The Guess Who: Power in the Music
Gene Sculatti, Creem, October 1975
RIGHT OFF THE BAT, the one thing you can say for Power in the Music is that it is everything last year's predecessor Flavours wasn't, i.e. a successful assimilation of new guitarist and co-songwriter Dom Troiano into the operating structure of a band well into its second decade.
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