The Guess Who - So Long, Bannatyne (Vinyl)

The Guess Who proved they could weather a significant personnel change with 1970's triumphant Share The Land. The 1971 follow-up, So Long, Bannatyne saw the band branching out, embracing more eclectic and less polished and commercial material, much of it with a considerably darker hue than the band's earlier material and heavily influenced by John Lennon's visceral Plastic Ono Band. A fascinating lyrical continuity emerges that reveals a band and it's principal writers burdened by success, cynical, tormented; the result being a kind of ad hoc concept record centering around themes of desperation, anger, disillusionment and resignation, topics frontman Burton Cummings would continue to explore throughout the rest of The Guess Who's lifespan.

Tracklisting

Side A 

1. Rain Dance
2. She Might Have Been a Nice Girl
3. Goin' a Little Crazy
4. Fiddlin'
5. Pain Train
6. One Divided

Side B 

1. Grey Day
2. Life In the Bloodstream
3. One Man Army
4. Sour Suite
5. So Long, Bannatyne