American Woman

American Woman is the sixth studio album by Canadian rock band The Guess Who, and the last to feature lead guitarist Randy Bachman until a reformation effort in 1983. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. It stayed on the charts for over a year and was their most successful release.

In addition to the title cut (the group’s most successful song), this album also includes the number one American and Canadian single “No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature,” as well as a remake of “No Time,” a song the group previously recorded for Canned Wheat. The newer version was released as a single and is the one most familiar to listeners. The album’s musical styles consists of psychedelic rock and hard rock.

A Quadraphonic mix was available on the Quadraphonic 8-track cartridge format. American Woman was first released on CD by RCA in 1998. Buddha Records released a remastered version in 2000 and included a bonus track, “Got to Find Another Way”. In 2017, Iconoclassic Records released a two-disc deluxe version featuring various single edits, outtakes, and the entire 1976 The Way They Were release, which is a collection of tracks recorded in 1970 before Randy Bachman quit the band, intended for the follow-up album to American Woman.