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PUBLISHED: Monday, February 4, 2008

By Gary Graff
Of The Oakland Press


GRAND RAPIDS -- A Kid Rock concert? That means dancing girls. Giant Confederate flags. Plenty of pyrotechnics. Until this year.


For his Rock N Roll Revival Tour, supporting his chart-topping 2007 album "Rock N Roll Jesus," the Clarkston-based rocker has trimmed the glitz and pimp-of-the-nation trappings -- the extraneous concert bling, if you will -- and has focused instead on the music, with a revue-style spectacle that draws in spirit on the rock and soul packages of the '60s and winds up being a fresh and engrossing

Kid Rock


February 01, 2008, 1:00 PM ET


Gary Graff, Detroit
A few shows into his Rock And Roll Revival tour, Kid Rock is proud of -- and a little surprised by -- what he's wrought on the road.


"After the first show, we were all like, 'I can't believe this thing worked!'" says Rock, who's incorporating guests such as Run-DMC's Rev. Run (Joseph Simmons), J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf and, later, former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickie Betts with his expanded Twisted Brown Trucker Band into one long, revue-style presentation each night.