from Rolling Stone enciclopedia of Rock and Roll

Biography

Bachman-Turner Overdrive parlayed workmanlike heavy metal, a blue-collar image, and nonstop touring into over 7 million records sold in the U.S. by 1977. The group - in various personnel combinations - has retained an impressive following in its homeland, where Randy Bachman is a respected guitar hero and successful solo artist.

Guess Who founders Chad Allan and Randy Bachman had left that group in 1966 and 1970 respectively [see entry]. After Bachman made a solo album (Axe, 1970), he teamed up with Allan and younger brother Robbie Bachman in Brave Belt. After two albums (Brave Belt I and Brave Belt II), Tim Bachman and vocalist/bassist Fred Turner replaced Allan, and Brave Belt became Bachman-Turner Overdrive, named in part after the truckers’ magazine Overdrive.
Randy Bachman tours occasionally with the reconstituted Guess Who (the latest reunion occurred in 2000) and also records as a solo artist. Nineteen-ninety-three’s Any Road (Sony, Canada), his first solo album of the decade, featured guest appearances by the guitarist’s protégé from their early days in Winnipeg, Neil Young, on “Prairie Town,” and by the Cowboy Junkies’ Margo Timmins. Young also showed up on Bachman’s 2000 album Merge (True North, Canada). By the late ’90s he was working as a songwriter for hire, commuting between his Canadian home, London, and Nashville. His son, Tal Bachman, released a self-titled album on Columbia in 1999.

from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)