“Roll Me Away” by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

"Roll Me Away" comes off The Distance, the record Bob Seger made with the Silver Bullet Band, and it's a song with real road dust on it. Seger wrote it after finally taking a motorcycle trip he'd long wanted to make, out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming: 42 degrees the first night in northern Minnesota, 106 the next in South Dakota, Seger in nothing but shorts with his feet propped on the handlebars to keep them off the hot engine, and around him just silence and open country.

Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh heard an anthem and rated it Seger's best single, a song about walking out of a broken home toward a life that's supposed to be better and never quite is. It stuck with Seger too: he opened the Face the Promise tour with it in 2006 and 2007, his first time on the road in a decade.

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