Which country is the band that originally recorded "American Woman" from?
"American Woman" wasn't written so much as overheard. A broken guitar string led to an accidental riff, and the singer freestyled a full set of lyrics about war machines and ghetto scenes on the spot. The only reason any of us heard it again is a kid in the audience who bootlegged the show on cassette. The band that originally recorded "American Woman" is from which country?
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Correct Answer: Canada
(Source)The song you've heard at every Fourth of July cookout for fifty years was freestyled on stage at a curling rink in Ontario, which is the most Canadian sentence I'll write this year. Randy Bachman of The Guess Who calls it an anti-war protest, while Burton Cummings insists it was actually about American girls "aging faster" than the ones back home (his words, not mine). For a song nobody really wrote, and nobody agrees on, becoming the first Canadian band to top the Billboard Hot 100 was a hell of an accident.
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