Containing, of course, their most successful single of the same name, American woman is a micture of the more rocking version of The Guess Who as well as their trend towards balladeering.

This Cisco release aims to reproduce the best possible sound sourced directly from teh master tapes. By all account is cleans up on the original release.

But what od the music.

I am somebody who loves a great voice, and Burton Cummings, on lead vocals here, has that. His vocals are a pleasure to listen to. Ironically, in my opinion, these are not shown off to best effect on the single, American woman, where Burton's voice is somehwt stretched and turns up as a cut down version of Robert Plant over a strong repeated guitar riff.

I far prefer the more crooner like songs, No time where Cummings sounds like a 50's vocalist. He sings the verses where these wonderful Byrdsian harmonies chime in for the choruses. This is thesong I find myself singing in the shower and when driving around. Still here, we have the strong electric guitar playing of Randy Bachman who later went on to form Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Simple acoustic guitar provide the background for talisman which sounds like a medeaval country ballad. Or possibly Led Zeppelin before they get electric.

Side one finishes off with two songs segued into one.'No sugar tonight' provides the rockier first half while 'New mother nature' is one of the catchiest songs i have been lucky enough to hear. I love this song. Despite the lrical content, I find the choruses wonderfully uplifting.

Side two doesn't contain such gems as above but continues the band's style of half rockin' and half croonin'.

I'd say the recording is not the most impressive in the world but this vinyl pressing extracts all that is there. It comes in a nice gatefold sleeve with lyrics printed in the middle. Plastic lined inner sleeve.

Now all I want is Cisco to release Canned Wheat!