The title song from this collection has been knocking around for a few years now, an enjoyable retinseling of the 70s hit "Takin' Care of Business" by its creator, the former Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist, singer and songwriter. The rest of the album comes to us for 2008, a collection of classic carols and popular songs with one more original from Randy, "Shop Till You Drop," a nicely rocked-out anthem to the commercial side of the holiday. And though the rest of the songs reflect a fairly conventional take on the holiday, the journeyman rocker puts plenty of effort into it, keeping the whole thing nicely uptempo all the way through. "Frosty the Snowman" is a particularly driving number, and he puts a mild reggae beat behind a spaghetti-Western instrumental take on "Sleigh Ride." He even trots out "Merry Merry Christmas Baby" in a crunchy BTO-styled take on the old doo-wop classic. If you haven't thought much about Bachman since his big hit days, you'll pick up right where you left off with this.
Takin' Care of Christmas, Randy Bachman (Avalon)
The title song from this collection has been knocking around for a few years now, an enjoyable retinseling of the 70s hit "Takin' Care of Business" by its creator, the former Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist, singer and songwriter. The rest of the album comes to us for 2008, a collection of classic carols and popular songs with one more original from Randy, "Shop Till You Drop," a nicely rocked-out anthem to the commercial side of the holiday. And though the rest of the songs reflect a fairly conventional take on the holiday, the journeyman rocker puts plenty of effort into it, keeping the whole thing nicely uptempo all the way through. "Frosty the Snowman" is a particularly driving number, and he puts a mild reggae beat behind a spaghetti-Western instrumental take on "Sleigh Ride." He even trots out "Merry Merry Christmas Baby" in a crunchy BTO-styled take on the old doo-wop classic. If you haven't thought much about Bachman since his big hit days, you'll pick up right where you left off with this.
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