Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release (6-29)

BURTON CUMMINGS TO APPEAR ON TALK OF THE TOWN WITH TRACY LUNDEEN THIS SATURDAY MORNING

Duluth, MN ….This Saturday morning Burton Cummings, lead singer of The Guess Who (1965 to 1975) who sang, wrote and co-wrote some of the biggest hits of that era including “American Woman,” “No Time,” “Share the Land,” “Hand Me Down World,” “Undun,” “Laughing,” “Star Baby”, “No Sugar Tonight,” and “These Eyes” will appear on Talk of the Town with Tracy Lundeen.

After a nearly 20 year absence from the recording studio Cummings has released a new album titled “Above the Ground.” Above The Ground, marks 20 years since his last such album was released in the U.S.
Canadian rock royalty, Cummings had enjoyed seven previous solo studio albums from 1976 to 1990. North of the border, four of them went double platinum or better, and two others gold, including 1990's Plus Signs. That album boasted two of his six Top 10 Canadian Adult Contemporary hits in a solo career that has seen 16 Top 40 AC hits -- two #1s among them. The 1994 retrospective The Burton Cummings Collection was subsequently a best-seller. Cummings then toured with a reformed version of The Guess Who from 2000 to 2003, and since 2005 has occasionally performed and recorded with Randy Bachman, co-founder of the original group (and later of Bachman-Turner Overdrive), as the Bachman-Cummings Band, which released a pair of albums and toured with Bon Jovi.
Cummings is revered in his homeland: In 2009 he was named to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor, given to those with a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation.

In addition to talking about the new album Lundeen and Cummings will touch on the Guess Who’s early years including regional music influences and their appearances at the Duluth National Guard Armory.

The interview, scheduled to air at 7:30AM this Saturday morning can be heard on KOOL101.7FM or www.kool1017.com.


For additional information contact Tracy Lundeen at 218-727-1177