Rod Stewart - Storyteller: The Complete Anthology

Primary Artist
Rod Stewart
Album Title
Storyteller: The Complete Anthology
Release Date
October, 1989 
Time
292:03 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Storyteller: The Complete Anthology is a flawed but effective four-disc box set covering Rod Stewart's career from its start up through the 1980s. Although most of Stewart's biggest hits and best-known songs from his first two decades are on Storyteller, the collection is poorly paced, containing too much hesitant early material and not enough Jeff Beck Group or Faces selections. Nevertheless, the box traces his evolution from a working-class singer to Rod The Mod to superstar, featuring most of his essential '70s and '80s songs -- including whole sides of Every Picture Tells A Story and Never A Dull Moment -- along the way. Read More