There are certain inescapable truisms to life in Canada: the winters are cold, the raccoons will get into your rubbish and, at any given time of day, there’ll be an April Wine classic blasting out of the pick-up truck that’s driving past you. Formed in 1969 in Nova Scotia (before relocating to Montreal a year later), April Wine spent the ‘70s and early ‘80s as Canada’s preeminent hard-rock emissaries, occupying the space between The Guess Who’s good-time romps and Rush’s pyrotechnic riffs in the canon of hoser heavyweights. While the band’s earliest successes came from amped-up covers of Hot Chocolate jams (“You Could Have Been a Lady”) and Elton John obscurities (“Bad Side of the Moon”), singer/guitarist Myles Goodwyn eventually came into his own as a hitmaker who could fuse pop punch with metallic crunch. To this day, hearing eternal rave-ups like "Oowatanite”, “Roller” and “I Like to Rock” triggers that spine-tingling sensation of being at an arena show when the lights first dim and the crowd starts to roar.