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Face The Promise, the only Bob Seger album never to have been released on vinyl, will make its debut on plastic on September 18 as an expanded version is released to mark its 20th anniversary.

Face the Promise was originally released in September 2006, after an 11-year hiatus following 1995’s It’s a Mystery. Notably, it was Seger’s first studio album since 1975’s Beautiful Loser not to feature the Silver Bullet Band, as he self-produced the project in Nashville using session musicians.

“I am so hard on myself as a songwriter,” Seger told The Northern Express in 2006. “I never really know the answer because songwriting is so mysterious. You never know when the songs are going to come. So I write a lot of them, and that keeps me from getting blocked up.

“I never get what they call writer’s block because I write all the time. When the songwriting gods are with me, that’s when the next album will come together, and I can’t predict when that is going to happen.”

The new version of Face The Promise has been remastered and expanded, and will include four songs not on the original: Time, Red Eye To Memphis, Let Me Try and Little Jane. The latter has already beren released, and can be streamed below.

Seger has also released a short behind-the-scenes video, in which he reflects onWait For Me, the album’s lead single, released in July 2006.

Face The Promise is available to pre-order now.

Bob Seger: Face The Promise (expanded edition) tracklist

LP Side 1
Wreck This Heart
Wait for Me
Face the Promise
No Matter Who You Are

LP Side 2
Are You
Simplicity
No More
Real Mean Bottle (with Kid Rock)
Won’t Stop

LP Side 3
Between
The Answer’s in the Question (with Patty Loveless)
The Long Goodbye

LP Side 4 (expanded edition bonus tracks)
Time
Little Jane
Red Eye to Memphis
Let Me Try

Sixties legends The Kinks have been the subject of reunion rumours for years, and it appears that there’s still a chance that Ray and Dave Davies, who haven’t performed onstage together for more than a decade, may reunite the band.

The brothers talk about the current state of their famously fractious relationship in a new interview with The Times, undertaken to mark the opening of The Kinks: Brothers, an exhibition in London that finds the pair collaborating with English painter Christian Furr, best known in musical circles for his paintings of the Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Kate Bush and Jimi Hendrix.

“It’s miraculous, really, how we’ve become so bonded,” Dave says, before revealing that the project with Furr has helped to thaw any remaining ice. “We were getting on great. We have fluctuated between getting on really well and not getting on at all over the years, but there’s always been telepathy, since childhood.”

Asked if a Kinks reunion is still possible, he says, “I don’t know, but never say never.”

In late 2023, Ray Davies revealed that he was sitting on a large stash of unfinished new songs by The Kinks, and that both brother Dave and drummer Mick Avory had contributed to the recordings.

“There are about two or three songs I want to finish,” he said. “And when they’re finished, I’ll put the whole thing together.”

Speculation about a possible return to action from The Kinks grew after Ray joined his brother onstage for the first time since 1996 at a show at London’s Islington Assembly Hall in late 2015, when the pair performed the classic You Really Got Me together.

The Kinks: Brothers opens today at the Gibson Garage in London and runs until September 6. The collection is based on a passport booth photograph of the brothers taken in East Finchley, North London, in 1968.