Denise McCann: Meet Randy Bachman’s Second Wife

Denise McCann (born December 16, 1948, in Clinton, Iowa) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter.

McCann’s family moved to Castro Valley, California during her teen years. After graduating from high school in 1967, she moved to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury region.

Meet Randy Bachman’s Second Wife

Randy married Denise McCann (from 1982 to 2011), and they had one child. They resided on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Bachman and McCann separated in 2011.

McCann became part of the hippie movement when she worked at the Magic Mountain Festival on Mount Tamalpais and then at the Monterey Pop Festival, where she befriended a nervous Jimi Hendrix just before his seminal performance. She appears in the D.A. Pennebaker documentary “Monterey Pop!”

McCann went on to become a folk singer and songwriter, appearing many times at famed San Francisco folk clubs such as The Holy City Zoo, The Drinking Gourd, and The Coffee Gallery, where she would play her distinctive Gibson J-50 guitar and sing her original songs