Before he was penning American anthems used to peddle Chevy flat beds, Bob Seger was "against the wind" trying to make it as a hard-edged devout Detroit blues rocker that flirted with psychedelic musical elements. His 1968 debut (as The Bob Seger System) is a surprisingly solid opus featuring a modestly successful radio hit with Glen Frye on background vocals and a stew of Hammond organ dominated fuzz rock tracks and folky tangents. Oddly enough some of these tunes have elements of of funk ("White Wall") and weird beat-filled psych freak outs ("Doctor Fine") that made this piece hip with the Soul Strut crowd.

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