October 17, 2014
BOB SEGER – Ride Out [Target Deluxe Edition]
Arriving a mere eight years after the decade-in-the-making Face the Promise, Ride Out nearly feels rushed by Bob Seger‘s latter-day standards.
At 34 minutes, it’s brief and nearly half of its ten songs were composed by songwriters other than Seger, two characteristics that would suggest something of a patchwork job if it weren’t for the fact that in the days before the Silver Bullet Band, Bob used to regularly split his brief albums between originals and covers. In its construction, Ride Out mirrors early albums like Back in 72, but it comes from the days after the Silver Bullet Band, the days when Seger surrounded himself with highly paid professional musicians who didn’t leave a note out of place. Oddly, even with all the pros aboard again, Ride Out feels like the homespun work of an old millionaire rocker, a record that prefers to amiably ramble instead of driving full-speed ahead. Often, Seger sticks strictly to his wheelhouse — a charging rendition of John Hiatt’s “Detroit Made” is textbook Seger, from its fist-pumping chorus to its rapturous odes to bucket seats — but he’s just as likely to veer into gutbucket blues (the hard-hitting “Hey Gypsy,” his best original here) or country story-telling (Steve Earle’s “The Devil’s Right Hand” and Kasey Chambers’ “Adam and Eve,” the two best covers here). Unfortunately, this light restlessness is somewhat undone by Seger’s surprisingly chintzy self-production, which alternates between anonymous gloss and constrictive sequenced synthesizers, the latter reaching a tacky peak on the stilted title track where a four-on-the-floor drum loop vies for attention with canned electronic horns. Other stumbles can be found, such as the well-intentioned and mercilessly literal pro-environmental anthem “It’s Your World” (“Let’s talk about mining in Wisconsin/Let’s talk about breathing in Beijing”), and while there’s some charm in the fact that Seger is loose enough to keep his ends untied, Ride Out is hobbled by that exacting production: conceptually, it’s something of a ragged mess and it’d benefit from sounding like one.
01. Detroit Made (3:48)
02. Hey Gypsy (2:32)
03. The Devil’s Right Hand (3:49)
04. Ride Out (3:08)
05. Adam and Eve (3:15)
06. California Stars (4:45)
07. It’s Your World (3:19)
08. All of the Roads (3:36)
09. You Take Me In (2:36)
10. Gates of Eden (3:48)
11. Listen (3:21)
12. The Fireman’s Talkin’ (2:47)
13. Let The Rivers Run (3:52)
14. It All Goes On (3:41)
15. Passing Through (4:48)
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NEIL YOUNG - Academy Of Music Philadelphia, PA USA - 10/09/2014
2014-10-09 Academy Of Music
Philadelphia, PA USA
set 1 (51:27)
From Hank To Hendrix
On The Way Home
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
I'm Glad I Found U
Mellow My Mind
Reason to Believe
Someday
If You Could Read My Mind
Harvest
Old Man
set 2 (77:16)
Pocahontas
Heart Of Gold
Plastic Flowers
A Man Needs A Maid
Ohio
Southern Man
Who's Gonna Stand Up?
Mother Earth
When I Watch You Sleeping
Harvest Moon
After The Gold Rush
Encore
Thrasher
NEIL YOUNG - Academy Of Music Philadelphia, PA USA - 10/08/2014
2014-10-08 Academy Of Music
Philadelphia, PA USA
set 1 (51:30)
From Hank To Hendrix
On The Way Home
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
I'm Glad I Found U
Mellow My Mind
Reason to Believe
Someday
If You Could Read My Mind
Harvest
Old Man
set 2 (71:23)
Pocahontas
Heart Of Gold
Plastic Flowers
A Man Needs A Maid
Ohio
Southern Man
Who's Gonna Stand Up?
Mother Earth
When I Watch You Sleeping
Harvest Moon
After The Gold Rush
Encore
Thrasher
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