The Guess Who - American Woman (1970) torrent

Artist...............: The Guess Who
Album................: American Woman
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 1970
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: Flac
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 277 Mb
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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.
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Tracklist
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01. 01. American Woman
02. No Time
03. Talisman
04. No Sugar Tonight-New Mother Nature
05. 969 (The Oldest Man) (Instrumental)
06. When Friends Fall Out
07. 8:15
08. Proper Stranger
09. Humpty's Blues American Woman (Epilogue)
10. Got To Find Another Way (Previously Unreleased)