With songs such as “Turn the Page,” “Travelin’ Man,” and “The Highway,” the Michigan-born rocker also became synonymous with open-road anthems. One of his biggest came in 1983 with “Roll Me Away.”
Released as a single in May 1983, “Roll Me Away” became a summer Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 27, 1983. Forty-three summers later, it remains a road-trip anthem inspired by a real-life ride.
Bob Seger was inspired by a motorcycle trip to Wyoming
“That was written about a motorcycle trip I took to Jackson Hole, Wyoming,” he revealed. “I wanted to do that for a long time. It was fascinating being out. The first night it was 42 degrees in northern Minnesota; the second it was 106 in South Dakota, and all I had on was my shorts, and my feet were up on the handlebars to keep them from boiling on the engine.”
Seger has long maintained his love for driving and motorcycles in particular. In 2011, he told Huff Post, “I love to go out on my motorcycle alone.”
Seger, now 81, retired from touring in 2019, but out of his entire catalog of songs, he chose “Roll Me Away” as the theme when he hit the road for the final time. Seger’s Roll Me Away: The Final Tourwrapped in November 2019.
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