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Your Sister’s (Record) Rack: The Guess Who

Posted in Lost Classics! with tags , , , , , , on November 19, 2009 by 30daysout

The other day my sister brought home one of her friends from the fast-food place where she works.  Betty is her name, and she and my sister went out in the back yard to get some sun.  I really like the way Betty wears a bikini, and I really like her taste in music: while they were out in the sun I “borrowed” one of Betty’s albums that she brought over, Road Food by the Guess Who.

The Guess Who are those Canadian boys who had all the hits back in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  You know, “Share the Land,” “Undun,” “No Time” and of course, “American Woman.”  They were not so well known for their albums, but I don’t know why.  There’s a lot of good stuff on Road Food, which is from 1974.  The Guess Who had been goin’ for a while, since the early 1960s, and had a handful of hits by the early 1970s.  Keyboardist Burton Cummings, who sang on most of these, had actually joined the band after original lead singers Chad Allan and Bob Ashley left.  Cummings wrote most of those late 60s-early 70s hits with guitarist Randy Bachman, but by the time of Road Food Bachman had left (to start Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and was replaced by guitarist Kurt Winter.

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