Like a Rock

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Track listing

1. "American Storm" – 4:17
2. "Like a Rock
   Like a Rock (song)
   
   "Like a Rock" is the title song written by United States singer-songwriter Bob Seger and included on his 1986 Like a Rock album.It charted at #1 on the United States Mainstream Rock Tracks, #12 on the United States Billboard Hot 100, #21 in Adult Contemporary and #33 in the Canada charts....
   " – 5:56
3. "Miami" – 4:40
4. "The Ring" – 5:35
5. "Tightrope" (Frost, Seger) – 4:31
6. "The Aftermath" (Craig Frost, Seger) – 3:30
7. "Sometimes" – 3:31
8. "It's You" – 4:03
9. "Somewhere Tonight" – 4:25
10. "Fortunate Son
    Fortunate Son (song)
    
    "Fortunate Son" is a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their album Willy and the Poor Boys in 1969. It was released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner," in September 1969....
    " (John Fogerty
    John Fogerty
    
    John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
    ) – 3:20

Personnel

Silver Bullet Band

• Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
   - acoustic guitar, guitar
  Guitar
  
  The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  , piano
  Piano
  
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  , vocals
  Singing
  
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  
• Craig Frost
  Craig Frost
  
  Craig Frost is the keyboardist for Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band. However, he is best known as keyboardist for 1970s hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad....
   - organ
  Organ (music)
  
  The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
  , synthesizer, piano, keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  
  A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
  
• Chris Campbell - bass
  Bass guitar
  
  The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  
• Alto Reed
  Alto Reed
  
  Alto Reed is the long-time saxophone with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. His most recognizable performances include the soulful introduction to "Turn the Page " and the saxophone solo in "Old Time Rock and Roll"....
   - baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
  
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the larger and lower pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax....
  , tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
  

Additional musicians

• Dawayne Bailey
  Dawayne Bailey
  
  Dawayne Bailey is an United States guitarist who has toured and recorded with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band and Chicago .Bailey was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas....
   - acoustic guitar, guitar, electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  
  An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
   on "Like a Rock"
• Pete Carr - guitar on "American Storm"
• Dann Huff - guitar on "Sometimes"
• Fred Tackett
  Fred Tackett
  
  Fred Tackett, a native of the U.S. state of Arkansas, is a guitarist, mandolinist and trumpeter with the band Little Feat.In addition to his work with the Little Feat, Tackett has played and recorded with many notable artists....
   - acoustic guitar, guitar on "The Ring" "Sometimes" "Somewhere Tonight"
• Rick Vito
  Rick Vito
  
  Rick Vito is a guitarist and singer. He was part of the band Fleetwood Mac between 1987 and 1991.Vito and Billy Burnette took over as guitarists after Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac....
   - acoustic guitar, guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar
  Slide guitar
  
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide is in reference to the sliding motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides, which were the necks of glass bottles....
   on "Like a Rock" "Miami" "The Ring" "Tightrope" "The Aftermath" "Somewhere Tonight"

• John "J.R." Robinson - drums on all tracks except:
• Russ Kunkel
  Russ Kunkel
  
  Russell Kunkel, also known as Russ Kunkel, is a drummer and Record producer who has worked as a session musician with a number of well-known artists....
   - drums on "American Storm" "Like a Rock"
• Gary Mallaber
  Gary Mallaber
  
  Gary Mallaber is a Los Angeles session musician drummer, percussionist and singer. He got his start playing drums in a band from Buffalo, New York, known as Raven ....
   - drums on "The Ring"
• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussion instrument born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio and television commercials....
   - percussion
  Percussion instrument
  
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
   on "Miami" "The Aftermath" "It's You"

• Bill Payne
  Bill Payne
  
  Bill Payne is a founding member of critically acclaimed United States rock and roll band , Little Feat. He is considered to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues musicians by many other piano rock musicians, including Sir Elton John....
   - synthesizer, piano, keyboard on all tracks except "Tightrope"
• David Cole - synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequency....
   on "It's You"

• Gary Grant - trumpet
  Trumpet
  
  The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
   on "Miami"
• Gary Herbig - saxophone
  Saxophone
  
  The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
   on "Miami"
• Jerry Hey - trumpet on "Miami" "The Aftermath" "Sometimes"
• Kim Hutchcroft - saxophone on "Miami" "Sometimes"
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. - trombone
  Trombone
  
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
   on "Miami" "The Aftermath" "Sometimes"
• Marc Russo - saxophone on "Miami" "The Aftermath" "Sometimes"
• Ernie Watts
  Ernie Watts
  
  Ernie Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist....
   - saxophone on "Miami" "The Aftermath" "Sometimes"

• Laura Creamer - background vocals on "Tightrope" "The Aftermath" "It's You" "Somewhere Tonight"
• Mark Creamer - background vocals on "Tightrope" "The Aftermath" "It's You"
• Donny Gerrard - background vocals on "Tightrope" "The Aftermath" "It's You" "Somewhere Tonight"
• Don Henley
  Don Henley
  
  Donald Hugh " Don " Henley is an United States rock music singing, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful Grammy Award-winning solo career....
   - background vocals, harmony vocals "Miami"
• Shaun Murphy - vocals & background vocals on "Tightrope," background vocals on "The Aftermath" "Somewhere Tonight," harmony vocals on "Sometimes" "It's You"
• Timothy B. Schmit
  Timothy B. Schmit
  
  Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American bass guitar player and singer best known as a member of Poco and the Eagles....
   - background vocals "Miami"
• The Weather Girls (Izora Armstead
  Izora Armstead
  
  Izora Rhodes Armstead was one half of the 1980s pop music group the Weather Girls.Born Izora Rhodes, she linked up with Sylvester James and Patrick Cowley in San Francisco, California in the late 1970s as a backing vocalist, along with Martha Wash....
   and Martha Wash
  Martha Wash
  
  Martha Wash is an Contemporary R&B, soul music, house music, and dance music singer/songwriter known for her distinctive and powerful voice....
  ) - background vocals on Like a rock, Tightrope and The Aftermath.

Production

• Producers: Punch Andrews, David Cole, Bob Seger
• Engineers: David Cole, Greg Edward, Shelly Yakus
• Assistant engineers: David Azelbaum, Bob Castle, Judy Clapp, Peter Doell, Steve Himelfarb
• Mixing: Punch Andrews, David Cole, Bob Seger
• Mastering: Wally Traugott
• Horn arrangements: Jerry Hey, Alto Reed
• Art direction: Bill Burks, Roy Kohara
• Design: Mark Shoolery
• Photography: Aaron Rapoport

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