Rod has been speaking to Billboard about his re-found love for writing
It’s all done,” Rod told Billboard. “I produced it myself.
“It’s all finished, mixed, everything… Just a good, old-fashioned Rod Stewart album with a lot of mandolin and acoustic guitar and fiddles and good storytelling, I believe, too.”
But Rod did admit that he wasn’t initially enthusiastic about writing new material, which will be his first batch of original songs since 2001.
“About a year ago I was sitting at my house in England, and [long-time collaborator Jim Cregan] came around and said, ‘Come on, let’s try to write a song’,” Stewart explained.
“And I said, ‘No, I can’t be bothered. Those days are over’. But we sat down, I started humming a melody and he took it away and sent it back and said, ‘Listen, this is pretty good’, so I wrote some words for it and ever since then it’s been just flowing like a river.
“The songs just keep going. An issue which I thought had long past and which I’d given up, songwriting, has come back, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it.”
Rod has revealed that he has recorded 10 new tracks so far, while an 11th – called ‘Love the Life You Live’ – is expected to feature as the set’s title track.
The new collection is expected to be released in spring 2013.
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