Soulbook

Performer: Rod Stewart
Artist: Stevie Wonder; Mary J. Blige; Smokey Robinson; Jennifer Hudson
Engineer: Darwin Best; Kenny Moran
Producer: Steve Jordan; Steve Tyrell
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Anatoly Rosinsky, Searmi Park, Julie Gigante, Phillipe Levy, Roger Wilkie, Roy Brewer (violin); Marlo Fisher, Rob Brophy, Karen Elaine, David F. Walther (viola); New Memphis Strings (strings). Liner Note Authors: Arnold Stiefel; Rod Stewart. Photographer: Mark Seliger. Arrangers: Howard Drossin; Willie Mitchell. Continuing his stroll through pop's backpages, Rod Stewart moves on from "The Great Rock Classics of Our Time" and dives into the SOULBOOK, shorthand for all the great Motown and soul songs that still are in heavy rotation on oldies radio well into the new millennium. Rod doesn't spend much time with the soul and blues singers so influential on him, choosing instead to run through a bunch of Motown hits - a full six of the 13 songs here are from the Motor City - adding a couple of smooth soul hits from the early '70s, plus Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown's "Let It Be Me" which gives him an opportunity to duet with Jennifer Hudson. All this is firmly within Stewart's wheelhouse.

Rod Stewart first gained notoriety as vocalist in the Jeff Beck Group in the late 1960s. He went on to sing for raucous bar-room rockers the Faces and started a simultaneous solo career that eventually eclipsed that of his band. Moving from folk-rock through pop, disco, jazz and more, Stewart carved out a multi-decade career as a strutting, soul-influenced singer with equal amounts of talent and charisma, and piled up an astonishing number of hit singles and platinum albums. Stewart's career has seen more than one rebirth; in 1993 his acoustic UNPLUGGED performance brought him renewed acclaim as a sensitive song interpreter. Ten years later, with the help of Clive Davis, he gained even more notoriety as a smooth crooner of orchestrated jazz standards.

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