Bob Seger Face The Promise

Bob Seger's cd, Face The Promise,released in 2006, was certainly not a disappointment to his fan that have followed the Michigan rockers career for decades. It was in true Seger form from the opening song to the last track.

The only surprise to this Seger fan, was Real Mean Bottle, which he recorded with fellow Michigan artist Kid Rock. Not being a Kid Rock fan because his style was rap music which I do not like, I was shocked at how this song grabbed me and held me. I have to say it is one of my favorite tracks of the cd. It was also interesting to hear Bob Seger say that he initially planned on recording that track in a country-style but Kid Rock told him no you have to do it in hard rocking fashion, which he proceeded to arrange in a matter of minutes and the track was recorded in two takes. This gave me a new appreciation of the musical genius and talent Kid Rock has hidden for years behind rap music. The other thing about Real Mean Bottle is that I actually like the remake of this old country song by Seger and Kid Rock better than the original. I am not big on remakes.

Face The Promise, Seger's first cd in 12 yrs, sold more than 400,000 copies in the first 45 days. It has sold over 1.2 million copies to date. The supporting tour was also eagerly awaited with many dates sold out in minutes show that Seger's appeal has not diminished, all 15,000 tickets available for his first show at Grand Rapids' Van Andel Arena sold out in under five minutes; three additional shows were subsequently added, each of which also sold out.

Seger was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and belatedly in 2006 inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Seger was born in 1945 and has been recording music since the 60s, his peak of national success started in 1976 with album Night Moves and continued through 1996 which was his last tour before taking time off to spend with his family and help raise his children.

In October 2009, Yessian Music reported on its social networking sites that Seger was re-recording his albums Smokin' O.P.'s and Seven. On October 25, 2009 it was revealed that Seger indeed had done some re-recording of older songs for an upcoming compilation album entitled Early Seger Vol. 1[14], a collection of out of print songs and also previously unreleased material. The album was released on November 24, 2009, initially exclusively available for purchase at Meijer. A week later it was available for download at BobSeger.com.