Track Listing

1. Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller
2. Lochinvar
3. Farewell
4. Sailor
5. Bring It On Home To Me / You Send Me
6. Let Me Be Your Car
7. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man
8. Dixie Toot
9. Hard Road
10. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
11. Girl From The North Country
12. Mine For Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5142 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 42 minutes

CD Description
On SMILER, as per usual, Stewart's approach towards recording was to invite over a bunch of friends, get the spirits flowing and have a grand time laying down tracks. The gang included Elton John, who plays on his own "Let Me Be Your Car".Along with Reg's song, Stewart's other covers included a raucous "Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller", a lovingly rendered Sam Cooke medley of "Bring It On Home To Me/You Send Me" and areworking of Aretha Franklin's classic that reads as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man". Ron Wood returned on guitar and co-wrote the Mott-like "Sailor" and "Dixie Toot" withStewart, who gave the latter selection a New Orleans twist by having Chris Barber's Jazz Band play on it. Rod's creative derring-do included an instrumental version of the Lerner & Loewe standard "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" and useof the Tropic Isle Steel Band on the Paul & Linda McCartneypenned "Mine For Me".

Customer Reviews

The last glorious blast of Rod the Mod
This album is often undeservedly overlooked in the Rod Stewart arhcive. It suffers, understandably, by comparison with it's two superb predecessors, but is still full of gems that recall the Rod Stewart of the Faces era.

Highlights include "Sweet Little Rock,n Roller" the Chuck Berry classic (prefaced by a dog!), the winsome "Farewell" which stands comparison with his other great singles, and the duets with Elton John on "Let me be your car".

A good fun album, and the last of a great era.

Rodders' great overlooked work.
I thought I would enter a review of Smiler but 'A music fan from Liverpool' says almost exactly what I wanted to. Sweet Little Rock and Roller is a demonstration of just what a great rock n roll song interpreter Rod was at his best; and Farewell completes a superb trilogy of Stewart/Quittenton songs (along with You Wear it Well and Maggie Mae); amply displaying the boy's talent as an original songist. The rest of the album is purty good too. Indeed, I believe without this album, along with its "two superb predecessors", one's collection of the great days of Rod cannot be called complete! Every Picture tells a story, Never a Dull Moment and Smiler; a great rock n Roll trilogy indeed.

From a time he could still rock ...
... with the best of 'em and just before he completely sold out!

Check out 'Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller'.