Archive for December, 2007

A little Christmas cheer

December 13, 2007

Tonight on the Midnight Tracker, we borrow from our home blog.
Over at AM, Then FM, we’re in the midst of our “Three under the tree” series, delivering three Christmas tunes roughly each day. This is a portion of “Three under the tree, Vol. 20.”
Enjoy.
NRBQ — the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet — has been around [...]

On the verge of stardom

December 1, 2007

When Bob Seger’s “Beautiful Loser” album was released in 1975, he was 30 and had been working on the Detroit rock scene since his teens.
He’d had several regional hits, with “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” his biggest, reaching No. 17 nationally in 1968. He was well-regarded in Detroit and the Midwest as a hard-working rocker and [...]