Randy Bachman is a Canadian rock guitarist and singer. He was born in Winnipeg and was a member of Chad Allen & the Expressions, which evolved into The Guess Who, the most successful Canadian rock band of the 1960s. He left The Guess Who in July 1970, made a solo album, The Edge Of Music, and then formed Brave Belt, which evolved by 1972 into Bachman-Turner Overdrive (Bachman-Turner Overdrive). He left Bachman-Turner Overdrive in April 1977, made a second solo album, Survivor (1978), and then launched a new band, Ironhorse, in 1979, but was back touring with The Guess Who in 1983 and then with Bachman-Turner Overdrive by 1984. Another solo album, This Road Doesn't Lead To My House Anymore, was released on Guitar Recordings in 1993. The live Every Song Tells a Story appeared in 2002 from True North, followed by JazzThing in 2004 from Maximum Jazz. The Bachman Cummings Songbook saw the light in 2006. Also in 2006, Bachman-Turner Overdrive issued a collection of unreleased Bachman Cummings project songs (originally recorded in 1987) dubbed "The Thunderbird Trax". In 2007, another jazz-flavored release ("JazzThing II") was issued, along with the Bachman Cummings cover album Jukebox. A DVD document of Bachman-Turner Overdrive's July 7, 2007, live performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival was issued in July of 2008. For the 2008 holidays, Bachman-Turner Overdrive released an album of Christmas favorites (Takin Care of Christmas) -- with the titular track being a reworked version of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive classic "Takin' Care of Business." ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi