Fire Lake
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| Single by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | ||||
| from the album Against the Wind | ||||
| B-side | "Long Twin Silver Line" | |||
| Released | January 1980 | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl | |||
| Genre | Rock, Heartland rock | |||
| Length | 3:30 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Bob Seger | |||
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band singles chronology | ||||
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"Fire Lake" is a song written and recorded by American musical artist Bob Seger. Seger planned to record "Fire Lake" for his 1975 album Beautiful Loser, but the track was not finished. The song had been partly written years before, in 1971, and was finally finished in 1979 and released in 1980 on Seger's album Against the Wind. It reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. A much appreciated live rendition of the song also has been made.
Seger and colleagues decided to make "Fire Lake" the first single from Against the Wind because it was "totally and unequivocally unlike anything I'd ever done before."
Three of the Eagles provided the backing vocals for this track: Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit. Seger's recording engineer David Cole makes reference to the song on his website when he talks of his history with Seger: "I was there when the Eagles sang 'Who wants to go to Fire Lake?' and many other great moments during the Stranger in Town album".
The song is mentioned by Stephen Colbert in an interview with Eminem about Michigan´s musical heritage.
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