It clearly suits him better than Sinatra songs. This honky-tonk weeper, written by Glenn Sutton, was a Top 10 country hit for Jerry Lee Lewis in 1968. with his version, featured on 1972’s “Never a Dull Moment.” His delivery really nails the pathos of these beer-drenched lyrics as a man resigns himself to staying in the bar to drink his life and happiness away until it drives his woman to desert him. It’s not the only Sam Cooke song he’s tackled, but it is the one that feels the most like a Rod Stewart song. He even re-recorded this one in the ’80s for the soundtrack to a film called “Innerspace.” But the raucous recording on 1972’s “Never a Dull Moment” is the way to go. It sounds like Stewart and assorted Faces breaking curfew in a rock club in the best way possible. The lead guitar is even looser than the vocal (also in the best way possible).
“Gasoline Alley”Ī homesick young man dreams of going back to “where I started from,” which in this case is Gasoline Alley. “When the weather’s better and the rails unfreeze and the wind don’t whistle ’round my knees,” he sings, “I’ll put on my wedding suit and catch the evening train/I’ll be home before the milk’s upon the door.” Written by Stewart and the Faces’ Ronnie Wood, the title track of 1970’s “Gasoline Alley,” Stewart’s second album, is a rustic country-rocker with plenty of mandolin. Stewart wrote this acoustic-guitar ballad himself, and it’s one of his best.
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