The Guess Who - American Woman (1969) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
The Guess Who - American Woman
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: RCA Victor/LSP-4266 | Released: 1969 | This Issue: 1976 | Genre: Classic-Rock
A1 American Woman
A2 No Time
A3 Talisman
A4 No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
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B1 969 (The Oldest Man) (Instrumental)
B2 When Friends Fall Out
B3 8:15
B4 Proper Stranger
B5 Humpty's Blues / American Woman (Epilogue)
Arranged By – Guess Who, The
Design – Frank Mulvey
Engineer [Mastering] – Randy Kling
Engineer [Recording] – Brian Christian
Photography By [Back Cover] – Dave Hecht*, Nick Sangiamo
Producer – Jack Richardson
Technician [Recording] – Ed Schnabel, Russ Vestuto
Notes
Made in U.S.A.
Recorded at RCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois
Back cover photographed at Sybarites, 221 East 60th Street, New York City
Produced by Nimbus 9
Single sleeve / black labels (dog at right)
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: RCA Victor/LSP-4266 | Released: 1969 | This Issue: 1976 | Genre: Classic-Rock
A1 American Woman
A2 No Time
A3 Talisman
A4 No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
-
B1 969 (The Oldest Man) (Instrumental)
B2 When Friends Fall Out
B3 8:15
B4 Proper Stranger
B5 Humpty's Blues / American Woman (Epilogue)
Arranged By – Guess Who, The
Design – Frank Mulvey
Engineer [Mastering] – Randy Kling
Engineer [Recording] – Brian Christian
Photography By [Back Cover] – Dave Hecht*, Nick Sangiamo
Producer – Jack Richardson
Technician [Recording] – Ed Schnabel, Russ Vestuto
Notes
Made in U.S.A.
Recorded at RCA's Mid-America Recording Center, Chicago, Illinois
Back cover photographed at Sybarites, 221 East 60th Street, New York City
Produced by Nimbus 9
Single sleeve / black labels (dog at right)
The Guess Who - American Woman (1969) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
The Guess Who - American Woman (1969) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
The Guess Who - American Woman (1969) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2015
Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
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Amplifier: Marantz 2252
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Vinyl Condition: NM-
This LP: From my personal collection.
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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.Review by Bruce Eder, allmusic.com
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