Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Bachman-Turner Overdrive [1973]

Ben Davies called Bachman-turner Overdrive's first album a "fusion of Lynyrd Skynyrd-style Southern/trucker rock and Zz Top's anthemic arena rock," and with their logo imprinted in a big metallic gear which looks like it inspired James Cameron's Terminator trademark, Randy Bachman, his brothers Tim and Robbie, and C.f. Turner dish out a methodical mix of plodding hard dirges. They took the Brave Belt beginnings and followed them to the harder extremes, a focus on blue-collar working men's music without the swagger of Michigan's Grand Funk Railroad. Read More