Hey Gypsy

Album: Ride Out (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • Bob Seger wrote this Texas swing-styled tune in homage to the late blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. "I was such a huge fan of his," Seger told The Detroit News. "I called the players in Nashville, and I said, 'I want you to play as close to Stevie Ray as you can.' The guitarist Kenny Greenberg, whom I was working with at the time, he brought a special amp in that made him sound exactly like Stevie Ray! We even got Stevie Ray's old organ player, Reese Wynans. That's the first time I used him, and he's on everything (on the album) now."
  • Seger originally rehearsed the song for his 2011 tour but it never made it on the set list.

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  • Mike from San Carlos, CaThis songs rocks! Stevie would be proud.
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