Rod Stewart - Foot Loose & Fancy Free
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Artist: Rod StewartEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2011-03-21
Music Label: Warner Bros Mod Afw
Product features:
- Rod Stewart - Footloose & Fancy Free Brazil Import
- Hot Legs
- You're Insane
- You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
- Born Loose
- You Keep Me Hangin' On
- (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
- You Got a Nerve
- I Was Only Joking
Free Music Notes for Foot Loose & Fancy Free
Free Music Review: A great album - if only for side two
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a very unusual album in that the first half is run-of-the-mill rock'n'roll from the mid-70s, while the second side may be the single best album side ever recorded. Passing lightly over the first side we note that the Top 40 hits "Hot Legs" and "Born Loose", while decent tunes aren't anything different from much that was being turned out by other artists during this time.
The second side, though, seems to have been done by another person and band entirely. One is tempted to ask, "OK, where is the real the Rod Stewart", but maybe this is the "real" Rod Stewart. In tunes that, lyrically, harken back to the days of "Gasoline Alley" and "Maggie May" Rod pulls the emotional stops out to the limit. He covers two great Motown hits, "You Keep Me Hanging On" and "(if loving you is wrong) I Don't Want to be Right". The third song, "You Got a Nerve" delves into his relationship, which was breaking up at the time, with the actress Britt Ecklund and shows a very private side of a man who was notorious for his sexual antics (actual and rumored) and gives us a hint of how much this particular love affair mattered to him.
It's on the fourth and last tune that everything gets left on the stage. "I Was Only Joking" talks about a young man who, though he tries to hide behind a facade of devil-may-care worldliness, is, at heart a romantic. One of the things that really brings this song to life is the incredible guitar solo that constitutes about a minute and a half of the six minute song. It is, hands down, in my opinion, the single best guitar solo ever put on record. The guitarist, whose name I don't know, runs the gamut from an acoustic-like introduction played with a light touch and definite grace, to a blistering intricate heavy electric sound, to a quiet ending that blends back into Rod's vocals that end the tune. I find myself listening to this song at least three or four times every time I listen to this album and almost always I find something that I hadn't noticed before somewhere in the mix.
In truth, I tend to listen to the second side of this album repeatedly. The instrumentation and musicianship of the backup band is worthy of admiration and emulation. It's the sort of thing that one hears very little of in this age of electronica, rap, and hip-hop. I'm afraid that sampling other's works and mixing them into short pieces, while perhaps technically challenging, can't begin to match the nearly supernatural things that can go on between living musicians either in the studio, as here, or live as, say, on Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young's "4 Way Street". More's the pity as we've raised a generation of children who are musically illiterate as a result of the emphasis that has been placed on hip-hop and rap over the past twenty or so years. While there are still some very talented new musicians and bands, such as Wilco, out there even those are made up of people in their late-twenties to early thirties who have spent their lives learning to play music, not just speak in iambic pentameter. I'm concerned that this type of music, which requires real artistry and skill to play and compose, will go the way of classical music and become a niche market. Will we someday see bands who devote themselves to note-for-note interpretations of the music of the late-60s to mid-70s, playing before concert halls of hushed patrons who will then discuss the nuances of the guitarist's rendition of Robby Krieger's solo from The Doors "Light My Fire"? I hope not, but then, at least the music would survive long enough to perhaps speak to subsequent generations with the eloquence that it spoke to mine.
Foot Loose & Fancy Free Poster
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2009.Classic Rock Music CDs
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