This has been a hectic week with my granddaughter's birth, an infected tooth (since extracted), dog sitting (see granddaughter's birth), filling two huge trades (no PWEs here), and organizing my card inventory. So as part of my break from life I searched YouTube for concert or music videos and there's some great stuff out there.
I have some favorite (or should I say, favourite?) Canadian artists that I listen to regularly and enjoy both their songs and lyrics. Neil Young would probably rate as my favorite followed by either Bruce Cockburn or Gordon Lightfoot. Rush was a late comer into my musical life and I'm still not really familiar with their music, though I do get a lot of information on my newsfeed about them.
But I came across The Guess Who (they'd slipped my mind as great Canadian artists) when this version of "American Woman" came up as a choice on my YouTube search. Guess Who fans know that there's a longer album version (and a reprise at the end) to the edited and shortened Top 40 hit from the '70s, but this newer version from a live concert in their hometown of Winnipeg knocked my socks off. Burton Cummings has a unique voice, but the thing that stood out to me was Randy Bachman's virtuosity on guitar. I have never associated him as a great guitarist, but he is! If you watch the whole concert (and I did) you get a taste of this man's greatness. He can handle the six string for rock and jazz. And what always amazes me by fantastic guitarists is the ease with which they play. They included a few acoustic versions of BTO, too, which I thought was a special touch.
There are those special songs that miraculously transform you to a previous era, and when "No Time" was done during the encore, I was back in Mineral Wells, Texas, in junior high.
It's inspired me to listen to The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive over the next few days.
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