{"id":9858,"date":"2013-05-08T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:41:43","slug":"rod-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/rod-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"ROD STEWART"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rod-Stewart-M-Review-No26\"ROD STEWART<\/h1>\n

Time<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

[Capitol]<\/p>\n

After a decade of lucrative, critically unloved covers records\u2014five Great American Songbook sets, plus collections of rock and soul chestnuts\u2014Rod Stewart has finally gone back to writing songs. The impetus, he\u2019s said, was his 2012 autobiography, which got him thinking back, taking stock, and basically doing what rock stars do when they research a certain age. With Time<\/i>, the 68-year-old superstar sings his life in 12 tracks, telling the tale of a self-described \u201cscruffy, beat-up working class teenage troubadour\u201d that makes it big, lives it up, marries a model, weathers a painful divorce, and finds peace in the end.<\/p>\n

We all know the story, and while there are some revealing moments\u2014the acoustic ballad \u201cBrighton Beach\u201d is about the daughter he fathered at 17 and gave up for adoption\u2014Stewart isn\u2019t trying to bum anyone out with true confessions. Opener and lead single \u201cShe Makes Me Happy\u201d skips to the ending, and as Rod sings over mandolin, accordion and crisp electric guitar\u2014classic elements of his sound, presented here and elsewhere with maximum polish\u2014we know it\u2019s a happy one. His wooly rug of a voice has lost a few threads, but he proves sufficiently soulful, even when mired in clich\u00e9 (the title track) or sentimentality (\u201cPure Love\u201d). On EDM-lite outlier \u201cSexual Religion,\u201d he lands somewhere between his \u201970s disco diversions and Cher\u2019s \u201cBelieve,\u201d rasping away about how his new missus rocks his world. \u201cI\u2019m in real deep this time,\u201d he sings, just before the cruise-ship sax kicks in. He\u2019s been here before. He\u2019ll be fine. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n

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ROD STEWART Time [Capitol] After a decade of lucrative, critically unloved covers records\u2014five Great American Songbook sets, plus collections of rock and soul chestnuts\u2014Rod Stewart has finally gone back to writing songs. The impetus, he\u2019s said, was his 2012 autobiography, which got him thinking back, taking stock, and basically doing what rock stars do when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,514,6467,6544,6545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}