Bachman & Turner
Bachman and Turner
Review by Gary Hill
Bachman and Turner are, of course, best known for Bachman Turner Overdrive. That band created a lot of hits, but I remember hearing some of their albums and thinking that everything sounded the same. They seemed a lot of the time like a one-trick pony. Well, this album proves that there’s a lot more to these guys than the simple staple rocker that became their style. Sure, you’ll hear a lot of that blues based hard rock here, but there is jazz in the mix (Randy Bachman was in The Guess Who and they had a lot of jazz in their sound) and they really do manage to vary things quite a bit throughout the set. This is a great disc that should please old-time fans of BTO, while perhaps earning these guys some new ones.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2010 Volume 5 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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