About This Album
Bread, an American soft rock band active primarily between 1968 and 1973, and again from 1976 to 1978, and finally from 1996 to 1997, released *Guitar Man* as an album in the Philippines. This rock & roll recording arrived ten months after *Baby I'm-a Want You*, which was the band's most successful album, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. *Guitar Man* itself reached No. 18 on the Billboard 200. The band's original members were David Gates, who contributed vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, and percussion; Jimmy Griffin, on vocals, guitar, keyboards, and percussion; and Robb Royer, playing bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, and backing vocals. Mike Botts joined as the permanent drummer in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica. Bread had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977. Their debut album, *Bread*, released in September 1969, peaked at No.
