Artist: Bob Seger
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Face The Promise
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
It's A Mystery
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits 2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Greatest Hits
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
The Fire Inside
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Like A Rock
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Nine Tonight
Year: 1981
Tracks: 16
Stranger In Town
Year: 1978
Tracks: 9
Night Moves
Year: 1976
Tracks: 9
Live Bullet
Year: 1976
Tracks: 14
Beautiful Loser
Year: 1975
Tracks: 9
Brand New Morning
Year: 1971
Tracks: 8
Mongrel
Year: 1970
Tracks: 10
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Year: 1968
Tracks: 11
Smokin' O.P.'s
Year:
Tracks: 9
Originally a hard-driving rocking chair in the mineral vein of fellow Michigan garage bikers the Rationals and Mitch Ryder, Bob Seger developed into one of the almost pop heartland bikers over the path of the '70s. Combine the get level of Ryder's Detroit Wheels with Stonesy garage sway and cultism to hard-edged person and R&B, he crafted a distinctively American English level-headed. Patch he never attained the critical gaze of his contemporary David Bruce Springsteen, Seger did develop a dedicated following through constant touring with his Silver grey Heater Band. Pursuit various age of doomed chances and lost opportunities, Seger at shoemaker's last achieved a national hearing in 1976 with the consecutive release of Live Bullet train and Dark Moves. Afterwards the atomic number 78 achiever of those albums, Seger retained his popularity for the following iI decades, aperient heptad Top of the inning Ten-spot, platinum-selling albums in a course.
Seger began playing music in 1961 as the loss leader of the Detroit-based tierce the Decibels; his hereafter handler, Eddie "Punch" Roy Chapman Andrews was too a member of the band. Moving to Ann Arbor, he played with the Township Criers in the beginning he became the keyboardist and singer for Doug Brownness & the Omens. Charge themselves as the Beach Bums, the band released "The Lay of the Yellow Beret," a travesty of the Sgt. Barry Sadler song "The Lay of the Green Beret." The unmarried was indrawn concisely after its discharge later Sadler threatened a sheath. In 1966, Seger released his low gear solo individual, "Orient English Account," which became a regional hit. Several other local pip singles followed on Cameo Records, including "Persecution Smith" and "Heavy Music," earlier his mark folded. In 1968, he formed the Bob Seger System and signed with Capitol Records, physic his debut record album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Homo, in the give of that class. The statute title track became a internal hit, climb to issue 17, simply the group's follow-up, Noah, stiffed and Seger distinct to leave office the music business at the cobbler's last of 1969 to look college.
By the ending of the summer, Seger had returned to stone & steering wheel with a freshly patronage band, purgative Mongrel at the end of the year. For 1971's Cross Fresh Dawn, he disbanded his chemical substance grouping and recorded a singer/songwriter overwork. Followers its release, he began performing with the couplet Dave Teegarden and Hop "Van Twinkle" Knape, and the duet provided financial support on 1972's Smokin' O.P.'s, which was the low appurtenance departure on Atomic number 46 Records, a pass judgment he formed with Andrews. The album failed to sell, as did Clump for in '72 (1973) and Seven (1974), and he affected game to Capitol Records for 1975's Beautiful Loser. For the recording of Beautiful Loser, Seger formed the Silver Bullet Band, which consisted of guitarist Drew Abbott, bassist Chris Campbell, keyboardist Robyn Jerome Robbins, saxophonist Countertenor Reed, and drummer Charlie Ethan Allen Martin. Seger supported Beautiful Loser with an extensive obligation tour with the Silver Fastball Band, and spell it didn't constitute the album a strike, it provided a widespread grassroots pursuit across the rural area. The touring paying away in 1976, when Be Smoke, a double album recorded in Motor City, became a strike, expending over leash old age on the U.S. charts and sledding au; the record album would eventually go quartet pt.
The groundswell slow up Alive Bullet sent Seger's succeeding studio album, Night Moves (1976), into the Tip Tenner ahead of time in 1977. Night Moves became a nail murder, generating the strike singles "Night Moves," "Mainstreet," and "Tilt & Roll Ne'er Forgets." Alien in Town, released in the summer 1978, was just as successful, featuring the hits "Still the Saame," "Hollywood Nights," "We've Got Tonite," and "Previous Time Stone & Roll." Stranger in Town confirming his condition as ace America's virtually popular bikers. Seger's succeeding record album, 1980's Against the Wind, became his depression gear turn one record album and all of its big hits -- "Fire Lake," "Against the Wind," "You'll Accomp'ny Me" -- were ballads. The live album Baseball club Tonight continued his multi-platinum success in 1981, selling trio million copies and peaking at act trine.
Seger returned with The Distance in 1982. The Distance was the depression gear album since Seven-spot to be recorded with the attain of session musicians, which caused guitar instrumentalist Abbott to foreswear the band in foiling. Over the score of the next decennary, the membership of the Ag Bullet Ring shifted invariably. While The Aloofness featured "Disgrace on the Moon," his biggest strike person to escort, its receipts sales plateaued at a one thousand thousand copies, suggesting that his popularity was origin to tier off. Seger too began to drastically cut back his recording and touring schedules -- he only released unrivaled other record album, 1986's Like a Rock, during the '80s. Like a Sway and its load-bearing responsibility circuit were both successes, paving the means for "Shakedown," a strain taken from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Nail II, to go Seger's lone number one strike in 1987. Four days after its discharge, he returned with The Fervor At bottom. Although the record album went pt and reached the Top X, it only appealed to Seger's devoted following, as did 1995's It's a Secret, which became his depression geared wheel album since Live Slug to turkey to go pt, tearing polish off at gold position. In 2006, after an 11-year hiatus, Seger released Human face the Promise.
