Had Me a Actual Good Time…With Faces! In Session & Reside on the BBC 1971-1973

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Nov 30, 2023
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By Frank Valish

In Could of 1971, Rod Stewart launched his groundbreaking solo album, Each Image Tells a Story. It wasn’t his first solo album, however it was his largest up to now, that includes each the hit single “Maggie Could” and Stewart’s seminal model of Tim Hardin’s “Purpose to Consider.”

It was earlier that very same month that the primary of the songs on Had Me a Actual Good Time… was broadcast on air. And this Document Retailer Day Black Friday launch proves that regardless that Stewart was beginning to blossom as a solo famous person on the time, he nonetheless made some fiery rock and roll along with his outdated band, Faces.

Admittedly, the pickings listed here are slim. The primary facet options “Had Me a Actual Good Time” and Faces’ model of Paul McCartney’s “Possibly I’m Amazed,” each which had been initially launched on the band’s 1971 album Lengthy Participant. Additionally on facet one is a model of Robert Johnson’s “Love in Useless” and the barnstorming instrumental “Oh Lord I’m Browned Off,” which options the most effective of the band’s non-vocal musical abilities on drums, bass, and slide guitar.

The second facet options 4 extra tracks from BBC in live performance performances from 1971 via 1973. The model of “It’s All Over Now,” initially written by Bobby and Shirley Womack and made well-known by The Rolling Stones, is comparatively perfunctory blues. “Twistin’ The Night time Away” (Sam Cooke) is prime dwell Faces, all boogie and grit. The Temptations’ “(I Know) I’m Shedding You” is splendidly messy. After which there’s “Too A lot Lady (For a Henpecked Man)” (Ike Turner) with slightly of the Stones’ “Avenue Preventing Man” within the center.

Had Me a Actual Good Time… is nice (and great-sounding!) doc of Faces’ dwell BBC performances. The one actual criticism is that it’s a lot too temporary. An actual good time certainly. If solely that point was a bit longer. (www.theofficialfaces.com) (www.rhino.com)

Creator score: 6.5/10