★★★★★
This transparent egoist has had a way with a song ever since the Guess Who days, but the hard rock moves always seem to bring out the sexism in him--a sexism especially repellent because it serves as an outlet not for forbidden class animosities but rather for the familiar old arrogance/self-hate. So it's gratifying that his way with a song should desert him this time.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
"Stand Tall" was a deserving hit that generated a great follow-up: "I'm Scared," the uncommitted prayer for faith of a skeptic who knows the religious tensions of a materialistic epoch firsthand. But when a slickie like Cummings turns rock crooner, credibility is a continuing problem, and while everything else on this honestly crafted solo debut is passable or better, the only other cut I'd call convincing is a big-band mock-up of former small-bandmate Randy Bachman.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Former Guess Who mainstay Burton Cummings emerges on his first solo album as a nouveau riche smoothie with enough smarts to lay the groundwork for a lucrative MOR future. And to help effect the transition, he has found the ideal producer in Richard Perry, whose classy arrangements, with their punched up drums, add a dramatic backdrop to very ordinary songs and vocal performances...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The split between Guess Who frontman Burton Cummings and guitarist Randy Bachman was legendary, as their "musical differences" became well-aired dirty laundry for all to see. Yet both went on to further successBachman in the AOR gods BTO, and Cummings as a solo artist. On his eponymous debut, Cummings even took a shot at his larger than life partner with a cocktail lounge version of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," stuttered lyrics and all.
Cummings wasn't going to make college girls swoon li...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Winnipeg native, Burton Cummings is perhaps best known from his days as the lead singer/songwriter for the legendary Guess Who. From his days with The Guess Who to his successful solo career, Cummings has managed to make himself something of a Canadian icon. Now, for the first time, his third solo recording and most commercially successful album, "Dream Of A Child", is available in newly remastered version...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Burton Cummings unplugged, in a fashion, performing 18 songs from throughout his career on solo piano. Recorded in December 1995 in front of a small but very vocal and appreciative audience. The repertoire includes reprises of old Guess Who hits (including "Undun," where Cummings sounds, probably unintentionally, like a lounge singer deliberately taking the piss out of the tune) and a cover of "Ferry Cross the Mersey," as well as the brief and weird "Gordon Lightfoot Does Maggie May...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Burton Cummings is perhaps best known from his days as the lead singer/songwriter for the legendary Guess Who. From his days with the Guess Who to his successful solo career, the Winnipeg native has managed to make himself something of a Canadian icon. His fourth solo recording, Woman Love, is finally available in a newly remastered version and released for the first time in the configuration Cummings had originally wanted it to be...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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