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Certain Songs #1999: Rod Stewart – “Cut Across Shorty”

January 8, 2021 by Jim Connelly Leave a Comment

Album: Gasoline Alley
Year: 1970

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Here’s a thing I never knew until I was this many years old: “Cut Across Shorty” was the last song that Eddie Cochran ever recorded. His version, of course, was what you might expect: country on the verses, raving-up on the chorus — drummer Jerry Allison killing it throughout — and basically getting through the story in an economical 2:02.

That’s not at all the direction Rod Stewart took the song in. In fact, we’re almost a minute in before we get anything but a “woooo!” out of Stewart’s mouth.

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Certain Songs #1998: Rod Stewart – “My Way of Giving”

January 7, 2021 by Jim Connelly Leave a Comment

Album: Gasoline Alley
Year: 1970

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And so Rod Stewart spent the first half of the 1970s alternating between releasing solo albums and being the front man for the Faces. And so the debut album by the Faces, First Step, came out in March of 1970, followed three months later by Rod’s second solo album, Gasoline Alley.

And while the folk, blues and soul orientations of the solo albums were sonically different from the bash-em-out rock n roll songs that Faces specialized in, he started giving them at least one song on solo album, because why not? I mean, they’re the fucking Faces.

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  • Certain Songs #2007: Roger Miller – “King of The Road”
  • Certain Songs #2006: Rod Stewart – “You Wear It Well”
  • Certain Songs #2005: Rod Stewart – “Italian Girls”
  • Certain Songs #2004: Rod Stewart – “Lost Paraguayos”

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