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Episode 15: Bob Seger: "You try to touch something universal in the lyric"

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Today, one of rock’s great storytellers celebrates his 81st birthday.

Bob Seger gave a voice to the restless, and the ordinary people just trying to hold it together — turning small-town memories and long lonely highways into songs that still hit home.

HOT1027’s Tara Penny takes a look...
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