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Bachman Cummings performing “American Woman” in Winnipeg, Aug. 28, 2021

Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings have finally begun their 2022 reunion tour that so far comprises just seven Canadian dates. (See the itinerary below.)

To get you up to speed: the pair had announced a “Together Again” 2020 tour of the U.S. and Canada all the way back on Feb. 24, 2020, for that summer. U.S. dates had previously been pushed to 2021; as of July 21, 2022, none are scheduled in the States. The Canadian shows were also planned for 2021 but postponed to 2022 due to the COVID restrictions.

The Guess Who mainstays were finally able to perform one concert in 2021. On a Saturday night, (August 28), the pair played a 19-song set in their hometown of Winnipeg, featuring tracks from the Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Cummings’ solo career. For the most part, they’ve been replicating that at their 2022 shows.

Among the classic rock favorites are “American Woman,” “Takin’ Care of Business,” “These Eyes,” “No Sugar Tonight,” “Stand Tall,” “Share the Land” and “Roll On Down the Highway.” [Their 2021 performance was part of a free outdoor concert, Manitoba Unite 150.]

At the August 28, 2021, concert, Cummings said to the audience, “To come back and play all those songs, most of which we wrote here in our hometown… you’ve been wonderful.” The entire performance was filmed, though he didn’t indicate when or where it would be shown.

Watch them close their Aug. 28, 2021, set with a BTO favorite

Watch them perform several favorites in July 2022

Things went so well at several reunion performances over the summer of 2019 that Guess Who fans were eager to see the legends finally share the stage again. The 2020 tour was another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The pair issued a statement on August 5, 2021. “It is with regret Bachman Cummings announce the cancellation of the US leg of their highly anticipated tour ‘Together Again – Live In Concert,’ scheduled to occur this September.

“While Randy and Burton have been looking forward to reuniting for their fans throughout the United States, they extend their love and appreciation to all of the fans that were planning to come to these shows, and they cannot wait to see you all again when things are more predictable in terms of travel in and out of Canada.”

Watch them perform BTO’s “Let it Ride” in July 2022

Cummings’ Facebook page had frequently indicated, “More dates will be added.”

“This is the one that changed everything for us,” he said, before they performed “These Eyes” at the Aug. 28 Winnipeg concert.

No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature Clap For the Wolfman Laughing You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet Albert Flasher Hand Me Down World Hey You Undun My Own Way to Rock Roll On Down the Highway These Eyes Let It Ride Lookin’ Out For #1 Sour Suite Stand Tall Break It to Them Gently American Woman No Time

Encores Share the Land Takin’ Care of Business

“We’re the two guys who wrote and sang these songs and I think people know that and want to hear the real thing. Bachman Cummings are out there delivering that,” said Cummings, in a statement in February 2020. “Not all artists are lucky enough to have this kind of staying power. Randy and I are able to touch Guess Who, BTO and Cummings solo stuff. We still have an audience that wants to hear those songs done by the original guys.”

Though there are no announced plans to record new music, the pair have organized a 7-disc box set, The Bachman Cummings Collection, which gathers albums from the Guess Who, plus material from Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Cummings’ solo career. It arrived in 2021 via Sony Music Canada. Order the CD set here and the LP set here.

On Jan. 12, 2020, Cummings made a series of posts on his Facebook page. The first teased: “YIKES!!! This guy’s lookin’ awfully happy about somethin’… almost TOO happy, if there’s such a thing…” Moments later, he wrote, “Watch for these guys comin’ to your area in 2020…” The post was accompanied by a photo of him and Bachman performing.

Several more posts followed, included a photo of the two of them captioned, “THESE GUYS…,” a reference to the Guess Who’s 1969 hit, “These Eyes.”

On Feb. 4, 2020, Cummings wrote, “Currently mulling over what our set list is going to look like for the Bachman Cummings dates…tell ya this much…a lotta hit records that people have heard on the radio for years…should be a pretty solid couple of hours…”

Cummings initially fueled the rumor on Dec. 8, 2019, when he wrote on his Facebook page, “‘Rumour has it’ that this might be a sight many people will see in 2020…” The comment accompanied a photo of the classic rock pair celebrating onstage with their arms around each other.

On Dec. 17, Cummings wrote, “Looking MORE and MORE likely now that this will occur in 2020. I’m already mentally formulating a set list in my head, and it surely does look impressive. A two hour show composed of MANY familiar radio songs. Not a bad way to spend a couple of hours, I must say.”

As the new year began, Cummings continued to provide hope that the reunion would take place. On Jan. 4, he wrote: “Looks more and more every day like this will happen in 2020.”

The next day, he added, “Seems that ‘both parties’ want this, so now it’s just a matter of timing and logistics. No one lives forever, and methinks ‘it’s time.'”

The pair performed at a Toronto charity event on July 18, 2019, to support Canada’s Walk of Fame. But before that, it had been a decade – 2009 – since the two Canadian born musicians had last performed together.

On August 16, 2019, at Cummings’ concert at the CNE Bandshell in Toronto, his longtime bandmate surprised the audience when he showed up onstage to perform three songs.

“I found out that an old friend of mine would be in the neighborhood,” said Cummings to the audience towards the end of his set. “So I asked him would he like to come down and join in.”

And with that, the guitarist joined Cummings on stage, first for a fist pump, then an embrace. “What are we going to do,” teased Bachman. After a brief conference among the musicians, Bachman joked: “I’m trying to learn this song. Does it go like this?” And then came the unmistakable guitar riff that introduces the Guess Who’s 1970 classic rock smash, “American Woman.”

The audience roared its approval. “Seeing as how he’s up here,” said Cummings, “there’s a song he did that has become an anthem in arenas. The song is in the DNA of everyone in the free world.”

Bachman then led Cummings’ band on a electrifying version of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s 1974 hit, “Takin’ Care of Business,” singing lead with Cummings switching over to keys.

That wouldn’t be all. The pair then shared vocals on the Guess Who’s 1969 hit, “No Time.”

Watch them perform their U.S. breakthrough, “These Eyes,” in July 2022

Bachman Cummings 2022 Tour Dates (Tickets for future dates will be available here and here)

2022 Canadian Dates Jul 17 – Peterborough, ON – Peterborough Memorial Centre Jul 19 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage Jul 20 – London, ON – Budweiser Gardens Jul 22 – Kemptville, ON – Kemptville Live Music Festival Jul 23 – St. Catharines, ON – Meridian Centre Aug 05 – Grand Forks, BC – Canada Rock Fest Sep 03 – Vancouver, BC – PNE Amphitheatre

2022 Burton Cummings and Band Dates Aug 17 – Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Resort & Casino Aug 19 – Saskatoon, SK – Rock the River Aug 20 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Rock Fest Sep 23 – Sault Ste. Marie, ON – GFL Memorial Gardens

2021 Bachman Cummings U.S. Dates – Postponed Sep 01 – Fort Wayne, IN – Foellinger Theatre Sep 02 – Akron, OH – Goodyear Theater at East End Sep 04 – Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino Hotel Sep 05 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater Sep 07 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion Sep 08 – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center Sep 10 – Rosemont, IL – Rosemont Theater Sep 11 – Green Bay, WI – Resch Center Theater Sep 13 – Kansas City, MO – Kauffman Center for the Perf. Arts* Sep 15 – Omaha, NE – Orpheum Theatre Sep 16 – St. Charles, MO – The Family Arena Sep 18 – Deadwood, SD – Deadwood Jam Sep 19 – Colorado Springs, CO – Pikes Peak Center Sep 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Maverik Center Sep 22 – Boise, ID – Morrison Center for the Perf. Arts Sep 24 – Las Vegas, NV – The Smith Center Sep 25 – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre TBA – Tama, IA – Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel

2021 Canadian Dates – Postponed Jun 14 – Victoria, BC – Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Jun 17 – Medicine Hat, AB – Co-Op Place Jun 19 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place Jun 22 – Saskatoon, SK – SaskTel Centre Jun 23 – Regina, SK – Brandt Centre Jul 04 – Montreal, QC – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts Jul 08 – Moncton, NB – Avenir Centre Jul 09 – Summerside, PEI – Credit Union Place Jul 12 – Halifax, NS – Scotiabank Centre Jul 15 – St. John’s, NL – Mile One Centre

The pair aren’t able to use the Guess Who name. (Original member/drummer Garry Peterson, retains the rights to it.)

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For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’d like to share the story of my amazing sister, Lawton Cummings, who lives in Austin, Texas.

Lawton, or Lawty as we call her, is my best friend, and always the life of the party. She is an amazing mother, and wife. She is a brilliant attorney, and she is now battling breast cancer for the second time.

Both times she found the lumps herself, and she believes it made all the difference. “Self-exam is imperative,” she said in a Facetime interview. “It is definitely what saved my life.”

On Easter 2009, when she was just 37 years old, she was lying on her side and saw a lump under her arm. “(I) reached down and felt it, and knew that it was not normal,” she said.

It was breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and reconstruction. It was tough, but when it was all done, she was cancer-free for a long time.

Then this March, nine years later, she felt another lump. “I was doing a self-exam and found the tiniest little pea right, again, on the edge of my right breast, almost under my arm,” she said. It was breast cancer again, only this time it had spread to her lungs and a lymph node.

It was a scary time, but Lawty is a real success story. She had surgery to remove the pea-sized tumor, and is now taking an oral chemo and hormone therapy daily. “My tumors are shrinking. I feel good. My hair didn’t fall out this time!” she said with a laugh.

Life is good, and she’s glad she found the lumps when she did. We all are. Every day is a blessing, and Lawty’s story is a good reminder.

Dr. Stephanie Miller at Rose Medical Center in Denver says self-exams and screenings like mammograms are vital. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, 40 percent of diagnosed breast cancers are detected by women who feel a lump.

“The best time to have a breast cancer identified is when it is early, because that’s when we can do the best job for them. So, I tell women to know their bodies. Know if there’s changes, and then follow up on it,” Dr. Miller said.

Cancer treatment, she says, is also improving. “We can offer women the concept that we will be able to have treatments to keep up with their disease as it progresses,” Dr. Miller said.

For that, my family is grateful. Lawty is doing well. She took a new job, is traveling and living a fabulous life. We have years of memories to make, and it’s all thanks to a quick self-check.

Love you Lawty!!!

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In the world of performance engine building and racing, engine swaps have become commonplace – but every so often someone decides to do something crazy enough that it captures the attention of automotive fans everywhere. Some of the particularly odd, yet interesting, amalgamations happen when builders decide to swap a diesel engine into a more exotic sports car.

Last year, we saw Ashley Whitsey’s 5.9L Cummins Supra come to life, but this year, we’ve found something even more unique.

The guys at 1 Way Diesel Performance are known as diesel connoisseurs down in Eastern Texas. They offer several services to customers including parts manufacturing, engine repair and full custom builds. A few of those builds have been featured on Texas Metal’s Loud & Lifted, a Motortrend show where the team checks out up-and-coming diesel customization shops in Texas.

Ironically, the vehicles featured from 1 Way Diesel in a recent episode is anything but “lifted.” In fact, you could barely fit a playing card underneath the frame of it. The car in question is a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo, complete with a 5.9L common rail Cummins in the rear.

The process of putting a Cummins engine into a Lamborghini Gallardo is no small feat and requires a great deal of skill and expertise. However, the team at 1 Way Diesel Performance was up to the challenge and spent countless hours carefully installing and tuning the engine to fit the unique characteristics of the Lamborghini.

Even more impressive is the fact that the car was completely totaled when 1 Way Diesel acquired it. The jumble of mangled metal that once resembled a Gallardo was on its way to being scrapped, but after repairing the framework, installing new body panels, and giving it some general maintenance, the car was ready for a new engine – a Cummins diesel straight-six.

The three-month project car is a shop vehicle first and foremost and will be taken to the drag strip from time to time. That means it wasn’t simply given a standard diesel swap – the team at 1 Way Diesel upgraded the connecting rods, camshaft, main studs and head studs, and added a ported cylinder head with upgraded springs. Larger injectors and a unique twin-turbo setup help to produce the ~1,000 horsepower the engine is making, which is more than double the horsepower of the Gallardo’s stock 5.0L V10.

The primary issue was finding out how to fit the engine into the Gallardo’s rear engine bay in the first place. To shoehorn the Cummins engine into the bay that was originally only made for an engine five cylinders in length, the team had to cut about 1 foot into the original firewall and fabricate a new one.

The end result is a truly impressive car that defies expectations and pushes the limits of what you can do with an engine swap. Other than their lesser-known line of Lamborghini Trattori tractors, you’ll be hard pressed to find another Lamborghini that can roll some serious coal!

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industry insider | Oct 16, 2019 |

Six months ago, interior designer Lauren Hudson watched with apprehension as two beloved fabric lines, Classic Cloth and Rose Cumming Chintzes, disappeared in the throes of Dessin Fournir’s collapse. Somewhere along the way, waiting for new ownership to emerge gave way to the notion that perhaps she herself was the right person to shepherd the brands back into the marketplace. Though relatively new to the design industry, Hudson already has deep experience preserving legacy brands—knowledge she’s now leveraging to attempt a rescue operation for two Dessin Fournir fabric lines.

Hudson’s history of breathing new life into storied brands goes back about a decade. In 2009, she hired Jerry Jeanmard of Wells Design to decorate her own home—a project he suggested would be one of his last before closing the firm. (He had purchased it from his own longtime mentor, legendary Houston designer Herbert Wells, who got his start in the 1950s.) Instead, Hudson struck up an unlikely partnership with Jeanmard: She would purchase the firm, keep it open, and learn the business from him. It was a departure from Hudson’s previous career—as a high school history teacher and recruiter for accounting behemoth Arthur Andersen—but one she took to quickly.

In February 2017, Hudson opened her own showroom in Decorative Center Houston, stocked with many vendors who had ties to the firm dating back to Wells himself. Soon after, she took over the well-regarded Ellouise Abbott showroom—her neighbor in Houston, but also a major player in the Dallas Market Center. Today, the merged entity, the Wells Abbott showroom, carries major lines exclusively in both markets while also carrying on a local legacy.

By late last year, Hudson was in talks with Dessin Fournir to carry the line. “We were given the representation contracts at the end of 2018—just in time for them to go completely belly-up,” she says. She signed the contract with a sense that the company was in trouble—by then, lead times had reached a year or longer—but with hopes of securing a partnership with new ownership. The line never even arrived in the showroom.

As months passed, the conversations Hudson was having about her business with her husband began to change. “It went from hoping for a relationship with new ownership to, well, maybe it should be us,” she says. “It’s not like we set out with that thought in the beginning, but once you get something like that in your head, it’s hard to let go of it—especially if it’s a line you’re already in love with. You don’t want it to go to someone else.”

Jack Thompson Photography

When Hudson joined the firm, Jeanmard introduced her to Classic Cloth and Rose Cumming Chintzes, which became mainstays in her own work (and in her home, which she says is covered in both). “The brands have been the defining lines of my journey through interior design, and the thought of them disappearing or being absorbed into some large collection where a lot of what makes them special might have been lost, was terrible.”

Rose Cumming founded her design firm and an Upper East Side furniture and antiques shop in 1917 after following her actress sister to New York from her native Australia. A precursor to Mario Buatta’s signature look, she introduced a generation of staid New Yorkers to saturated hues and chinoiserie, and brought chintz to the home’s most informal spaces. Cumming also designed and printed her own fabrics, a business her sister continued after the decorator’s death in 1968; the line was sold to Dessin Fournir in the mid-2000s.

Though it boasts a less romantic founding story, Classic Cloth was Dessin Fournir’s in-house line of high-end basics. The wide array of elegant, complementary wovens become an essential designer resource—a medley of supple, textured textiles.

Hudson’s familiarity with both lines—and their strengths and weaknesses—now gives her a leg up in putting her own creative stamp on each. “They are both beautiful in general but need some editing,” she days. “Right now there are holes, especially on the Classic Cloth side. We’re focused on rounding it out to be a full set of foundational basics, made in the best mills in the world.”

That doesn’t necessarily mean dramatic changes are in store. “With Rose Cumming, I’m taking it back to its roots,” she says. “Those chintzes are special, and the archive we have taken possession of is beautiful. There are some fabrics in that archive I can’t wait to get my hands on. If they’re recolored or rescaled—there’s enough that’s not out there right now to keep us busy for several years.”

In short, she says, her mission is simple: “No cutting corners, no dumbing it down.”

In addition to purchasing the two brands and all of their intellectual property and inventory, Hudson is also leasing the aforementioned Kansas warehouse formerly owned by Dessin Fournir, which currently houses the inventory she purchased. Keeping the warehouse, she says, allows the two brands to be operational as quickly as possible. (She has already rehired three former warehouse employees and is in talks with others.)

One of the first major challenges she’ll face is reintroducing the brand to the marketplace, especially in places like Chicago and New York, where Dessin Fournir previously operated its own showrooms. “It’s an interesting situation, because these are very established brands, but it’s also kind of like starting over,” she says. “It’s not only new ownership, but in many cases also new representation.”

For now, East Coast orders will be fulfilled by Ainsworth-Noah in Atlanta, which was the first showroom to represent Cummings’s line after the designer’s own shop and has carried the brand for nearly 30 years. Hudson’s showrooms in Texas will pick up orders throughout the Midwest; starting in November, Michael S. Smith’s Los Angeles showroom, Jasper, will cover the West Coast.

“We never took the line down, we just flipped over the tags and told everyone it was on hold,” says Dennis Hunt, president of Ainsworth-Noah. “I was telling designers, ‘Don’t get rid of your libraries!’ In the back of my head, I always felt there would be a white knight—and now, eight months later, it has happened.”

The line’s revitalization comes as a relief, says Hunt—a dose of good news amid a wave of closures and acquisitions. “These brands keep disappearing or being bought up by large companies,” he says. “Our excitement is that we get to continue to present and push forward these legacy brands that are so deeply rooted in who we are. These lines are staples for high-end designers—especially if we don’t want to become a generic white-linen world.”

In January, Hudson will relaunch the brands in the Tissus d’Hélène showroom; then, she’ll focus on finding representation in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Another priority will be rebuilding bridges with the brands’ longtime mills, many of which were burned over the course of Dessin Fournir’s demise.

As both a designer and a multiline showroom owner, Hudson remains committed to the showroom distribution model—albeit powered by technology and services that add value for designers. Her understanding of the nuances of the challenges that both sides encounter has made her especially sensitive as she develops a path forward.

“I understand the limitations, but I happen to think the future is bright,” she says. “What I’m trying to do is address some of those challenges in order to support the designer and the showroom.”

For Hudson, that means a website that makes the lines easily accessible to designers, allowing them to check stock and pricing and request memo samples directly from the warehouse, which fills the orders within 24 hours. Designers who request quotes from the site will be funneled to the proper showroom. “That’s the differentiating factor,” says Hudson. “In my firm, if something is easy to order—if it’s properly stocked, easy to get samples, and the showroom I’m working with is informed—we’re ordering it. But if it’s hard, there are other places to go.”

She’s also committed to developing a resource library for top clients that will be beautifully packaged, easy to source from, and continually updated by outside sales reps—a service she greatly values in her own firm. “Even with our offices in the design center, with showrooms next door, there are lines we source in our office because we have what we need right there,” she says. “It’s all about ease of use—and confidence. There are lines we use over and over again because we have confidence in them.”

Though Hudson’s path to the design industry is an unusual one, she says her decade as a high school history teacher and another as a recruiter for Arthur Anderson prepared her for success in unique ways.

“My experience as a teacher [taught me] about being a good steward,” she says. “It’s my responsibility to be a good steward to Wells Design, which has such a wonderful heritage, and to Ellouise Abbott and the showroom she started. The concept of stewardship applies to [Rose Cumming and Classic Cloth] too: Having an appreciation of the archive, being true to the line’s heritage, and trying to leave it a little better than I found it.”

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An aerial photo of the Rainey Street District, with the trailhead area highlighted. Image: Bing Maps

Though downtown Austin condo and apartment projects tend to spring up everywhere around the urban core, the sheer volume of current and expected residential development in the Rainey Street District sets it apart in several ways — not all of them necessarily positive, but ideally those growing pains should make it easier to see what needs fixing.

One impact of the Rainey neighborhood’s growing population is that the area’s become an important entry point for hikers and bikers on our city’s beloved and aptly-named Hike-and-Bike Trail, particularly at the southern end where the trail runs near the intersection of Rainey and Cummings Streets. The Trail Foundation, working in partnership with Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department, announced this week that some improvements were in order for this section of trail and its surrounding parkland, in order to establish a full-fledged “Rainey Street Trailhead” that would increase the area’s recreational potential with new amenities.

We’re being vague because they’re being vague — the first community engagement event for the project takes place on Saturday, September 28, meaning we don’t have exact details regarding what might be on the table just yet. “The community will advise on what would make this area more functional and explore ideas on preserving the ecology of this space,” says the city’s very short press release on the upcoming meeting, but it still has us thinking.

The present state of the trailhead isn’t bad by any means, it’s actually one of the nicer parts of the district in terms of natural beauty — and it contains what’s gotta be one of the most striking outdoor restrooms ever designed. Seriously, as public toilet architecture connoisseurs we like it very much. The trail entrance here also leads users directly into the tranquil rear grounds of Austin’s Mexican-American Cultural Center, provided you’re heading westward:

It’s truly a pleasure to walk the grounds of the MACC on the Hike-and-Bike Trail. You should try it!

Still, it’s easy to imagine what we could do here to create a space people feel compelled to linger, rather than simply stroll through. There’s a lot of shaded open space directly off the trail in this area, as seen in the photos provided by the Trail Foundation — in fact, the second picture below almost feels like foreshadowing for what might become a plaza or recreational space of some kind. Is it cliche to suggest, like, giant chess or something? How about a pétanque court?

Whatever happens over here, there’s at least one good reason to start thinking about these improvements — a lot of new neighbors moving in directly across the street from the trailhead area at the upcoming 44 East condo tower project. Recent coverage of the building, the construction of which could get moving any time now, mentions its developers Intracorp will contribute funds to the trailhead improvement effort.

Let’s at least give them something interesting to pay for — so go to this month’s event and tell them what you’d like to see in downtown’s fastest-growing neighborhood.