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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Bachman-Turner Overdrive-"Not Fragile" (1974)

Shortly after publishing the acclaimed "American Woman" of the Guess Who, one of its founders; Randy Bachman, leaves the band due to health problems, although in reality the reason was another cause closer to the disparity of musical criteria than anything else.
Some time later Bachman recruited his brothers Tim, Robbie and Fred Turner to start another project that they would call Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a curious name inspired by a truck magazine of the time, something that would enhance the image of a band from working class rock.
However, their first two albums were little appreciated and went unnoticed by the general public ("BTO" and "BTO 2"), and would not enter the charts for a while after being published.
For the next album Bachman takes over the production reins and puts a young guitarist named Blair Thornton in charge of the band, which is the ideal repulsive the band needed.
The result is this "Not Fragile", which published in 1974, would be the most successful album of the band, even reaching number one on the North American charts and achieving a surprising platinum record.
The album contained numerous hard-hitting and vigorous rock songs like "Roll on Down The Highway", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", "Free Wheelin" or "Not Fragile".

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