Battling Bobs (Seger) Top Ten: Turn the Page (#5)

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Oh, I'm sure there's more than one person who's been waiting for this song to show up on the countdown. It's the favorite of many a Bob Seger fan, and I love it, too. So, not by popular demand but by the fact that it's a great song, here's today's song on my countdown of favorite Bob Seger tunes. #5: Turn the Page I used this in my countdown of songs about musicians on the road. It's a somber look at their side of things ("when you're riding 16 hours and there's nothing much to do"). It's two hours of fun, two hours of meet and greet or interviews, and 20 hours of "down time." Seger said the "same ol' cliché, 'is that a woman or a man?'" actually happened. They pulled into a truck stop to fill up and empty out, and some truckers had a laugh over a band member's long hair. (If you're not old enough to remember when long hair was fashionable in the late 60s/early 70s [not "long" like the Beatles' haircuts, mind you], that was a common "insult" hurled at a man who had long hair by the "older generation.") This is overplayed on FM rock radio, but I don't listen to FM rock radio, so I can appreciate the pain and loneliness that Seger pours out of his voice in this song....just like the music that he plays. Turn the Page Written by Bob Seger From Back in '72, 1973 Also from Live Bullet, 1976 East of Omaha: