Smokin’ O.P.’s by Bob Seger

Smokin' O.P.'s, Bob Seger's fifth studio album, came out in 1972 and dragged him back to rock and roll after the detour of Brand New Morning. The Detroit-area rocker spends most of it on other people's songs, and the title says so: it's a riff on the slang for smoking other people's cigarettes, only here what he's bumming is the material, and he sings every note like it's his own.

Punch Andrews produced, and "If I Were a Carpenter" and "Hummin' Bird" were cut and mixed at RCA Studios in Toronto. "Heavy Music" is the sort of hard-driving rock and roll Seger was built for. The cover, a spoof of the Lucky Strike logo, came from his road manager Thomas Leroy Weschler, and early pressings carried a poem by Seger. Capitol reissued it on CD in 2005, making it the earliest Seger album you can get on disc. A year later he put together the Silver Bullet Band.

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