Name: I Knew You When CD by Bob Seger 1Disc
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I Knew You When CD by Bob Seger 1Disc

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Album: I Knew You When CD by Bob Seger 1Disc
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Gracile	More Info...
2)	Busload of Faith	More Info...
3)	The Highway	More Info...
4)	I Knew You When	More Info...
5)	I'll Remember You	More Info...
6)	The Sea Inside	More Info...
7)	Marie	More Info...
8)	Runaway Train	More Info...
9)	Something More	More Info...
10)	Democracy	More Info...
11)	Forward Into the Past	More Info...
12)	Blue Ridge	More Info...
13)	Glenn Song	More Info...

Album: I Knew You When CD by Bob Seger 1Disc
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Gracile	More Info...
2)	Busload of Faith	More Info...
3)	The Highway	More Info...
4)	I Knew You When	More Info...
5)	I'll Remember You	More Info...
6)	The Sea Inside	More Info...
7)	Marie	More Info...
8)	Runaway Train	More Info...
9)	Something More	More Info...
10)	Democracy	More Info...
11)	Forward Into the Past	More Info...
12)	Blue Ridge	More Info...
13)	Glenn Song	More Info...

Performer Notes

Mortality is on Bob Seger's mind on I Knew You When, an album dedicated to his departed friend Glenn Frey. I Knew You When contains two tributes to Frey -- the sepia-toned title track and "Glenn Song," the latter available only on the album's Deluxe Edition -- but the onetime Eagle isn't the only dead rock star to haunt the album. Seger covers Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen, both selections -- "Busload of Faith" and "Democracy" -- nodding to the American mess of 2017, another element that adds a sense of immediacy to the record. Despite these undercurrents of sentiment and politics, I Knew You When can't quite be called a meditative, melancholy record, not with roughly half the record devoted to fist-pumping arena-fillers that feel piped in from several different eras. "Runaway Train" is confined by a robotic pulse that channels "Shakedown," "The Highway" is dressed with '80s synths, and "The Sea Inside" is a clumsy nod to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir," sounds that not only fight with Seger's protests and tributes but fight with each other. These old-fashioned album rockers are so loud and awkward, they overshadow the excellent singer/songwriter album that lurks at the core of I Knew You When. Such imbalance makes I Knew You When a bit incoherent, yet in its quietest and angriest moments, it offers some of the best music Seger has made in the 21st century. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine