BTO Songs : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Let It Ride” (Bachman-Turner Overdrive BTO Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

    By Jim Fusco:

    Welcome to yet another edition of The Laptop Sessions with, you guessed it, another new band to music video series!  Jeff, Chris, and I have really been turning up the heat on the new bands lately- I’ll be featuring another new one on Friday this week.  And I’ll give you a hint- let’s just say that today’s song is the first in my week of songs that start with “Let It”.  Now, remember, I already did “Let It Be” by the Beatles- that was one of my first ever Laptop Sessions cover songs.  So, we’ll wait until Friday to see what I pull out of my bag of tricks!

    Today’s cover song is another one of those, “I was obsessed with it in high school”, tracks alongside last week’s “Temptation Eyes”.   I hope to do more songs from BTO in the future, but I have to be careful to transpose them from heavy electric to acoustic.  This one, I thought, was less about the great electric guitar and more about the great vocals.  I decided to up the passion on the vocals to account for using only an acoustic guitar.

    We’re really moving along here on the music video blog- I’ve had a bit more (unexpected) time to work on this stuff, and with the efforts of Jeff and (especially) Chris, we’ll be getting hundreds of new viewers every day.  I can feel it- we’re right on the cusp.  I hope the extra work I did today will push us over the edge.  Either way, you can bet that we’ll keep doing great acoustic rock cover songs and continue to surprise you with new bands all the time!



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Bachman-Turner Overdrive Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

After songwriter Randy Bachman had creative differences with his first new rock music band, the Guess Who, he started a new rock band with songwriter Fred Turner called Bachman-Turner Overdrive. The new music that these songwriters made took them to all-new heights. Studio recordings and live versions, as well as acoustic songs and acoustic covers, of “Takin’ Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” are available currently as free videos through a YouTube videos search. These music videos, as well as music reviews, stand as evidence for the significance and impact that this Canadian new rock music songwriting team – they certainly know how to write a song! – has had on contemporary rock and pop music. If you listen to new music, especially that of the seventies, you probably already know the hits of BTO! Acoustic tabs and mp3s of their songwriting pieces are available across the web, and their sound has become familiar as one of a set of acoustic guitar music songwriters who came of age in the late seventies. Although this songwriting team has had breakups in the past, Bachman-Turner Overdrive is still considered active to this day and fans can only hope that there will be new rock music – new recording sessions – very soon!