7525 - RANDY BACHMAN - Vinyl Tap Tour: Every Song Tells A Story (2014)
RANDY BACHMAN
''VINYL TAP TOUR: EVERY SONG TELLS A STORY (LIVE)''
AUGUST 25 2014
34:35
1 Prairie Town
Randy Bachman 4:29
2 Shakin' All Over
Johnny Kidd 1:40
3 These Eyes
Randy Bachman / Burton Cummings 1:47
4 Laughing
Randy Bachman / Burton Cummings 2:15
5 No Sugar Tonight
Randy Bachman 1:36
6 No Time
Randy Bachman / Burton Cummings 2:32
7 American Woman
Randy Bachman / Burton Cummings / Jim Kale 2:26
8 Roll on Down the Highway
Randy Bachman / Robin Bachman / C.F. Turner 1:25
9 Let It Ride
Randy Bachman / C.F. Turner 2:12
10 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Randy Bachman 2:26
11 Takin' Care of Business
Randy Bachman 2:26
12 Hey You
Randy Bachman 2:10
13 Undun
Randy Bachman 2:30
14 Looking Out for #1
Randy Bachman 4:41
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Taking a page from the book Ray Davies wrote in the '90s, Randy Bachman launched the Vinyl Tap Tour: Every Song Tells a Story in 2013, designing the concert as a guided journey through his past. He sang hits from the Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and his solo career, interspersing stories along the way, adding the biographical song "Prairie Town" as a framing device. This 2014 set -- which is available in a couple of incarnations, including one that has a DVD and one that has a CD of the concert -- generally has a lower energy level than the original recordings but the relaxed vibe is part of the appeal: it's not a race, it's a nostalgic stroll with the amiable Bachman. If you're on the same wavelength as him, it's an enjoyable way to pass the time.
BIOGRAPHY
by William Ruhlmann
Randy Bachman is a Canadian rock guitarist and singer. He was born in Winnipeg and was a member of Chad Allen & the Expressions, which evolved into the Guess Who, the most successful Canadian rock band of the 1960s. He left the Guess Who in July 1970, made a solo album, Axe, and then formed Brave Belt, which evolved by 1972 into Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO). He left BTO in April 1977, made a second solo album, Survivor (1978), and then launched a new band, Ironhorse, in 1979, but was back touring with the Guess Who in 1983 and then with BTO by 1984. Another solo album, Any Road, was released on Guitar Recordings in 1993. The live Every Song Tells a Story appeared in 2002 from True North, followed by JazzThing in 2004 from Maximum Jazz. The Bachman Cummings Songbook saw the light in 2006. Also in 2006, Bachman issued a collection of unreleased Bachman Cummings project songs (originally recorded in 1987) dubbed The Thunderbird Trax. In 2007, another jazz-flavored release (JazzThing II) was issued, along with the Bachman Cummings cover album Jukebox. A DVD document of Bachman's July 7, 2007, live performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival was issued in July of 2008. For the 2008 holidays, Bachman released an album of Christmas favorites (Takin' Care of Christmas) -- with the titular track being a reworked version of the BTO classic "Takin' Care of Business."