“Let It Ride” by Bachman Turner Overdrive

"Let It Ride" rolled off Bachman-Turner Overdrive II in 1973 and hit the singles racks in 1974, and it gave BTO their first taste of the American Top 40. The story behind it is pure road-dog lore: touring behind the Doobie Brothers, the band's AMC station wagon got hemmed in on the highway by a couple of trucks, and when everybody pulled into a rest stop and the musicians went to have it out, the truckers told them to cool down and let it ride.

Randy Bachman and Fred Turner wrote it, and Turner takes the gritty lead vocal over a chugging bed of guitars from Randy and Tim Bachman, with Robbie Bachman keeping the beat and Randy producing. Cash Box heard a hard rocking outing, and nobody's arguing.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.