American Woman

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艺人: The Guess Who
语种: 英语
厂牌: Buddha
发行时间: 1970年01月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Bruce Eder

The Guess Who's most successful LP, reaching number nine in America (and charting for more than a year), has held up well and was as close to a defining album-length statement as the original group ever made. It's easy to forget that until &American Woman,& the Guess Who's hits had been confined to softer, ballad-style numbers -- that song (which originated as a spontaneous on-stage jam) highlighted by Randy Bachman's highly articulated fuzz-tone guitar, a relentless beat, and Burton Cummings moving into Robert Plant territory on the lead vocal, transformed their image. As an album opener, it was a natural, but the slow acoustic blues intro by Bachman heralded a brace of surprises in store for the listener. The presence of the melodic but highly electric hit version of &No Time& (which the band had cut earlier in a more ragged rendition) made the first ten minutes a hard rock one-two punch, but the group then veers into progressive rock territory with &Talisman.& Side two was where the original album was weakest, though it started well enough with &969 (The Oldest Man).& &When Friends Fall Out,& a remake of an early Canadian release by the group, attempted a heavy sound that just isn't sustainable, and &8:15& was a similar space filler, but &Proper Stranger& falls into good hard rock groove. In August of 2000, Buddha Records issued a remastered version of this album with a bonus track from a subsequent session, &Got to Find Another Way.& Ironically, American Woman was the final testament of the original Guess Who -- guitarist/singer Randy Bachman quit soon after the tour behind this album; the group did endure and even thrive (as did Bachman), but American Woman represented something of an ending as well as a triumph.

American Woman

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