“I could keep doing those standards well into my nineties,” he tells Rolling Stone. “But I think that four is enough.”
The first three albums — released in 2002, ’03 and ’04 — feature Stewart tackling the likes of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael, and have collectively sold more than 13 million copies worldwide.
After Songbook: Volume IV, the rocker-turned-crooner will revisit his first love: R&B. And he plans to select some less obvious fare. “I want to record old songs by Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, Teddy Pendergrass and Bobby Womack,” he says. “I want to shine some light on these guys, and stay away from Otis [Redding], Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke.”
Stewart is currently on tour in the U.K. He will then head to Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden.
courtesy Rolling Stone