Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart has one of those voices that shouldn’t really work for a singer. He’s got a rough edge to his sound. It is the fact that he can sing in tune, and has a knack for meaningful phrasing, that has kept Stewart working successfully all these years. The rough edge of the voice reminds us that a genuine human is sharing his musical love with us (unlike other singers, whose over-processed and perfectly smoothed-out voices might as well be synthesized).
In this collection, Stewart gives us fresh renderings of several classic rock standards. “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”, “Still the Same” and others have both the familiarity of their long history and also a re-energized freshness by being delivered by a singer who knows them well and loves them. Oh, most certainly, Stewart is “Still the Same.” And that “Same” is good.
