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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:16 pm 
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‘I always think I make albums for a few friends and this record has that intimacy, I hope,’ Sir Rod Stewart says of his 30th solo studio album, Blood Red Roses. ‘Sincerity and honesty go a long way in life and the same is true in song-writing.’

This deeply personal collection of recently-written Stewart originals, with the added bonus of three superb new covers, is simply peak Rod. Blood Red Roses is a great bunch of songs presented, with a winning flourish, in Stewart’s unmistakable style.

Love, loss, longing, and addiction are all examined in Stewart’s enviable everyman manner, tempered with a master-craftsman’s attention to nuance and detail.

The universally-loved voice, tough and tender in equal measure, is in superb shape. James Brown’s claim that Rod Stewart is the world’s ‘best white soul singer’ still stands.

A knight of the realm since 2016, double-inductee to the Rock’n’roll Hall Of Fame, winner of a Grammy and ASCAP song-writing awards, Rod Stewart’s 50-plus year career has amassed sales of more than 200 million albums and won him lifelong fans worldwide.

But perhaps more importantly, despite the accolades and the staggering global success, Rod remains one of us.

We are more than familiar with Rod Stewart’s singing voice, the wonderfully warm rasp that has sound-tracked our lives but the voice of Rod Stewart, the songwriter, has been frustratingly fitful over the years.

He has, of course, put his name to more than his share of stone-cold classics: Maggie May, The Killing Of Georgie, You Wear It Well, I Was Only Joking, Young Turks but he freely admits that the muse has sometimes proved elusive.

‘But once I finished my autobiography a few years ago the gates just opened,’ he acknowledges. ‘That was a turning point.’

Safe to say, on Blood Red Roses, inspiration has returned in full and the creative juices, and songs, have been flowing. The new songs fearlessly address life’s thornier issues from first infatuation to our final words to a friend, and all the agonies and ecstasies along the way.

Tracklist
1. Look In Her Eyes
2. Hole In My Heart
3. Farewell
4. Didn’t I [feat. Bridget Cady]
5. Blood Red Roses
6. Grace
7. Give Me Love
8. Rest Of My Life
9. Rollin’ & Tumblin’
10. Julia
11. Honey Gold
12. Vegas Shuffle
13. Cold Old London [feat. Bridget Cady]
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
14. Who Designed The Snowflake (Paddy McAloon penned)
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. I Don’t Want To Get Married

Standard Edition
TBA

Deluxe Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FLGJWKB/?tag=imwan-20


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:16 pm 
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Details can change of course but that's the working title. Rod says 11 originals and a Prefab Sprout song ( possibly Who Invented the snowflake?).
Kevin Savigar involved again.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:23 pm 
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my RS collection is limited to a nice anthology, and a few individual albums.
the inclusion of a Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout) track would make this an automatic purchase for me.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:42 pm 
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Is "Blood Red Roses" a cover of the Uriah Heep song if there's a title track?

I highly doubt it, but it could be done by Rod actually.

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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:01 am 
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I don't know the Uriah Heep song, but there is an old sea shanty named "Blood Red Roses". It's been recorded many times, and was featured being sung in John Huston's1956 filming of Moby Dick.


Our boots and clothes is all in pawn
Go down, you blood red roses, go down!
And its flamin' drafty 'round Cape Horn,
Go down, you blood red roses, go down!
Oh, you pinks and posies,
Go down, you blood red roses, go down!

It's 'round that cape we all must go
Around all stiff through the frost and snow.
Oh my old mother, she wrote to me,
My dearest son, come home from sea.
It's growl you may, but go you must,
If you growl too hard your head they'll bust.
Just one more pull and that will do
For we're the boys to kick her through.

That may appeal to Rod, especially the last few lines.

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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:43 pm 
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RackleNut wrote:
my RS collection is limited to a nice anthology, and a few individual albums.
the inclusion of a Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout) track would make this an automatic purchase for me.


Rod has said he has done a McAloon song called "Who invented the snowflake?"...but maybe he has done another because that sounds lihe a Christmas album track.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 2:26 pm 
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Two tracks debuted live this week..."Hole in my heart" and the old Irish ballad "Grace"....they are in youtube somewhere..


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:38 am 
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Sept 28th release apparently.

Titles recorded include..
who designed the snowflake
hole in my heart
grace
priceless
Vegas shuffle
Honey gold
Rollin and tumblin..

..not all will make the final cut as he says they have alot of tracks.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:33 pm 
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Bbc radio 2 tmrw morn after 8am...world exclusive of new single.

Uncut magazine...new unterview..out tmrw also.

Fingers crossed for a good album..


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:28 am 
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I've moved the release details up into the first post. Here's the first single, "Didn't I":


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:00 pm 
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rs4951 wrote:
Fingers crossed for a good album..

very tightly.....:)

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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:03 am 
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Apparently "Priceless", an original left off the album will appear as a bonus in Target.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
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rs4951 wrote:
Apparently "Priceless", an original left off the album will appear as a bonus in Target.


Hopefully that will be along with the deluxe edition tracks. Hoping this one will hew closer to "Time" than "Another Country"...


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
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I like the new song, btw.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:50 pm 
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David Baker wrote:
I like the new song, btw.

It is good ...as is Grace.


David Baker wrote:
rs4951 wrote:
Apparently "Priceless", an original left off the album will appear as a bonus in Target.


Hopefully that will be along with the deluxe edition tracks. Hoping this one will hew closer to "Time" than "Another Country"...


It will be...all 17 songs on the Target version.


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:16 am 
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Single Didn't I made AC chart #10 and next track Look in her eyes had first play on BBC R2 yesterday...uptempo...good hook but some clunky lyrics. Sounds like mix between his Human stuff and Cher's Believe..


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 Post subject: [2018-09-28] Rod Stewart "Blood Red Roses" (Decca)
PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:52 am 
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BRR has hit UK#1.
Not as immediate as Time was, but growing on me with each play.
Honey Gold is a real highlight beyond the three singles so far.

The Target bonus track, Priceless, is a bit of fun too.

The man is just happy, it shows, and makes this a hard-to-resist earworm, even when acknowledging its imperfections.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 8:56 pm 
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Got to hear this tonight, but I was doing stuff so it was sorta of background BUT what I heard I was very happy with. Will give it another spin tomorrow where I can better focus..

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