Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley (MOFI Silver Label, Ultra Analog)
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Rod Stewart – lead vocals, acoustic guitar on "Jo's Lament" [click here to see more vinyl featuring Rod Stewart]
Ronnie Wood – guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ronnie Wood]
Martin Quittenton – acoustic guitar
Stanley Matthews – mandolin
Ronnie Lane – bass on "My Way Of Giving" and "You're My Girl", backing vocals on "My Way Of Giving"
Pete Sears – piano on "Country Comforts", bass on “Cut Across Shorty”.
Ian McLagan – piano, Hammond organ
Mick Waller – drums
Kenney Jones – drums on "My Way Of Giving" and "You're My Girl"
William Gaff – whistle
Dennis O'Flynn, Dick Powell – violin
Jack Reynolds – backing vocals on "Country Comfort"
Written by Rod Stewart (A1, B3-4), Ronnie Wood (A1), Bobby Womack (A2), Shirley Jean Womack (A2), Bob Dylan (A3), Ronnie Lane (A4), Steve Marriott (A4), Elton John (B1), Bernie Taupin (B1), Wayne P. Walker (B2), Marijohn Wilkin (B2), Dick Cooper (B5), Beth Beatty (B5), Ernie Shelby (B5)
1LP, standard sleeve
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : Silver Label (Copy of original Mastertape)
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded February–April 1970 at Morgan Studios, London
Produced by Rod Stewart and Lou Reizner
Mastered by Krieg Wunderlich at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Originally released in June 1970
Reissued in August 2011
Tracks:
Side A:
- Gasoline Alley
- It's All Over Now
- Only a Hobo
- My Way of Giving
Side B:
- Country Comfort
- Cut Across Shorty
- Lady Day
- Jo's Lament
- You're My Girl
Reviews :
“Gasoline Alley follows the same formula of Rod Stewart's first album, intercutting contemporary covers with slightly older rock & roll and folk classics and originals written in the same vein. The difference is in execution. Stewart sounds more confident, claiming Elton John's "Country Comfort," the Small Faces' "My Way of Giving," and the Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" with a ragged, laddish charm. Like its predecessor, nearly all of Gasoline Alley is played on acoustic instruments -- Stewart treats rock & roll songs like folk songs, reinterpreting them in individual, unpredictable ways. For instance, "It's All Over Now" becomes a shambling, loose-limbed ramble instead of a tight R&B/blues groove, and "Cut Across Shorty" is based around a howling, Mideastern violin instead of a rockabilly riff. Of course, being a rocker at heart, Stewart doesn't let these songs become limp acoustic numbers -- these rock harder than any fuzz-guitar workout. The drums crash and bang, the acoustic guitars are pounded with a vengeance -- it's a wild, careening sound that is positively joyous with its abandon. And on the slow songs, Stewart is nuanced and affecting -- his interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Only a Hobo" is one of the finest Dylan covers, while the original title track is a vivid, loving tribute to his adolescence. And that spirit is carried throughout Gasoline Alley. It's an album that celebrates tradition while moving it into the present and never once does it disown the past.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ultra Analog™ : The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ Series stems from the use of the Gain 2 system, mastered at half speed from the original master tapes where possible, capturing and uncovering as before undiscovered sonic information.
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.45 / 5 ; AllMusic : 5 / 5