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Apr 25, 2007
Bob Seger Web Store
Get your official tour merchandise in the the first ever Bob Seger Web Store!
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Oct 03, 2006
Tour Dates Announced!
On November 8th, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band will launch their first concert tour in 10 years at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bob announced the tour on the Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday! The dates of the first leg of the tour are below:
Grand Rapids, MI 11/8/06
Saginaw, MI 11/10/06
Charleston, WV 11/14/06
Milwaukee, WI 11/16/06
Indianapolis, IN 11/18/06
Knoxville, TN 11/20/06
Cincinnati, OH 11/25/06
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN 11/28/06
Chicago, IL 11/30/06
Kansas City, MO 12/2/06
St. Louis, MO 12/4/06
Atlanta, GA 12/7/06
Nashville, TN 12/9/06
Louisville, KY 12/12/06
Pittsburgh, PA 12/14/06
Cleveland, OH 12/16/06
Venues will be announced soon!
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Sep 27, 2006
Tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman
Tune in tonight to watch Bob Seger perform "Wreck This Heart" on The Late Show with David Letterman! Check your local listings for more information.
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Sep 21, 2006
Bob on Extra Tonight!
Be sure to tune in to Extra tonight to catch Bob Seger talking about "Face The Promise"! Click here for more information.
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Sep 20, 2006
"Face The Promise" debuts at #4 on the Billboard chart!
"Face The Promise" lands on the Billboard 200 album chart at #4 with over 150,000 units sold! This marks the highest chart debut for the legendary rocker. Congratulations to Bob!!
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Sep 12, 2006
"Face The Promise" In Stores Today
Bob Seger's long awaited album, "Face The Promise" is available everywhere today. Pick up a copy at your local record store, or purchase it on iTunes!
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Aug 31, 2006
Bob on Entertainment Tonight
Tune in to catch Bob Seger talking about Face The Promise, his first studio album in 11 years, on Entertainment Tonight on Monday, September 4th! Check your local listings for more information.
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Aug 30, 2006
Bob Seger to perform on Jay Leno
Bob will be performing for the first time on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday, September 14th. Check your local listings for station and airtime. Don't miss it!
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Jul 28, 2006
Voice of America: A Rock n' Roll Legend's Long Awaited Return!
On September 12, 2006, Capitol will be releasing Bob Seger's highly anticipated first studio album in 11 years, "Face The Promise". "Face The Promise" is a return to Seger's classic form: urgent, honest, rousing, timeless - a new and compelling testament to rock and roll's undying redemptive power.
Seger has sold nearly 50 million albums in his career, and this new record marks the start of a new chapter in a songbook that has captured the dreams, ideals, yearnings and truths of the American experience for a remarkable 40 years!
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May 03, 2005
Seger Will Release Remastered Smokin' O.P.'s June 7th
Fans have kept Bob Seger’s Greatest Hits album on the charts since its 1994 release (it was #8 on Billboard’s Pop Catalog chart for the week of May 7th - its 550th consecutive week on the charts). Now Capitol Records is responding to requests from the Detroit rocker’s online fan community for reissues of Seger’s more obscure works by releasing a newly remastered version of his 1972 release, Smokin’ O.P.’s, on June 7th.
With a career spanning almost 40 years and nearly 50 million records sold, Grammy winner Bob Seger is known for his extraordinary depth of songs that capture both the hope and the heartbreak implicit in the American Dream. With the release of Smokin’ O.P.’s, he took a month long break from songwriting and constant touring to record an album of rock classics with Teegarden & Van Winkle of “God, Love and Rock & Roll” fame. (The title is Seger shorthand for “smoking other people’s songs.”) The album was recorded at Pampa Studios in Detroit which resided in the basement of the Pampa Lanes Bowling Alley. The bowlers had to be stopped from time to time in order to record the tracks. As Punch Andrews, Seger’s longtime manager, recalls “sometimes the bass was enhanced by the rumble of the bowlers on Lane 17”. As Stephen Thomas Erlewine notes on allmusic.com:
“…it [Smokin’ O.P.’s] reveals that Seger isn't just a first-class bandleader and rock songwriter, but that he's a terrific interpreter of other writer's songs. Even well-worn tunes like ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘If I Were a Carpenter’ get made fresh by internalizing the hooks, turning them into something fresh and original. That's also true of songs by such contemporaries as Stephen Stills (‘Love the One You're With’) and Leon Russell (‘Humming Bird’), and he also breathes fire into blues and rock stalwarts like ‘Let It Rock,’ ‘Turn on Your Love Light,’ and ‘Jesse James.’”
In addition to his funk-rock interpretations of some of rock’s best loved standards, Smokin’ O.P.’s included a “cover” of his own “Heavy Music” and “Someday,” which Seger had recently penned about the hardships encountered in the music industry.
Seger made his Capitol debut in 1968 and has remained with the label ever since - except for a three-year break. Touring almost continually, Seger set up his own distribution company, Palladium, for the release of Smokin’ O.P.’s. With the success of the single “If I Were A Carpenter,” an immediate hit in Detroit, Seger’s career seemed to be rejuvenated. In fact, the record began to take off so well that independent distributors like Arc Jay Kay and AMI Distributors were screaming for more records. When Seger and company ran out of resources to press records, they signed on to the Reprise label for distribution through Warner Bros., but by the time Warner Bros. plants were up and running the momentum had passed and Seger would have to struggle for three more years before his music would receive widespread commercial success.
The track listing for Smokin’ O.P.’s is as follows:
1. Bo Diddley/Who Do You Love
2. Love The One You’re With
3. If I Were A Carpenter
4. Hummin’ Bird
5. Let It Rock
6. Turn On Your Love Light
7. Jesse James
8. Someday
9. Heavy Music
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