ON TOUR WITH RANDY BACHMAN

Five Star reviews are making every night of the"Every Song Tells a Story" tour a sellout. . . . .

“….superlative live retrospective…combining the intimacy of an Unplugged album with the casualness of a Storytellers set. (The stories are) engagingly told with humility, warmth and wit.… Bachman's approach breathes new life into old material and gets you to listen to familiar tracks like No Time, Hey You, Let it Ride and No Sugar Tonight with fresh ears and renewed enthusiasm. His long-serving band pulls off superb renditions of the tracks…
Every Song Tells a Story is a far more essential keepsake for Bachman fans than some typical live album or best-of. For the whole story, though, get the DVD from www.randybachman.com. It has all the tracks on the CD, along with plenty of old pictures, live footage and even two versions of the Prairie Town video featuring Neil Young…

Darryl Sterdan, Winnipeg Sun,
November 2002

Available Now - Every Song Tells A Story

Every Song Tells A Story is sort of Randy Bachman unplugged. But there's nothing acoustic about Bachman's oeuvre. Even in these subdued renditions these songs rock. The video was compiled from two shows Randy and his band played in Vancouver last April. I had an opportunity to attend, but was on the opposite side of the country. The people who did attend look like they had a great time.

The show starts with Bachman's last hit. Recorded originally in two versions with Neil Young on guitar and vocals, "Prairie Town" is a history of Bachman, the Guess Who, Neil & the Squires, and the development of a rock scene in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It's a wonderful place to start. Then Bachman turns back the clock to cover the Guess Who days, and BTO, in depth. The new band is excellent. Colin Arthur Wiebe plays keyboards, guitar and sings most of the lead parts that were originally done by Burton Cummings. Mick Dalle-Vee plays bass, Roge Belanger drums, and everyone sings. They are tight but maintain a spontaneous approach to the music. Between songs Bachman tells the story of the song's origin, or fills the audience in on legend and history. He published an autobiography two years ago, and has combined all this retrospection into a fascinating stage show. Every Song Tells A Story indeed.
    Available together for the first time ever - the hits of The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive -- woven together with some highly entertaining stories by the man behind the music -- Randy Bachman. Over a dozen top 10 hits performed by Bachman and his band during a live "unplugged" concert set, recorded in Vancouver in April 2002. The arrangements are hot and the stories behind the songs are absorbing as Randy tells the often-humorous anecdotes behind some of the biggest pop music hits of the last 30 years. Tracks include: No Sugar Tonight, Undun, Let it Ride, These Eyes, Laughing, Four Wheel Drive, No Time, American Woman, Hey You, Looking out for #1, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Takin Care of Business, Shakin All Over.

Every Song Tells a Story (CD & DVD) True North / Universal They say good writers copy and great ones steal. In that case, the ones who own up to it oughta be best of all. That would put Randy Bachman right at the top of the heap, judging by his superlative live retrospective Every Song Tells a Story. Combining the intimacy of an Unplugged album with the casualness of a Storytellers set, this 76-minute disc features the newly svelte Bachman strolling down memory lane as he spills the beans about where all those Guess Who and BTO classics came from. Laughing? An old Bee Gees tune, with an extra finger on the fretboard. Undun? An old Bob Dylan lyrical snippet, set to jazz chords Lenny Breau taught him. Taking Care of Business? A combo of The Beatles' Paperback Writer, Santana's Oye Como Va and a deejay's patter. And there's about a dozen more where those came from, each engagingly told with humility, warmth and wit. More than simply entertaining, though, Bachman's approach is also savvy -- it breathes new life into old material and gets you to listen to familiar tracks like No Time, Hey You, Let it Ride and No Sugar Tonight with fresh ears and renewed enthusiasm. The fact that his long-serving band pulls off superb renditions of the tracks -- and features keyboardist, Colin Arthur Wiebe, who sounds uncannily like the old Burton Cummings -- doesn't hurt either. Informative, interesting and endearing, Every Song Tells a Story is a far more essential keepsake for Bachman fans than some typical live album or best-of. For the whole story, though, get the DVD from www.randybachman.com. It has all the tracks on the CD, along with plenty of old pictures, live footage and even two versions of the Prairie Town video featuring Neil Young. Why two versions? Well, that reminds us of a story ...