Rod Stewart plays intimate Tampa casino gig on Friday

Rod the Bod keeps on talking about how he’s done playing his rock material and wants to spend the rest of his touring career focusing on his big band material (

which Judy Collins praised at a downtown Clearwater gig last month

), but despite a new swing album with Jools Hollis due later this month, the 79-year-old is having a hard time letting it go.

Stewart—

who just played the casino last year

—is currently fresh off of a Las Vegas residency, and is even set to co-headline a gig or two with Billy Joel later this year, so while part of me doubts we’ll ever get those big-band-focused shows, you can’t hate on the hits. He wears it well, you know.

Tickets to see Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa on Friday, Feb. 16 are going for $275

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