Early Seger Vol. 1
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| Compilation album by Bob Seger | ||||||||||
| Released | November 24, 2009 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1972-2009 | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||
| Length | 35:21 | |||||||||
| Label | Hideout | |||||||||
| Producer | Various | |||||||||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Classic Rock Revisited | B |
| Detroit Free Press | |
| The Detroit News | B |
| Rolling Stone | (mixed) |
Early Seger Vol. 1 is a compilation album by American rock singer–songwriter Bob Seger, released in 2009 (see 2009 in music). The album, which includes archival material from the 1970s and 1980s, was released exclusively to Meijer stores on November 24, 2009. Since November 30, 2009 it has also been available for purchase at BobSeger.com, both on CD and as a digital download (in MP3 and FLAC). Eventually Early Seger Vol. 1 became available at Amazon.com on February 1, 2010. "Gets Ya Pumpin" and "Midnight Rider" are the first two singles from the album.
On October 25, 2009, the album title and cover art were revealed by photographer Tom Weschler and music journalist Gary Graff on WXYZ-TV's Action News This Morning. The compilation album was originally conceived to complement their collaborative book Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger. The photograph of Bob Seger used for the cover of the album was taken by Weschler at Detroit's Cobo Arena in September 1975 and is also featured in the book. A few days after its public revealing, the cover art for Early Seger Vol. 1 was published alongside the album's track list on Seger's official website.
The album features a collection of songs taken from three of Seger's pre-Beautiful Loser albums, some of them remixed or re-recorded in parts, and also four previously unreleased tracks. The previously available material comes from the albums Smokin' O.P.'s (1972), Back in '72 (1973), and Seven (1974), only the former being still in print. Initially Early Seger Vol. 1 would have been a compilation culled from just these three albums (hence the "Early Seger" tag), but when the project really started to take shape in September 2009, Seger made the decision to include some unreleased tracks from his archives. According to Punch Andrews, Seger worked on about a dozen unreleased songs and picked out his favorite four tracks.
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