{"id":28846,"date":"2024-02-23T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/rod-stewarts-swing-fever-album-has-a-rude-edge-but-was-a-pleasure-to-make\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:02:59","slug":"rod-stewarts-swing-fever-album-has-a-rude-edge-but-was-a-pleasure-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/rod-stewarts-swing-fever-album-has-a-rude-edge-but-was-a-pleasure-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart’s ‘Swing Fever’ album has “a rude edge,” but was “a pleasure” to make"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jonas Mohr\/Warner Records<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Swing Fever,\u00a0<\/em>Rod Stewart<\/strong>‘s new album with bandleader and TV host Jools Holland<\/strong>, is out February 23. It’s a collection of standards like “Pennies From Heaven<\/strong><\/a>” and “Ain’t Misbehavin<\/strong><\/a>‘” done in an upbeat, big-band style. Rod had actually started making a swing album before this, but scrapped it because, as he tells ABC Audio, it was “too polite.”<\/p>\n

“It didn’t have a rude edge, which is what I wanted,” he adds. “So I went to Jools.”<\/p>\n

Once Holland realized that the call he got from Rod Stewart inviting him to make a record wasn’t a prank, he jumped onboard.<\/p>\n

“He said, ‘I want it really sort of a bit rough around the edges,'” Holland tells ABC Audio. “And I said, ‘Well, you’ve come to the right man.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n

As it happens, they both have extensive knowledge of swing tunes of the ’20s and ’30s. “I’ve known these songs all my life,” Rod says. “My family played Glenn Miller<\/strong>, all that stuff, Rosemary Clooney<\/strong>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My grandmother’s family all sang the old songs at Christmas,” Holland adds.<\/p>\n

As a result, says Rod, “There were no arguments. We all agreed on everything: the songs that we chose, the rhythms, the arrangements \u2014 everything was just a pleasure. It was quick … Jools rehearsed the songs in the morning and recorded in the afternoon, sometimes two or three a day.”<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0there won’t be a Swing Fever<\/em> tour in 2024.<\/p>\n

“Our schedules are very full,” Rod explains. “Maybe next year if the album does considerably well, we could do it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Holland says what he wants fans to take away from\u00a0the album\u00a0is “joy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We really loved making this record,” he says. “And I hope that people feel the same way as we felt when we were making it.”<\/p>\n