{"id":973474,"date":"2019-11-13T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911007"},"modified":"2019-11-13T08:59:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:59:22","slug":"rod-stewart-im-trying-to-put-together-a-country-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/rod-stewart-im-trying-to-put-together-a-country-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart: \u2018I\u2019m Trying to Put Together a Country Record\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RodStewart.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rod-stewart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rod-stewart\" data-tag=\"rod-stewart\">Rod Stewart<\/a> is still weeks away from the release of his new symphonic LP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rod-stewart-orchestral-lp-908906\/\"><em>You\u2019re in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra<\/em><\/a>, but he\u2019s already looking ahead to his next record. \u201cI\u2019m trying to put together a country record,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cNot just country music, but folk music and older stuff I was brought up on. It\u2019s an opportunity to let people hear another side of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t picked out the exact songs he wants to record on the LP yet, but he\u2019s eying the deeply obscure 1963 Bob Dylan studio outtake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6_w2z4vi3ww\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWalls of Red Wing\u201d<\/a> alongside Willie Nelson covers and a few Irish Uprising folk songs. \u201cI want to do songs that aren\u2019t necessarily catchy,\u201d he says, \u201cbut have the most wonderful lyrics. One reason I want to do it is because my wife says she always loves it when I do my acoustic set in concert because she can really hear me sing as opposed to the rock &amp; roll stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went back to some of his earliest rock roots in late September when he reunited with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jeff-beck\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeff-beck\" data-tag=\"jeff-beck\">Jeff Beck<\/a> for a special show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It was the first time the former Jeff Beck Group bandmates had played together since a surprise two-song set at L.A.\u2019s El Rey Theater in 2009. They did five songs this time, including some they hadn\u2019t done in decades like \u201cMorning Dew,\u201d \u201cBlues Deluxe\u201d and \u201cRock My Plimsoll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was everything I wanted it to be and, I think, everything that Jeff wanted it to be,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cThe sound we get with just his guitar and my voice is quite remarkable. We filled the room. I sort of stood back and didn\u2019t do any of my jumping around onstage. I wanted it to be his evening and I think it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nE1Ho_F8lsk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stewart says they kept rehearsals to a bare minimum even though Beck had to adjust the songs to accommodate Rod\u2019s current singing voice. \u201cNo singer can sing as high as they did 40 or 50 years ago,\u201d he says. \u201cThe voice naturally drops a little bit. Mine has only dropped a half a tone, but he had to learn things he knew in new keys. All the keys I was singing in were not great for the guitar, but he did it anyway and he sounded fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No more shows with Beck are in the works, however, as Stewart remains on the road with a run of UK arenas the month, a long string of Las Vegas shows throughout 2020 and an Australian tour that fall. He\u2019s also having his right knee replaced in January, which will force him to work hard to be back in touring shape for the Vegas kickoff on March 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of that, he still think it\u2019s possible that next year he\u2019ll find the time to play another show or two with Beck. Recording a new album with him, however, is a very different situation. They tried about a decade ago and abandoned the project very quickly. \u201cWe\u2019ve got opinions that don\u2019t seem to blend somehow, my idea of what an album should be and his,\u201d he says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work. We both want to take the helm, so one of us has to stand down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he says this, an idea flashes into his head. \u201cI just though of this,\u201d he says. \u201cThe answer to that would be to find a producer. And then we can just work on the material. We can get in the studio and do it. That would be a great idea because Jeff fancies himself a bit of a producer and so do I. Maybe it would be good to get someone neutral in. Put that out there for me. Maybe that will bring us together and we\u2019d have to listen like a couple of schoolboys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A biopic is also in the realm of possibility. \u201cI\u2019d love to do that,\u201d he says. \u201cMy two youngest boys are 8 and 10. They say, \u2018Dad, we look like you! We can be the young you!\u2019 I\u2019d love to see it happen. I wouldn\u2019t want to do it like Elton\u2019s [movie <em>Rocketman<\/em>]. That turned out a bit like <em>Mama Mia!<\/em>, but the Queen one [<em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>] was bloody marvelous. I loved it. Now, whether it will or won\u2019t happen, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not going to lose any sleep over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rod-stewart-country-record-jeff-beck-911007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Stewart is still weeks away from the release of his new symphonic LP You\u2019re in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, but he\u2019s already looking ahead to his next record. \u201cI\u2019m trying to put together a country record,\u201d he tells Rolling Stone. \u201cNot just country music, but folk music and older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 10:36:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}