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Bob Seger‘s career trajectory nearly mirrors Bruce Springsteen‘s, his main competition in the late ’70s for the heartland-rock audience. Both singer-songwriters started in the late ’60s in garage ...

Bob Seger had been kicking around the Detroit music scene, releasing a handful of low-selling albums, for almost a decade before people really started paying attention to him. His rough, ...

Any artist who can boast a 23-year stretch between his first and last Top 40 single clearly has left a massive impact on the music scene, and that’s especially true in the case of Bob Seger, when you ...

Artists usually don’t have their breakthrough nine albums and a decade or so into their recording career. But then again, when an album is as wonderfully realized as Night Moves, which was released in ...

"Old Time Rock and Roll"-er, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Michigan icon Bob Seger turns 80 years young on Tuesday, a landmark birthday for the poet and patron saint of Michigan rock. Seger has been ...

Randall Deaton had the idea of recasting Bob Seger songs in a bluegrass style many years ago — during the late 2000s, in fact, when he was working with artists such as Ralph Stanley II and the band ...

Let’s raise a birthday toast to Bob Seger, who turns 80 today. He might be the only great American rock star who likes everybody in his songs. He’s not judging anyone in “Fire Down Below.” He hopes ...