Track Listing

1. True Blue - Rod Stewart, Glyn Johns, Woody, Kenny Jones, Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane
2. Lost Paraguayos - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Woody, Martin Quittenton, Mick Waller
3. Mama You Been On My Mind - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Mick Waller, Brian, Dick Powell, Martin Quittenton, Spike Heatly, Gordon Huntley
4. Italian Girls - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Mick Waller, Dick Powell, Martin Quittenton, Woody, Peter Sears
5. Angel - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Mick Waller, Speedy, Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane, Woody
6. Interludings - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Woody
7. You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Mick Waller, Woody, Martin Quittenton, Ian McLagan
8. I'd Rather Go Blind - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Mick Waller, Woody, Ian McLagan, Peter Sears
9. Twistin' The Night Away - Rod Stewart, Mike Bobak, Mike Butcher, Mick Waller, Woody, Jimmy Horovidtzz, Ronnie Lane

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1520 in Music
• Released on: 1998-08-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 33 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The fourth Rod Stewart album to contain his trademark acoustic-electric mix of instruments and bluesy vocals, Never a Dull Moment feels anything but formulaic, kicking off with the aw-shucks modesty of "True Blue" and rollicking on through the enduring original "You Wear It Well". Some of the best tunes here are covers--Bob Dylan's searching "Mama You Been on My Mind," a soulful reading of Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," and a scorching take on Etta James's "I'd Rather Go Blind"--but, as always, Stewart manages to make them sound of a piece with his own compositions. Unlike the promises proffered by some album titles, Never a Dull Moment (ironic though it was, given the cover painting of a terminally bored Stewart) proved to be dead-on. --Daniel Durchholz

CD Description
NEVER A DULL MOMENT picks up where EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY left off. Here we have more raucous rock & roll with healthy dollops of soul and twang thrown in for good measure. Always looking for a good songwriter to cover, Stewart's honourees here include Jimi Hendrix ("Angel"), Dylan ("Mama You Been On My Mind"), and Rod's personal hero, Sam Cooke ("Twistin' The Night Away"). Sidling up nicely next to these heartfelt interpretations are some of Stewart's finest original songs. Teaming with spiritual brother Ron Wood, Stewart offers up the cheeky "Italian Girls" and "True Blue", a track that goes along at a mid-tempo clip before exploding into a heartfelt rave-up.
Most notable is a collaboration with Martin Quittenton on "You Wear It Well", an irresistible addition to the Stewart canon. Although the Sam Cooke cover is the one spot where the soulful Scot would be expected to indulgehis R&B jones, Etta James's "I'd Rather Go Blind" is where Rod brings it all back home with a slow-burning vocal that wraps itself around the strolling tempo of the song. While not quite up to the perfection of EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY,NEVER A DULL MOMENT follows closely in its footsteps, and weighs in as Stewart's last classic album of the early '70s.

Customer Reviews

Rod the Mod is in fine form with Never a Dull Moment.
The first vinyl album I ever bought. On holiday at Uncle Albert's, Streatham, London, England. Wearing green cord loons, drinking shandy circa 1971. Uncle Albert would only let me listen to it at half volume on his radiogramme. But it still sounded good. Listening to it 30 years later on my modern hi-fi I can stll remember the excitement it caused way back then. Rod wore big trousers on the cover, looking into the mid-distance and we all wondered where he was going. I love the glumness and self preoccupation in the album. Who hasn't sat back in the evening, bored, or on a rainy afternoon and thought about how things might have been? That's what these tracks are about......Rod looking back at the last few years and ruminating, chewing the fat and thinking; what if? Perhaps different musical styles? (Lost Paraguayos or Italian Girls) Rock and Roll? (I'd Rather go Blind, Twisting the Night Away) A tribute to Jimi Hendrix? (Angel) or Faces inspired tracks? (True Blue and Mama You Bee on my Mind). The single that sold the album is You Wear it Well. The collection is every bit as complicated as the artist, laid down at a crossroads, breaking away from Mod days and becoming a human being in his own right. Carefully chosen musicians, pictured beneath football posts, support Rod's croaky, soulful vocals during a coach trip to different musical styles. For the early seventies the recording wws crystal clear, even on the original vinyl and Rod Stewart was a perfectionist at this time about the sound quality of his albums and running times suffered as a result. This album is an absoloute classic of differnet styles, perfect reproduction and Rod at his brilliant vocal best.....

A(nother) forgotten masterpiece
Before entering the realm of spiky, bottle-blonde hair and pink jumpsuits, Rod Stewart turned out a handful of magnificent folk-rock records, beginning with "An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down" ("The Rod Stewart Album" in the US), and ending with 1972's "Never A Dull Moment".

Essentially a slightly harder-rocking reprise of "Every Picture Tells A Story"'s eclectic mix of rock, folk, blues and country, this fine album may contain fewer recognized classics, but song for song it is almost as sublime as its predecessor.
It opens with the tough electric "True Blue", before moving on to the driving, acoustic folk-rock "Lost Paraguayos" and a superb, soulful cover of Dylan's "Mama You Been On My Mind".

"Never A Dull Moment" is Stewart's hardest-rocking album up to that point, featuring the Stonesy "Italian Girls", a swaggering, bluesy take on Hendrix's "Angel", and the "Maggie May"-follow-up "You Wear It Well".
"I'd Rather Go Blind" is a sublime interpretation of the Etta James-tune, and the album finally winds down with a great, swinging cover of one of Sam Cooke's best songs, "Twisting The Night Away".

The originals and the covers are equally effective, making "Never A Dull Moment a masterful record". Rod Stewart never got quite this good ever again.
4½ stars.

It still sounds fresh nearly 30 years on
The songs always make me smile and always make me feel good. Rod and most of the rest of the Faces produced an unpretentious, feel-good, witty record. But some of the rhymes are not for the politically correct, such as the classic 'She was tall, thin and tarty and she drove a Maserati' in Italian Girls. You can hear the throaty roar of Rod's latest car, too. It's all too good to miss.