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"I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is a 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their 1970 album Closer to Home. Ten minutes in duration, it is the band's longest studio recording. One of the group's best-known songs, it is composed as two distinct but closely related ...
Closer to Home is the third studio album by American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.The album was released on June 15, 1970, by Capitol Records.Recorded at Cleveland Recording Company, the album was produced by Terry Knight.
All songs written and composed by Mark Farner except where noted. "Time Machine" – 3:45 "Heartbreaker" – 6:35 "Inside Looking Out" (Eric Burdon/Chas Chandler) – 9:33 "Closer to Home/I'm Your Captain" – 10:10
Grand Funk Railroad was formed as a trio in 1969 by Mark Farner and Don Brewer from Terry Knight and the Pack and Mel Schacher from Question Mark & the Mysterians. [5] Terry Knight, after being approached by Brewer, soon became the band's manager and also named the band originally "Grand Trunk Railroad" as a play on words for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a well-known rail line in Michigan ...
All songs written and composed by Mark Farner except where noted. "We're an American Band" – 3:26 "Time Machine" – 3:45 "Walk Like a Man" (Brewer/Farner) – 4:05 "Some Kind of Wonderful" (John Ellison) – 3:23
Upon the album's release, We're an American Band became the band's best-received album by critics, so far.Robert Christgau gave the album a B−, his highest rating for a Grand Funk Railroad album at the time (although Shinin' On (1974) and Grand Funk Hits (1976) would receive a B and B+, respectively). [4]
Thirty Years of Funk: 1969–1999 (also known as The Anthology) is a 1999 box set by Grand Funk Railroad, containing three new songs and several previously unreleased songs. Track listing [ edit ]
E Pluribus Funk is the fifth studio album by American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.The album was released on November 15, 1971, by Capitol Records.Like previous Grand Funk Railroad albums, it was recorded at Cleveland Recording Company and is the final album produced by Terry Knight.