. Sailing
2. I Don't Want to Talk About It
3. Stone Cold Sober
4. To Love Somebody - (with Booker T. & The MG's)
5. Tonight's the Night
6. First Cut Is Deepest, The
7. Killing of Georgie, The (Part 1 & 2)
8. Get Back
9. Hot Legs
10. I Was Only Joking
11. You're in My Heart
12. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
13. Passion
14. Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight
15. Tonight I'm Yours
DISC 4:
1. Young Turks
2. Baby Jane
3. What Am I Gonna Do (I'm So in Love With You)
4. People Get Ready - (with Jeff Beck)
5. Some Guys Have All the Luck
6. Infatuation
7. Love Touch
8. Every Beat of My Heart
9. Lost in You
10. My Heart Can't Tell You No
11. Dynamite
12. Crazy About Her
13. Forever Young
14. I Don't Want to Talk About It - (1989)
15. This Old Heart of Mine - (with Ronald Isley)
16. Downtown Train
Album Notes
Contains 65 tracks including 3 new songs. It also includes a 24 page book with a running commentary on each track by Rod Stewart plus 8 pages direct from his own scrapbook.
Personnel includes: Rod Stewart (vocals); Brian Auger & The Trinity, Jeff Beck, The Faces, Elton John, Booker T. & The MG's, Ronald Isley.
This appropriately named 4-CD box set follows all the highs and lows of Rod Stewart's career, featuring song-by-song annotations provided by the man himself. Starting back in 1964 with a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," Stewart spent most of the '60s looking for a break in the music business. With his raspy voice and emotional delivery, it made perfect sense that some of his earliest songs were soul covers ("Shake," "Can I Get A Witness."). After singing with former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck and sowing the seeds of heavy metal, Stewart fronted the Faces, all the while forging a distinctive sound thanks to his melding of soul, country, blues & rock and roll.
In the late '70s, Stewart's music slowly gravitated towards disco, leading to "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?," the song many point to as his nadir. For all the gripes, Stewart continued pouring his all into whatever he sang, whether it was a great cover (Tom Waits' "Downtown Train") or a storytelling original ("Young Turks"). STORYTELLER offers all this and a number of previously unreleased songs that include a session featuring Stewart fronting Booker T. & The MG s right before drummer Al Jackson's tragic death ("To Love Somebody").
Industry Reviews
3.5 Stars - Very Good - ...a box set with balls ....performs a valuable service by separating the wheat from the chaff in Stewart's wildly erratic oeuvre...Rod Stewart is rock & roll royalty...
Rolling Stone (01/11/1990)
Goldmine Highly Recommended ...a far reaching compilation....covers the weird, the mediocre, and the wonderful, with the latter being in greatest supply...
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