1. Detroit Made
2. Hey Gypsy
3. The Devil's Right Hand
4. Ride Out
5. Adam And Eve
6. California Stars
7. It's Your World
8. All Of The Roads
9. You Take Me In
10. Gates Of Eden

Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
11. Listen
12. The Fireman's Talkin'
13. Let The Rivers Run

Standard Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N1W3NF8/?tag=imwan-20

Deluxe Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NBXFAYY/?tag=imwan-20

No details except this story in today's Billboard.com:

Bob Seger Plots New Album, March Tour Dates
by Gary Graff, Detroit | January 27, 2011 7:00 EST

Bob Seger is coming with a new album and tour this year -- and that's about all we know about them at this point.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer announced on Thursday (Jan. 27) that he'll be hitting the road in March for his first tour since 2006-07. He also promised a "forthcoming, as yet untitled new release" that's expected to come out shortly before or during the trek.

Seger plans to reveal the concert dates in the near future. He has posted a 42-second teaser on his official web site and YouTube mixing music and archival visuals with a U.S. map highlighting Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and New York.

Seger first announced his intent to tour last May in a Detroit radio interview. A fall tour was tentatively planned and then withdrawn when Seger decided to spend more time recording. He and his Silver Bullet Band began rehearsing for the tour last week in the Detroit metro area.

Seger played 50 shows on his last tour, which promoted his then-new album "Face the Promise." Since then he's released the partly retrospective "Early Seger Vol. 1" in 2009.

Bob Seger debuts new song 'Downtown Train'

Feb. 28, 2011
By BRIAN McCOLLUM
DETROIT FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER

Bob Seger fans got a present today.

With a new tour and album around the corner, the Detroit rocker this morning delivered his first new music in more than four years: a cover of Tom Waits’ “Downtown Train.”

It’s classic soulful Seger, gritty and soaring at once, a guitar-and-piano band arrangement that deftly channels the song’s yearning mood.

Seger’s rendition of the much-covered Waits song was in the works for more than two decades. He first cut the song in 1989, four years after Waits’ original, but chose to shelve the recording when Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck beat him to the streets with a version that wound up in Billboard’s Top 10.

Seger has continued to tweak and update the recording, resulting in the final version that hit Detroit airwaves this morning.

The track will be included on his not-yet-titled new album, tentatively due this summer. It’s also a sure bet to appear on his spring tour, set to kick off March 26 in Toledo.

“Downtown Train” is the fourth Waits song tackled by Seger, following covers of “Blind Love,” “New Coat of Paint” and “16 Shells from a 30-6.”

Detroit dates have still not been announced, but Seger’s itinerary so far — which has him traversing the East Coast before heading back to the Midwest — seems to indicate hometown shows will come in late May.

“Downtown Train” will be posted this afternoon at BobSeger.com.

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Direct link - http://www.bobseger.com/stream/article/display/id/4760

Tour Dates are now posted at http://bobseger.com/tour/

The tour lists 17 dates and starts on March 26 in Toledo. The tour ends May 14 in Chicago. There is a 2 week gap between the Houston show and the last show in Chicago on the 14th so some dates may be added.

The stops include Toldeo (twice!), Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Toronto, Boston, Atlantic City, Little Rock, Houston, Greensboro, Tulsa, Atlanta and Nashville. No metro NYC shows. The Boston tickets are $72.50 plus service fees. For Boston the fan club pre-sale starts Thursday and the Public On-Sale is Saturday at 10am.

Great version of this song, but I don't know that it qualifies as new, since the vocals are over 20 yrs. old.

No Pittsburgh shows? Hmmm....Pittsburgh was always proud of how well they supported Seger and how there was a 'connection' there. Guess not any more. Not that I'd have gone anyway - saw him in the 80s or 90s and was pretty disappointed.

Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad was on Bob & Tom today and said he'd be touring w/the Silver Bullet Band on this tour.

He's finally releasing "Downtown Train"?
I remember that was a point of contention between him and Rod Stewart years ago. They were talking at a party,
and Seger told Stewart about this great Tom Waits song that he was about to record. Stewart recorded it right away and
beat Seger to the punch (no pun intended! lol) in releasing his own version. It was said Seger was really pissed off about it.

That's Bob's version of events. Rod's differs somewhat...
Rob Dickins on WEA suggested Rod record it. and tells this story in one of Rod's biographies.
Rod admits he and Bob spoke and it came up that they had both done it..Guess we'll never know the truth.

What's it matter anyway? Patty Smyth covered it before either of them-not like it was an original idea. Rod's version is really good though and Seger's is good as well.
Nothing like the original song though-one of many brilliant Tom Waits songs.

Will Bob Seger retire after tour? He contemplates going out on top

Mar. 23, 2011
BY BRIAN MCCOLLUM
http://www.freep.com/article/20110323/E ... ng-out-top



The scene could come in late May, when Bob Seger's tour wraps up at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

There would be an encore, a bow, and a big, familiar smile.

And then Seger would turn and walk off the stage for the final time.

Nothing is firm yet. But with his tour kicking off Saturday in Toledo and his 66th birthday on the way, the iconic Detroit rocker has begun to contemplate the end of an onstage career that began nearly 50 years ago.

The decision, steeped in emotion, will be made in the next few weeks.

"I'll know how I feel physically," he tells the Free Press. "Because you can't cheat Father Time forever, and..." His voice trails off. "And yeah. It could very well be the last one."

Seger has been making rock 'n' roll in Michigan for a long time. It's a half-century trail that has run, by his account, through "so many high schools, gymnasiums, cafeterias, little clubs, Up North, out West, you know, you name it -- everywhere."

But "I've just got to be realistic," he says. And so we may be approaching one of the most poignant milestones in the history of Detroit rock: the night Bob Seger played his last show.

Seger has two names for you: Frank Sinatra and Al Kaline.

The first one, Seger says, may have pushed it just a little too long. Seger remembers the chatter that surrounded the elderly Sinatra's final concert tours: Yeah, he can't sing anymore, but I'd still go see him.

"I don't want to be that," says Seger. "You know what I mean? I'd rather that people just have a nice memory of me."

So as he approaches Saturday's tour kickoff, the veteran rocker has in mind Kaline, the beloved Detroit Tiger who hung up his ball cap at age 39, still an All-Star right fielder.

"I always felt like Kaline. He was still great when he retired, and you still think of him in reverential terms," Seger says. "I'd like to go out like that too, where I can at least still sing a little bit."

Seger's eight-week spring tour with his Silver Bullet Band, scheduled to wrap up May 17 and 19 at the Palace of Auburn Hills, has come rather quickly in Seger terms, just four years since his last run of shows. Decade-long gaps had preceded his previous two tours -- absences that only made the hometown mythology grow.

This time he got the road itch as he dove into his back catalog to rustle up songs for Early Seger Vol. 1, a 2009 album of vintage material. (A second volume is still in the works, he says.) Amid rehearsals with the Silver Bullet Band, he began writing new material, and the 2011 plan was hatched: He'd tour in the spring, with a new album to follow by year's end.

One of the old tracks he had discovered in storage in Birmingham -- his 1989 recording of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train" -- was pulled out, polished up with new parts and released in February to prime fans for the tour. The song just cracked the top 30 of Billboard's adult contemporary chart.

Seger and the band spent February and March rehearsing at Kid Rock's country studio outside Clarkston, then moved into the Palace this week for several days of sound and light runs.

The old high notes have left his neck and shoulders sore, and he's even taking a few tips from his teen daughter's vocal coach. Seger says the performances are as exhausting as they are exhilarating.

So while he's pumped for this tour -- a two-hour, hits-heavy set -- he's also thinking ahead to May, when he'll play metro Detroit in what could be his final shows ever.

Seger hasn't ruled out another string of dates this fall -- he doesn't like amphitheater acoustics and definitely won't tour in summertime -- but he says his body will make the final decision.

"And I'm not looking forward to it," he says. "I'm sure it's like anybody who's considering retirement. I mean, I've just got to get my head around it and say, hey, I had a great run. Not many get to last as long as I did, and get to be relevant as long as I was.

"And you know -- I've been blessed. But it's time to go away and let the younger people take over, the Eminems and Kid Rocks of the world."

I saw the Face The Promise tour at the Forum. Bless his soul, he was still rockin' hard, though the show was top-heavy with L.A. heavyweights dropping on stage for cameos (Don Henley, Patty Loveless, Kid Rock, Slash, etc. etc.). His catalog is just too big now to do it justice in a 2-hour show (read: just the hits). No going deep for nuggets like "Long Twin Silver Line," "Love's The Last To Know," or the like. FORGET about anything pre-Silver Bullet Band. Also saw him at the same venue in '73, '74 and '76, so this last one was a nice bookend.

Can't say I like that version of "Downtown Train" much. Way too triumphant and upbeat for a song of such melancholic longing. On "Raindogs" Waits mixes up the lines from a couple verses and everybody since has dutifully repeated the mistake, even though it doesn't make much sense. I don't think these guys are paying a lot of attention.

Saw Seger way back in 78 or 79. Great show.

I certainly hope Detroit isn't the last stop on this tour. How do you NOT play New York City on what may be the last live shows?

Any clue as to whether he'll have The Silver Bullet Band backing him up this time around? Their excellent contributions where sorely missing from his last release. They just take what he already does well musically and make it better sounding, IMHO!

Nothing wrong with reviving a 3+ year old thread, is there? (A mod will need to change the thread title )

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... r-ride-out

Bob Seger will be releasing Ride Out, his first new album in eight years -- and possibly his final studio album ever -- on Oct. 14.

The set follows 2006's platinum-certified Face The Promise, which broke an 11-year drought, though Seger has also released new music on the interim compilations Early Seger Vol. 1 in 2009 and Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets in 2011.

Seger produced Ride Out and recorded it at studios in Nashville and suburban Detroit, and he says in a statement that, "I feel really good about this record. This album touches on how I think a lot of us feel about finding our place in a more complicated world -- from how we appreciate things as simple and pure as love, to navigating through the corruption and violence that permeates the news. It sums up a lot of feelings I have about a variety of subjects."

A full track list has not yet been released for Ride Out but the set will include a rendition of John Hiatt's "Detroit Made" that he released to radio last week, as well as the original "All of The Roads" and a cover of the Wilco/Billy Bragg/Woody Guthrie song "California Stars" -- all three of which Seger previewed during his spring 2013 concert tour. Other songs he's mentioned recording include "Wonderland," "Ride Out" (once in the running to be the title track) and "Gates of Eden."

It may also be Seger's final word as a recording artist; last year he told Billboard that with his 70th birthday looming in May of 2015, "I don't know how much more there is to prove. I wouldn't mind putting out one more record, one last swan song. That's all I'm concerned with right now is trying to make that as good as it can be, and then we'll look at everything else and play it by ear. I've had a great career. It's been a great run. I don't want to overstay my welcome."

Seger, who's sold more than 51 millions albums and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame, is planning to tour in support of Ride Out, though no dates have yet been revealed.

Someone at Billboard must have cut and paste this article together, because it's disjointed. Note that the album is reported to be called "Ride Out" and then note the following line...

Other songs he's mentioned recording include "Wonderland," "Ride Out" (once in the running to be the title track) and "Gates of Eden."

Here's a look at the cover art.

Hmmm...very bright, but I'm a huge fan of Monument Valley, so I do like it.

It's bad enough when just the music is overly bright. Now this?

At least it's not brickwalled...

That would ruin the view of the mountains.