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Gasoline Alley | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rod Stewart
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8366
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 42
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 558059
UPC: 731455805925
EAN: 0731455805925
ASIN: B00000612O
Release Date: August 17, 1998
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| » | Gasoline Alley | | » | It's All Over Now | | » | Only A Hobo | | » | My Way Of Giving | | » | Country Comforts | | » | Cut Across Shorty | | » | Lady Day | | » | Jo's Lament | | » | You're My Girl (I Don't Want To Discuss It) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Working in what was not then called an "unplugged" format, Stewart mixed acoustic guitars, mandolin and piano with a hard-rock attitude to create a distinctive sound that seems as fresh today as ever. Building on the success and innovations of The Rod Stewart Album, Gasoline Alley contains unfettered, laddish takes on Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now" and the bluesy "Cut Across Shorty", plus a definitive version of Bob Dylan's "Only a Hobo" and the brilliant, nostalgic title track, a Stewart original. The singer is very near the top of his game here. --Daniel Durchholz
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 Gasoline Alley sublime July 19, 2008
Fantastic album by Rod Stewart, when he was at his best. Raw energy, top songs
Rod the Mod is God July 10, 2008
Following the template set by his debut album this follow-up released in 1970 again offers a great variety of sounds and styles. There are 'loose' rockers like "It's all over now" and "Cut across Shorty", a folky bob Dylan Cover, an update of an old Small Faces song "My way of giving" and two of Rod's own songs "Lady Day" and Jo's lament". Rod once again demonstrated that he wasn't just a rocker but could also sing gentler songs, while keeping his trademark power and phrasing. He's sympathetically backed throughout by all the Faces plus additional musicians like Martin Quittenton, who provide many of the albums folkier moments.
We get off to a great start with the title track written by Rod and Ronnie Wood, a melodic, bluesy song with nice slide guitar from Mr. Wood. Rod also turns in an atmospheric, laid-back version of Elton John's country-tinged ballad "Country Comforts" (but there was controversy at the time because Rod had changed the words!) The old Eddie Chocran rocker "Cut across Shorty" keeps the country feel but hot-rodded for an almost rockabilly sound. For me the real highlight of the record is Rod's sensitive interpretation of Dylan's "Only a hobo". Rod turns the throwaway delivery of Dylan's sparse original into a beautifully arranged, haunting Celtic melody which enhances the song's message - this must be the definitive version of the song. It was Rod's taste in choosing the songs and arrangements on these early solo records that really set them apart and eventually led to commercial success with the following year's "Every picture tells a story" and "Maggie May". (A taste that seems to have deserted him in recent years.)
Songs from skid row November 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having revealed his folk influences on his debut solo album, Rod Stewart explored the genre further on his 1970 follow-up. The gutter-and-grime sleeve art is relevant to much of the material, which tells stories of people who either rise from the social basement or sink deeper into it. The magnificent acoustic title track recalls humble origins and leaves you with a breathless aftertaste. Apart from this, there are only two other original songs. One of these, 'Lady Day,' in similar style, tells of a girl whose rise in society leaves a less fortunate lover behind, while 'Jo's Lament' charts the broken relationship of a down and out. Stewart also covers one of Bob Dylan's observations of injustice from 'John Wesley Harding,' 'Only A Hobo.'
Elsewhere, there's a rousing version of 'It's All Over Now' and a typically perky Small Faces song, 'My Way Of Giving.' Stewart's version of an old Eddie Cochran hit, 'Cut Across Shorty' is typically unexpected, an acoustic rock reading complete with fiddle. Taste in choice of material and interpretation are two of his biggest strengths and his take on Elton John and Bernie Taupin's 'Country Comforts' from John's old West-preoccupied 'Tumbleweed Connection' is just such an example. The album closes with a funky rocker, 'You're My Girl,' completing a second successive classic Rod Stewart album.
A long-forgotten classic December 7, 2002
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Back in the early seventies, when Rod Stewart had not yet abandoned his own artistic path in order to follow the trends and become a spiky-haired, glitzy pop singer in pink outfits, he wrote some of the best folk rock songs, turned out some of the best cover tunes, and worked with one of the best backing band ever.If you prefer the Rod Stewart of the 1980s, "Blondes Have More Fun" and all, this might not be your thing. But between 1969 and 1972, Stewart turned out four primarily acoustic albums of folk, rock, blues and country that he has never since come close to matching.
"Gasoline Alley" (the title track is written by the unbeatable team of Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood) sports perhaps the best Bob Dylan cover of all time, a beautiful "Only A Hobo", as well as a hoarse, ragged, folkish version of Elton John's and Bernie Taupin's "Country Comforts", Stewarts own "Lady Day", and an incredibly rocking, reeling "Cut Across Shorty", built around a howling violin, two or three acoustic guitars, and the pounding drums of Kenneth Day Jones. That one song rocks harder than any acoustic country tune has a right to, and therein lay the genius of Rod Stewart the interpreter and Rod Stewart the songwriter: He and Ronnie Wood knew that you didn't need to pull in Phil Spector, the synth and the horn ensemble to make a folk song sound good. Instead of looking for the rock within the folk, they proved how folk could rock like hell on its own!
Rod when he was good January 16, 2000
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is the first Rod album I bought (when it was first released) For the London fan's info. it is also known to be Rod's favourite. Lady Day & Jo's Lament are haunting ballads while the duet with Elton John on Country Comfort is splendid. Anyone who only knows Rod from Atlantic Crossing onwards doesn't realise what a fine body of work they have missed.
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