Seger may have been the last of the regional rock stars…In short, this looks like Seger’s year – and “Night Moves,” a success critically as well as commercially, is one of the few albums in recent memory with both intelligent lyrics and visceral music.” “At an age when most rock artists hit their creative peak and start fading, Bob Seger is just now coming into his own. Bob Seger, for instance, rock king of Detroit, hit the road ceaselessly for 12 years, but hardly anyone outside Michigan remembered his name. “Rock has a long enough history by now to have nurtured its own legends of outsize talents in the provinces who somehow couldn’t make their names national and expensive. “In one of the year’s most enjoyable collections, Seger shows humor, point of view and an occasional evocativeness that give his work far more dimension than most high-energy rockers” Larry Rohter, The Washington Post, August 7, 1977 Virtually every song on “Night Moves” has a hunger, toughness and drive that is almost palpable, and in the lyrics Seger has written for the powerful surging melodies can be found a continuing fascination with the underdog, the loser and the oppressed.” As a result of “Night Moves”, he has suddenly become one of the hottest attractions in pop music. Though he had been on the scene for more than a decade in his home base, Detroit, Seger wasn’t even mentioned in “The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” “The British Encyclopedia of Rock,” published earlier this year, didn’t do much better: It described him as “one of the great lost figures of rock ‘n’ roll’” and added that he “has always seemed destined to miss out on the big time.” Well it turns out that Seger has the last laugh. “As recently as last summer, it seemed that Bob Seger would never rate more than a footnote in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. Although the single has yet to show anywhere close to the Top 10 in Canada, according to Capitol Records it’s firmly entrenched in the top five in Britain. Elton claimed he would hire Wembley Stadium outside London and would dance naked on the stage if Bob Seger’s Toronto-produced single, Night Moves, made it to the top of the charts in Britain. “Look for a naked Elton John sometime in the near future. The rest of the country is just waking up.” If anything, he’s been a local legend in his hometown of Detroit and most of the Midwest for almost a decade, amazingly having three of the four biggest selling albums in the history of the Detroit market, ‘Live Bullet’ is the biggest selling album of all time there, ‘Night Moves, Seger’s new album has shot to number two and ‘Beautiful Loser’, his 1974 album, is number four. Arrived? For chrissakes, the man has been playing professionally for half his life already since his first gigs as a sixteen year old in 1960. “The word is that rock singer Bob Seger has arrived. JUST FOR FUN, WHAT THE CRITICS HAD TO SAY BACK IN THE DAY…. The album went on to garner overwhelming critical praise, as well as, the hit singles “Night Moves,” “Mainstreet,” and “Rock and Roll Never Forgets.” Much of the album was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with the incomparable Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Originally released in 1976, Night Moves was Bob Seger’s first studio album with the Silver Bullet Band. Seger’s breakthrough album, powerful and personal, is the newest vinyl reissue addition to the GRAMMY® Award-winning rocker’s extraordinary catalogue. LOS ANGELES, CA - Capitol Records recording artist Bob Seger’s classic album, Night Moves, makes its debut on 180-gram vinyl on June 16, 2015. “It is simply one of the best albums of the year. Night Moves offers rock & roll in the classic mold: bold, aggressive and grandiloquent.”
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