celebrating his 70th birthday with a new album of self-written material. In Stewart's case, that is special, because the singer mainly released cover albums for years. Not without success, because especially the albums on which he tackled the American Songbook were sold by millions. Stewart wrote over an hour of music together with his musical right-hand man Kevin Savigar. Stewart is especially
… inspired on the first half of the album, with the soulful rock song Please as the highlight. On the rest of the album, Stewart navigates between wall-to-wall ballads and bouncy folk rock songs. Fans of Stewart's old blues and rock records can safely skip this album, because Rod's music in 2015 is closer to than to . (PdK)more