Rod Stewart - VH-1 Storytellers, Supper Club, New York City, 4-28-1998

Next for the "VH-1 Storytellers" series is an episode featuring Rod Stewart.

This episode took place just one day prior to the release of Stewart's 19th studio album, "When We Were the New Boys." In my opinion, the show was lucky to have him when he did, because he was ending a phase of releasing typical rock albums. Starting in 2002, he would spend about a decade recording albums that mostly consisted of "Great American Songbook" songs. Those sold very well, but are easily skipped over, so I'm glad this predates that.

The "When We Were the New Boys" album was a bit unusual for Stewart because it consisted mostly of cover versions of contemporary music acts like Oasis, Primal Scream, and Ron Sexsmith. He sang three songs from that album: "Cigarettes and Alcohol," "Rocks," and "Ooh La La." That last one actually was done by his early 1970s band the Faces, but it had been written and sung by band member Ronnie Lane. He did it on the album as a tribute to Lane, who died the year before.

I had to do the usual things I did with most of these Storytellers episodes. Namely, fixing the applause at the ends, which often got cut short. I also boosted the lead vocals relative to the instruments using UVR5. At least this episode didn't have part of the first song cut off, as was often the case for this show.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Cigarettes and Alcohol (Rod Stewart)
02 talk (Rod Stewart)
03 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
04 talk (Rod Stewart)
05 Tonight's the Night [Gonna Be Alright] (Rod Stewart)
06 talk (Rod Stewart)
07 Stay with Me (Rod Stewart)
08 talk (Rod Stewart)
09 Ooh La la (Rod Stewart)
10 talk (Rod Stewart)
11 Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
12 talk (Rod Stewart)
13 You're in My Heart [The Final Acclaim] [False Start] (Rod Stewart)
14 You're in My Heart [The Final Acclaim] (Rod Stewart)
15 talk (Rod Stewart)
16 Rocks (Rod Stewart)
17 talk (Rod Stewart)
18 Having a Party (Rod Stewart)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17190977/RODSTWRT1998StrytllrsSupprClbNwYrkC__4-28-1998_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RZFxS1EH

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. However, it was low-res and blurry, so I sharpened it up using the Krea AI program.