If one bums cigarettes (instead of buying a pack), one could be said to be smoking the brand OP’s (for Other People’s). This is an album with two original songs and seven OPs. I found out today that the E. Anderson with song-writing credit for Let It Rock was Charles Edward Anderson Berry. For years I thought it was the folk singer Eric Anderson who had perhaps won a bet that he could write a tune that sounded just like Chuck Berry. I love the Innertubes.
Seger doesn’t sing many songs of the ‘I love my baby and my baby loves me’ type. His are more of the ‘failed high school passion viewed 10 or 20 years down the road’ type. So it was a change to hear him sing Love the One You’re With. I like it, but Seger went back to the ‘wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then’ songs.
For years, Seger did everything he could to limit the availability of his first five albums. We’ve all done some things we regret later, but I’m saying Smokin’ OP’S is something to be proud of.
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