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Title: Emperor's New Clothes Redux
Review: I do love many of Rod's old hit songs, but he can't sing the great standards on this CD as well as they should be sung. His Louis Armstrong voice is too harsh for many of the songs. I'll concede that some singing styles take a while to grow on you. For example, I now love Cyndi Lauper's "At Last" CD and the way she uniquely covers every song with a powerhouse rock voice, and I've learned to like Joni Mitchell's completely changed husky vocals. Unfortunately, because of those two revisionist singers, I didn't realize that I should first listen to this Rod Stewart CD before shelling out money for it. He did pick fabulous songs, and to give him credit, he enunciates well so that every lyric is crystal clear. The orchestra is great. But his voice lacks the mellowness that these classics deserve.
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