★★★★★
It seemed like a promising idea: Inspired by the late great guitarist Lenny Breau, Randy Bachman sheds his rock 'n' roll skin and revisits his jazz roots. Unfortunately, the idea falls well short of its potential. Bachman, of course, can make his six-string sing, but the 60-year-old veteran has never been an expressive vocalist. So it's curious that his often colourless crooning takes centre stage on most of this set. Brave, perhaps. Effective, not exactly...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
On March 16, 17, and 18th, the Guess Who's Garry Peterson played drums on the solo album Axe by Randy Bachman. This is significant because the Guess Who with Randy Bachman recorded their final studio album that same month in the same facility, RCA Studios, Chicago. This album was also co-engineered by longtime Guess Who engineer Brian Christian. It is a brilliant instrumental work, highlighting the importance of Bachman to the band he was in the process of leaving...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
"Made in Canada" is the closing and crowning achievement of Bachman's latest Merge -- the revitalized follow-up to 1993's Any Road. Ironically, a collaboration with Neil Young was also Any Road's highlight, and "Made in Canada" sounds like the fully-mature follow-up to that disc's "Prairie Town." Young's inspired, live-off-the-floor knife-slashes here (which Bachman himself compares to "Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey") equal any string-bending he's done to date...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Although they have had their songs covered, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are not known as a songwriters the way that Bacharach/David or Lennon and McCartney are. They were not known as professional songsmiths, nor were they bandleaders whose tunes were covered frequently even as their own band remained active...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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