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Uploaded by on Feb 18, 2008

Persecution Smith by Bob Seger

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  • I lived the Detroit scene all my life, heard all the protest songs, loved most of them but this was the big dog! A fellow Dee-troit boy that took the Folk era protest movement into a rockin' Protest era! He was brilliant in lyrical statement, heady in musical sound and helped to solidify Detroit as Major contributor to the times! Take this and 2+2 and what more needed to be said? Then again sorta glad others spoke out...And it's1-2-3...ring a bell?

  • @centexboiz

    you're right! the b-side IS "Chain Smoking" (on Cameo/Parkway records)

  • Amazing to write a song about Dick Cheney before anybody ever heard of him.

  • @MIKECNW No. Just released as a single. It showed up on a couple of compilations years later.

  • @centexboiz It was...you can find it on some compilations of Detroit Rock and Roll....I have a copy of it if you are interested

  • I had this 45 in first grade. It was my sisters. I could have sworn the B side was Chain Smoking, but I can't find that anywhere.

  • Damn this is the first Bob Seger song I ever heard and I didn't even know it was his until now....always loved this song....

  • Was this also from Ramblin Gamblin Man?

  • Rockin'! Seger's earliest work is just as mature as his latest, and is among the best of 6Os rock. I think this song dusts anything Hendrix, Joplin, and the Doors ever did. Soul, brains, energy and sound.... Seger's always had it all.

  • I saw Bob Seger and the Lost Heard perform this at the Painesville Armory, Ohio, probably in '67. He introduced it as "our next single." It knocked me out, just killed me. Never heard it again and have been looking for it ever since. I had begun to think they never released it. Thanks for posting.

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