Grand Funk Railroad's BEST!!

Review Score: (10/10)
This was 1973 GFR just barley survived a huge brake up with there manager Terry Knight. Mark, Don and Mel got the name Grand Funk Railroad, Terry Knight got everything else. GFR in 72 Added a forth member in Craig Frost (now with Bob Segar's Silver Bullet band) to round out the sound and put out a self produced album called Phoenix, which had the hit Rock N Roll soul on it, but it was not as commercially successful as there pervious 7 albums. Even with that Hit song many GFR fans felt GFR was gong soft and they needed a much better album, yet they also needed radio friendly songs. Don Brewer, Grand Funk's GREAT Drummer, stepped forward with his song writing and singing and wrote and sung the great number one HIT Were An American Band; It was GFRs first number one hit and became there signature song; it went on to be a smash hit for GFR and one of the biggest rock songs of all time. The Album We're An American Band rock's from start to finish. Of course We're An American Band became a rock anthem (ask Garth Brooks, Kid Rock, Jackal, Bon Jovi, Joe Lynn Turner, Halloween and On and On-so many artists and bands have covered it over the years), Stop Looking Back a Brewer and Farner composition has a wonderful chorus which went "Shoot for the starts when my eyes can't see the sun light. Reach for the sun in the night, Stop lookin back at the times I was defeated, I pick myself up and move straight ahead and stop lookin back" an excellent song. The album also contains The Railroad and Creepin Two of Mark Farner's best written songs, these two songs really show how Mark's writing was maturing. Black Licorice and Walk Like A Man are Two rocker's by Don Brewer that really fill up this album with great rockers. Ain't got Nobody and Loneliest Rider both by Farner, The Former a mid tempo song and the later a song about the plight of Native Americans in the USA, both great songs. This version of We're An American Band is a 24 Bit remasterred version that sounds wonderful has new liner notes and restored artwork. It also contains four bonus tracks Hooray and The End two Brewer/Farner penned songs that just flat out rock, I can't believe either of these was left off the original album, they turn one of rocks and rolls best albums into an even better hard rocking album. Anotehr bonus track is a new mix of We're An American Band that is heavy in Guitar that sounds very cool and lastly an acoustic version of walk like a man with fantastic vocals by Don Brewer. All in all a Great album, GFRs Best by a long shot; We're An American Band is a classic and is must have CD for every Rock "N" Roll fan.

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