I Knew You When was released this week in 2017. Seger details how the album came to be in this snippet from a 2018 interview with Gary Graff.
GG: The album is dedicated to Glenn Frey, who of course was your good friend from the sixties in Michigan.
BS: About three months after he passed I did his memorial in L.A. That had about seven thousand people. Everyone was there โ even [original Eagles bassist] Randy Meisner and J.D. [Souther] and Bernie Taupin. I saw everybody. About a month before that I got the idea of listening to some of my old songs, and I found I Knew You When and I thought, โOh my gosh, this even sounds faintly like an Eagles song. This is perfect,โ and I said: โThatโd be a great title for a Glenn tribute record,โ yโknow? So when I saw [Freyโs widow] Cindy in LA I asked her, โWould you mind if I did that. Itโs your legacy. I donโt want to mess it up.โ
She said: โNo, Iโm sure itโll be in good hands with youโ and I said: โOkay, thatโs what Iโm gonna do,โ and that was the beginning of it. I had I Knew You When, that was it. Then I started studying the old stuff and writing new stuff and recording a couple of covers, and a year and a half later it was done.edited 04:45ย PM
The Distance was released in December, 1982- the first single off the album, a cover of Rodney Crowell's "Shame On The Moon," became Seger's highest-charting single at the time, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Even Now" was released three months later and made it to #12. What are some of your favorite tracks from the album?
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