Old Enough to Forget

Ironhorse was Randy's first band project since leaving Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1977. It was released in '79, coming a year after Randy Bachman had dropped his solo album Survivor . An album I bought, and tried super hard to like. It had a great cover though. Coincidentally in '79, BTO (their second album without Randy) put out their last album, Rock n' Roll Nights , an album I saw many times over the years and never bothered to pick up. I'm looking for it now, sigh. I opted to pick up Ironhorse because I had heard "Sweet Lui-Luise" a grand total of one time on the radio, and I was hooked. This was classic Randy, and I was excited to hear what else was buried in the grooves. Yes, I knew the song was a deliberate attempt to recreate "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" complete with the stutter ... but so what?  I loved that one song, but mostly I was disappointed. That's how I remember it. Let's spin this and see what shakes out. The b...