Rod Stewart - A Night on the Town

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Album Details

Title: A Night on the Town
Artist: Rod Stewart
Release Date: 1976
Re-Released On: 10/31/2005
Label: Warner Bros., Rhino/Warner Bros., WEA
Duration: 41:19
UPCs: 093624773023, 4943674058938, 075990311641, 075992733922, 075992733946, 603497985166, 759927339228, 936247730236
Genre: Rock
Styles: Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, Soft Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock
Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earnest, Earthy, Exuberant, Laid-Back/Mellow, Organic, Rousing, Wistful, Fun, Poignant, Romantic, Sentimental, Stylish, Confident, Energetic, Freewheeling, Humorous, Joyous, Melancholy, Passionate, Playful, Raucous, Refined/Mannered, Rollicking, Rowdy, Soothing, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved, Restrained, Self-Conscious, Detached, Sophisticated
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 2
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

  1. Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
  2. The First Cut Is the Deepest
  3. Fool for You
  4. The Killing of Georgie, Pts. 1 & 2
  5. The Balltrap
  6. Pretty Flamingo
  7. Big Bayou
  8. The Wild Side of Life
  9. Trade Winds

Additional Releases

YearTypeLabelCatalog #
2005CDWEA75099
1988CDWarner Bros.3116
1988CDWarner Bros.2-3116
1976CDRhino/Warner Bros.

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Album Review

In some ways, it's easy to think of A Night on the Town, Rod Stewart's second album for Warner, as a reprisal of the first, cut with many of the same musicians as Atlantic Crossing, produced once again by Tom Dowd, and even following its predecessor's conceit of having a "Slow Side" and "Fast Side" (granted, this flips the two around, opening with the slow one first). Superficially, this seems true, but A Night on the Town has a crucial difference: despite its party-hearty title, this album finds Stewart folding folk back into his sound, a move that deepens the music tonally and emotionally, particularly in the case of "The Killing of Georgie (Pts. 1 & 2)," Rod's most ambitious original. A winding, sensitive narrative about the murder of a gay friend -- a hate crime years before the term existed -- "The Killing of Georgie" finds Stewart filtering Dylan through his own warm, conversational style, creating a remarkable work unlike anything else in his body of work, yet the song's smooth synthesis of folk storytelling, soul, and incipient disco act as an appropriate conclusion to a side-long suite of songs of seduction, beginning with his classic come-on "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)," running through his splendid reading of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut Is the Deepest," and his fine original "Fool for You." On the Fast Side, Stewart has only one original -- the lewd, riotous "The Balltrap" -- but he more makes up for it by spinning two country classics, Gib Guilbeau's "Big Bayou" and Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life," into thick, Stonesy rock & roll, and turning Manfred Mann's "Pretty Flamingo" into a rave-up. With all this in mind, A Night on the Town isn't a revival of Atlantic Crossing, it's its inverse, with Stewart shining as an interpreter on the fast songs and writing the best slow ones, but it's also its equal, proving that Stewart could still stay true to his open-hearted, ragged soul while on a big budget. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Credits

NameCredits
Al Jackson, Jr.Drums
Andy NewmarkDrums
Arif MardinArranger, Strings
Barry BeckettKeyboards
Billy PeekGuitar
Bob GlaubBass
Dave SteenPhotography
David FosterKeyboards
David HoodBass
David LindleyViolin, Mandolin, Guitar
Dee RobbEngineer
Donald "Duck" DunnBass
Fred TackettGuitar
George TutkoAssistant Engineer
J. DavisGuitar
J. JarvisKeyboards
J. SmithKeyboards
Jerry JumonvilleSax (Tenor), Saxophone
Jimmy HorowitzStrings, Arranger
Joe LalaPercussion
Joe RobbEngineer
Joe WalshGuitar
John JarvisKeyboards
Leland SklarBass
M. LewisStrings, Arranger
Mel LewisStrings
Michael BryanCover Painting
Plas JohnsonSax (Tenor), Saxophone
R. GlaubBass
R. HawkinsDrums
Rick ShlosserDrums
Rod StewartVocals, Selection
Roger HawkinsDrums
Steve CropperGuitar
The Memphis HornsHorn
Tom DowdProducer
Tommy VigPercussion
Tower of PowerHorn
W. PeekGuitar
Willie WeeksBass