Warner Bros. Spotlights Stewart's Intimate 1993 Acoustic Performance
ROD STEWART, UNPLUGGED...AND UNFORGETTABLE
Warner Bros. Spotlights Stewart's Intimate 1993 Acoustic Performance
With Remastered Collector's Edition, Including Two Bonus Songs, Plus the
Original Broadcast on DVD for the First Time Ever
Available March 10 From Rhino Records
LOS ANGELES -- More than 20 years after Rod Stewart achieved
superstardom, the shag-topped rocker took to the stage at Universal
Studios in Los Angeles for a performance filmed for MTV's Unplugged
series. The stellar concert featured a reunion with guitarist Ron Wood
-- with whom Stewart played in the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces -- and
resulted in a hit album that peaked at #2 on the Billboard album charts
and contained a Top 10 cover of Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately."
Warner Bros. captures the excitement and emotion of Stewart's ebullient
performance with a Collector's Edition that contains a remastered and
expanded version of the original album. Also included is the DVD debut
of the performance, which aired on MTV but has never been released in
any format. The CD features two songs that did not appear on the
original album. UNPLUGGED. . .AND SEATED will be available March 10 from
all retail outlets, including
http://www.rhino.com.
Recorded February 1993, UNPLUGGED. . .AND SEATED encompasses many of
Stewart's most beloved songs, such as "Maggie May," "Every Picture Tells
A Story," "Tonight's The Night," and "Hot Legs." The Collector's Edition
includes two tracks on the CD not included on the original: "Gasoline
Alley," the B-side of the single "Have I Told You Lately"; and the
previously unissued "Forever Young."
For the performance, Stewart took his position on a stool in the middle
of a small army of musicians -- nine core players, three male backing
vocalists, and a full string section. The intimate setting put the focus
on Stewart and his ability to fully inhabit a song, while also
illuminating the songs that had come to define him; those he'd written
himself ("Mandolin Wind"), and those he'd made his own ("Have I Told You
Lately" written by Van Morrison).
This was a special occasion in another way, marking the reunion of
Stewart and his longtime friend Ron Wood. Since the breakup of the Faces
in 1975, the former partners had seldom performed together, with Wood
joining the Rolling Stones fulltime. Near the end of the show, the duo
lead a spirited version of the Faces' classic rave-up, "Stay With Me,"
that peaks with Stewart jumping off his seat. The show closes with a
triumphant cover of "Having A Party," originally recorded by Sam Cooke,
one of Stewart's idols.
[bigred]Unplugged ... And Seated[/bigred]
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CD 1. Hot Legs
2. Tonight's The Night
3. Handbags And Gladrags
4. Cut Across Shortly
5. Every Picture Tells A Story
6. Maggie May
7. Reason To Believe
8. People Get Ready
9. Have I Told You Lately
10. Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)
11. The First Cut Is The Deepest
12. Mandolin Wind
13. Highgate Shuffle
14. Stay With Me
15. Having A Party
16. Gasoline Alley*
17. Forever Young*
DVD1. Hot Legs
2. Tonight's The Night
3. Cut Across Shortly
4. Reason To Believe
5. Every Picture Tells A Story
6. Maggie May
7. People Get Ready
8. Handbags And Gladrags
9. Have I Told You Lately
10. Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)(DVD)
11. Mandolin Wind
12. Stay With Me
13. Having A Party
* Bonus Tracks
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DMJ9VA/?tag=imwan-20