Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves [DCC Gold GZS-1028] (Repost)

Bob Seger recorded the bulk of Night Moves before Live Bullet brought him his first genuine success, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it's similar in spirit to the introspective Beautiful Loser, even if it rocks harder and longer. Throughout much of the album, he's coming to grips with being on the other side of 30 and still rocking. He floats back in time, turning in high-school memories, remembering when wandering down "Mainstreet" was the highlight of an evening, covering a rockabilly favorite in "Mary Lou." Stylistically, there's not much change since Beautiful Loser, but the difference is that Seger and his Silver Bullet Band – who turn in their first studio album here – sound intense and ferocious, and the songs are subtly varied. Yes, this is all hard rock, but the acoustic ballads reveal the influence of Dylan and Van Morrison, filtered through a Midwestern sensibility, and the rockers reveal more of Seger's personality than ever. Seger may have been this consistent before (on Seven, for example), but the mood had never been as successfully varied, nor had his songwriting been as consistent, intimate, and personal. Thankfully, this was delivered to a mass audience eager for Seger, and it not only became a hit, but one of the universally acknowledged high points of late-'70s rock roll. And, because of his passion and craft, it remains a thoroughly terrific record years later.

Although NIGHT MOVES is not often thought of as a concept album, there are definite thematic links throughout this well-constructed and thoughtful record, all of them rooted in the double-punch, call-to-arms opening of "Rock and Roll Never Forgets," which is followed by the rueful, low-key title track. The first baby-boomers were turning 30 around '76, and NIGHT MOVES is filled with ruminations on lost youth, from the heartfelt "Mainstreet" to the rockabilly rave-up cover of Ronnie Hawkins's "Mary Lou," which closes the album. That Seger approaches the aforementioned subject with more subtlety than he showed on later successes ("Against the Wind" and "Like a Rock") makes NIGHT MOVES the Bob Seger record that casual fans tend to like the best .

Album notes
Personnel: Bob Seger (vocals); Drew Abbott (guitar, background vocals); Peter Carr, Jimmy Johnson, Joe Miquelon (guitar); Alto Reed (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, flute); Jerry Luck (accordion); Barry Beckett (piano, organ, Arp synthesizer, Clavinet, melodica); Robyn Robbins, Doug Riley (piano, organ); Chris Campbell (bass, background vocals); David Hood (bass); Charlie Allen Martin (drums, percussion, background vocals); Roger Hawkins (drums, percussion); Sharon Dee Williams, Rhonda Silver, Laurel Ward (background vocals).
Producers: Bob Seger, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Punch, Jack Richardson.
Engineers include: Jerry Masters, Steve Melton, Jim Bruzzese, Brian Christian.
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama; Pampa Sound Studios, Detroit, Michigan; Nimbus Nine Studios, Toronto, Canada.


Tracks

1 Rock and Roll Never Forgets 3:52
2 Night Moves 5:25
3 Fire Down Below 4:28
4 Sunburst 5:13
5 Sunspot Baby 4:38
6 Main Street 3:43
7 Come to Poppa 3:11
8 Ship of Fools 3:24
9 Mary Lou 2:56




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