“Turn the Page” by Bob Seger

Bob Seger wrote "Turn the Page" in 1972, on the road with Teegarden & Van Winkle, and put it on his album Back in '72 the next year, produced with Punch Andrews for Capitol. It's a slow, brooding look at the highs and lows of a rock musician's life on tour, what the road does to you on the inside and how the world looks at you on the outside, sung in Seger's weary, gravel-road growl.

Drummer David Teegarden has recalled the kind of night it came from, an all-night drive out of the Detroit area through a blinding snowstorm toward a gig in the Dakotas, with guitarist Mike Bruce at the wheel and the long-haired musicians tucking their hair into their hats before a truck-stop fuel stop. It didn't come out as a single until the live take on Live Bullet in 1976 was released in Germany and Britain, but album rock radio made it a mainstay anyway, and classic rock stations still play it.

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