‘Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine’ delivers on revisiting a band that sold millions of albums, played for millions of fans, and never put themselves above their audience.
Canadian trio Triumph's second album was first released in Canada in 1977. But when the band signed a deal with RCA Records and the album was released in America the following year, it also included tracks from their self-titled debut, which alas served to confuse fans somewhat over the years. On the original, Triumph’s bombastic cover of Joe Walsh’s Rocky Mountain Way gave the band their first big hit, while the emphatic title track remained one of their best-loved songs, and The City: War March / El Duende Agonizante / Minstrel's Lament proved they could almost out-Rush Rush when it came to spectacular, multi-movement prog rock."We were signed to different labels in different countries," bass player and keyboardist Mike Levine told Classic Rock, "and it was so hard to get anyone to commit to putting up the money to bring us over to Britain. We should have come over in ’78