Canned Wheat by Guess Who

Canned Wheat, the Guess Who's fifth studio album, came out in September 1969, with Jack Richardson producing the Winnipeg band just as they were catching fire. Burton Cummings sings, Randy Bachman plays electric guitar, Jim Kale holds down the bass and Garry Peterson drums.

Two of the band's hits come off this record, "Laughing" and "Undun", and between them they show a group that could swing from a big, aching pop hook to something moodier and looser without breaking stride. There's also the first crack at "No Time", which the band would cut again for American Woman and put out as a single. Bachman's guitar bites, Cummings has that barroom bravado in his voice, and the whole thing sits right on the line between Top 40 polish and garage-band muscle. It only reached number 91 on Billboard's pop albums chart at the time, but it has since come to be regarded as a rock classic.

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