Rod Stewart Plans Return To Country And R&B
Posted by Dan Haggerty on 05.12.2008
His label is not thrilled about the change...
Rod Stewart plans to move on from his Songbooks and go back to recording R&B and country. The move is not at all unusual for the 63-year-old superstar. A lot of the early Stewart recordings were based on both R&B and Country. On 1971's Every Picture Tells A Story, Stewart covered The Temptations "I Know I'm Losing You" and Tim Hardin's "Reason To Believe". Other R&B songs given the Stewart flavour include 'Standing In The Shadow of Love' and 'This Old Heart of Mine'.
Stewart's dilemma right now is that his label J Records doesn't want him to make a country album. "There's a Country and Western album I'd love to do, although the record company doesn't want it," Stewart said, "We are still in the throes of talking about it. I very much doubt whether we will get it done this year."
Stewart's last album was Still The Same, Great Rock Classics Of Our Time in 2006.
