Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings 1969-1974 (2002)

Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings 1969-1974 (2002)
3CD | EAC Rip | APE(trope) + CUE + LOG | 3h 46min | Complete Scans | 1.41 GB
Genre: Rock | Label: Mercury Records

Back in 1969, Rod Stewart's take up again included a stint as Jeff Beck's singer. He'd besides just joined the Faces, who dropped the "Small" from their remembrance> when Stewart and Ron Wood signed on as members. But his raucous, graveled rasp shone best that year as he took on covers of the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" and Ewan McColl's "Dirty Old Town" ~ward his solo debut. As this three-CD set thoroughly demonstrates, Stewart was like Joe Cocker in that he crossed boundaries effortlessly, integrating a in liquor, acoustic-backed sway with an R&B churn and creating a unused rock sound that captured the fancy of fans on both sides of the Atlantic. He picked with Every Picture Tells a Story's title track; the folkie, soulful "Maggie May"; and the vituperation-dropping "(I Know) I'm Losing You." With those 1971 hits, he arrived replete-blown as a sequin-ready superstar. His Mercury period ended in 1974 by Smiler, and this set trails off with that album and five tracks previously unreleased in the U.S.
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THE ROD STEWART ALBUM (Mercury SR-61237) 1969
01. Street Fighting Man (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) 5:06
02. Man Of Constant Sorrow (Rod Stewart) 2:31
03. Blind Prayer (Rod Stewart) 4:36
04. Handbags And Gladrags (Mike D'Abo) 4:24
05. An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Rod Stewart) 3:04
06. I Woulgn't Ever Change A Thing (Rod Stewart) 4:43
07. Cindy,s Lament (Rod Stewart) 4:25
08. Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl) 3:37Download Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings 1969-1974 (2002) (Rapidshare):

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