The old white guys of rock and roll are on a roll. Last year, the ancient Stones released their best album in 25 years. This year, we've had Springsteen maintaining his usual level of high quality; we've had Tom Petty coming out with his best work in about a decade; we've had Neil Young re-energized like he hasn't been in about 15 years; we've had Bob Dylan acting and performing like the legend and Hall-of-Famer that he is. And now, 61-year old Bob Seger has released an album that maintains a level of consistency that he hasn't matched since the late 1970s. And this, after having taken about a dozen years off to raise a couple of kids.
Elton John has a new one coming out tomorrow, a sequel to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, if you can believe it, and a new Who album is on the horizon. Dare we hope?
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