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 ...

Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English ... We really have to talk about Bob Seger. He earned credibility with that washboard voice, the Detroit hardscrabble image, the callback to roots ...

Alto Reed, the saxophonist whose signature hooks and swashbuckling stage moves made him a star of Bob Seger's Silver Bullet ... an assist from road manager Tom Weschler, who encouraged him to ...