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Randy Bachman performs at the Mod Club in Toronto with Bigsby vibrato-equipped Gibson Les Paul Standard

“The Audience Was Going Nuts. They Could Feel the Electricity Happening”: Randy Bachman Reveals How a Broken Guitar String Led to the Guess Who’s 1970 Smash “American Woman”

By Joe Bosso published

Decades on, this accidental hit song remains a benchmark of guitar tone and continues to inspire

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The Guess Who circa 1970. (from left) Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale and Garry Peterson

“On Paper, the Song Shouldn’t Have Worked at All”: How Randy Bachman Wrote His Favorite Guess Who Track, “Undun”

By Joe Bosso published

The guitarist reveals the influence of Lenny Breau, Bob Dylan and the Zombies in the 1969 hit

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Randy Bachman with a selection of guitars from the ‘Randy Bachman: Every Guitar Tells a Story’ exhibition

“The Guitar Is the Most Personal Instrument of Them All”: Randy Bachman Teams With National Music Centre for Epic Guitar Exhibition at Calgary’s Studio Bell

By Rod Brakes published

The ‘Randy Bachman: Every Guitar Tells a Story’ display features over 80 of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive founder’s treasured axes

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Randy Bachman

The Incredible Tale of Randy Bachman’s Long-Lost Gretsch

By Tim Hornyak last updated

After a 46-year search, the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive founder was reunited with the guitar that made him a star

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Lindsay Ell performing at the Troubadour on December 07, 2019 in West Hollywood, California

No One Works Harder to Keep Guitar in the Nashville Sound than Lindsay Ell.

By Jim Beaugez published

The Canadian country star talks Strats and touring with A-listers.

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