Featured Work of the Week - Bob Seger - Ride Out

It's been a pretty good few months for those of us who like music that doesn't have a beat, or horrific language, or the rap voices.

First there was the free U2 record.

Then the Mellencamp record.

Then Melissa Etheridge and now new records by Bob Seger and Neil Young and even freaking Pink Floyd.

It feels like 1988.

I heard about the Seger record and then listened to an interview by the Detroit rocker. I considered purchasing the record with a few clocks of the thumb through I-tunes.

(I still don't like buying records like that, by the way).

And then I thought:

Maybe I'll wait until I hear a couple of tracks.

But I couldn't.

I ordered the record quickly and it downloaded instantly. Within 5 minutes of having the thought I was listening to that old familiar voice.

The songs played one after another.

I liked that one, I thought.

And I repeated that thought 13 straight times.

I like it.

I like it.

I like it.

All good songs with good lyrics and damn his voice is Still the Same.

I thought of what Seger had said during the interview.

He wasn't releasing music because he thought he'd be a big star again.

He's 70 years old!

He wasn't releasing the music because he was dying to go on tour - although he'll be doing that - he was releasing the music because he wanted to and because he thought there were things he still needed to say.

And that's when the music means a little something.

So make a couple of thumb clicks and grab the new Seger record.

It's worth the effort, for sure.