℗ 2014 The Island Def Jam Music Group
| Released | 1969 |
| Duration | 32m 24s |
| Record Label | Island Def Jam |
| Genre | Pop |
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Rod Stewart
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Street Fighting Man
Rod Stewart |
5:04 | |||
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1.2
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Man Of Constant Sorrow
Rod Stewart |
2:30 | |||
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1.3
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Blind Prayer
Rod Stewart |
4:36 | |||
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1.4
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Handbags & Gladrags
Rod Stewart |
4:22 | |||
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1.5
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An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Rod Stewart |
3:02 | |||
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1.6
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I Wouldn't Ever Change A Thing
Rod Stewart |
4:45 | |||
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1.7
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Cindy's Lament
Rod Stewart |
4:25 | |||
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1.8
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Dirty Old Town
Rod Stewart |
3:40 |
“Rod has done himself full justice with his tremendously powerful album, full of that wrenching, throat-tearing style for which he’s justly famous…a fine, fine album.” Even if the record failed to chart anywhere except for a No. 139 ranking in the US and No. 31 in Australia, An Old Raincoat is a fascinating indication of an emerging rock presence."
- Richard Williams (Melody Maker)
In the summer of 1969, Rod Stewart was an aspiring rock musician aged 24, with years under his belt on the road and in the studio as the featured vocalist with the Jeff Beck Group. Before that, he’d sung with Long John Baldry and the other R&B-steeped members of Steampacket. ‘Rod The Mod’ had even had a number of singles released in his own name, on Decca, Columbia and Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate. What he had yet to do was release an album in his own name.
But after Mercury Records A&R man Lou Reizner signed him to a solo deal in 1968, and he’d waited out some contractual delays, Stewart was free to start recording that first solo set. It was then released in America first (as The Rod Stewart Album), in November 1969, and back in the UK in early 1970, and that release is UMG's latest reDiscovered album, An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down.
Raincoat missed the UK charts altogether, as did its only single, Stewart’s version of the Rolling Stones’ rocker from 1968, ‘Street Fighting Man.’ It seems strange now to remember that the song that has become by far the most well-known on that debut album, Rod’s interpretation of Manfred Mann frontman Mike D’Abo’s ‘Handbags and Gladrags,’ was not only not a hit, but not even a single.
The album, which listed Stewart and Reizner as co-producers, also had Rod’s raspy voice wrapping itself around Ewan MacColl’s folk standard ‘Dirty Old Town,’ later much associated with the Pogues; and another song that would be greatly celebrated in later decades, ‘Man Of Constant Sorrow,’ which found its greatest fame in the bluegrass interpretation by the Soggy Bottom Boys, so-called, on the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers’ 2000 movie smash O Brother! Where Art Thou.
Even if the record failed to chart anywhere except for a No. 139 ranking in the US and No. 31 in Australia, An Old Raincoat is a fascinating indication of an emerging rock presence.
192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Island Def Jam Studio Masters
Tracks 1-8 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-8 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.66 -2.89 to -0.30 | -18.08 -23.09 to -15.85 | -15.24 -19.60 to -12.70 | 11 10 to 13 | |
| 1 | Street Fighting Man | -0.30 | -16.10 | -13.5 | 10 |
| 2 | Man Of Constant Sorrow | -2.89 | -23.09 | -19.6 | 11 |
| 3 | Blind Prayer | -0.30 | -15.85 | -12.7 | 10 |
| 4 | Handbags & Gladrags | -0.34 | -19.34 | -16.3 | 11 |
| 5 | An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down | -0.53 | -18.57 | -16.1 | 13 |
| 6 | I Wouldn't Ever Change A Thing | -0.30 | -16.11 | -13.5 | 10 |
| 7 | Cindy's Lament | -0.30 | -16.86 | -13.3 | 10 |
| 8 | Dirty Old Town | -0.30 | -18.69 | -16.9 | 12 |