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 ...

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These rock songs are some of the most famous tunes from 1979. And yet, somehow, they never hit No. 1 on the charts.

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, ...

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 ...

Kurt Vile is a virtuoso of self-pity. As a songwriter, he paints more shades in this particular spectrum–industrial silver, steel-blue, watery gray–than just about anyone. His newest record, Smoke ...