Regardless of Night Moves, commercial success, the album’s focus on heartfelt lyrics, and fiery well-written blues-rockers helped Bob Seger deliver perhaps the finest record of his career. The success of “Night Moves,” seemed to inspire a string of mainstream hits as Bob Seger followed up the album with the four Top 40 singles including the much covered ballad “We Got Tonight,” from his Stranger in Town album. The album sold extremely well and captivated Seger into mainstream pop culture. Two of the album’s three singles broke the Billboard Top 40 charts. It could be argued that “Night Moves,” was Bob Seger’s finest work. The section consisted of a group of studio musicians from Alabama that were well known for their work on countless big time blues and soul records. Half the tracks on the album featured the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The album’s first single reached No.4 on the Billboard Music Charts in 1977. Photo: By radioactv915 (originally posted to Flickr as Bob Seger), via Wikimedia Commons Bob Seger’s Night Moves album was released on October 22, 1976.
To go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets In the deep heart of the night we cut loose from everything
Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton’s Wing Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy Even on paper, one can see the inspiration. However, it was Springsteen’s lyrical content and his passionate vocals that clearly inspired Bob Seger. Bob Seger had that Midwest dirty rock and roll sound as opposed to the polished production of Born To Run. From fans to rock stars, Bruce Springsteen turned the rock and roll world upside down with Born to Run.īob Seger’s music had a much more raw stripped-down sound than Springsteen’s. Everyone was inspired by Bruce Springsteen. When I first heard Bob Seger’s “Night Moves,” single in 1976, I could instantly hear the inspiration that Bob Seger had found in Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run album. And, because of his passion and craft, it remains a thoroughly terrific record years later.Feature Photo: Bart Sherkow / Shutterstock 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. 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. 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. 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. Throughout much of the album, he's coming to grips with being on the other side of 30 and still rocking. 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.
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