Single of the Week: Rod Stewart
Posted on October 21, 2007The other night I was driving home, and I had a problem to solve. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to listen to the Rolling Stones, or should I listen to Rod Stewart and the Faces. What to do what to do. And then a solution presented itself. How about Rod Stewart doing a Rolling Stones song? Brilliant! Courtesy of the two-disc (at least, iTunes says it’s a partial album) Complete Mercury Studios Recordings collection, we have an excellent rendition of “Street Fighting Man”. It’s a slowed down, slick and sliding blues version, with some great resonator guitar action (Hey Paul, maybe you should get a resonator guitar… it’s still hillbilly, like you were looking for, but it’s cool, too.) and after it ends, it reprises with a an approach similar to the original version, but still acoustic. And really, it’s a fantastic track.
Bonus crossover fact: Ronnie Wood played guitar with the Faces with Rod Stewart, before joining up with Mick and Keith and the gang. Neat!
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Interesting. Noticed he does “Pinball Wizard” on that album too. That seems less palatable than a cover of “Street Fighting Man” though. I wonder if pandora.com would pick this up.