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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 ...
Grand Funk Railroad (often shortened to Grand Funk) is an American rock band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1969 by Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica), Don Brewer (drums, vocals) and Mel Schacher (bass).
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.
Farner was the guitarist and lead singer for Grand Funk Railroad as well as the songwriter for most of their material. His best-known composition is the 1970 epic "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)". [4] He also wrote the 1975 hit "Bad Time", the last of the band's four singles to make the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. [5]
Poison (who also recorded for Capitol) covered it and released it as a single with a music video for their The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (2006) compilation which peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200. [12] The song has also been covered by Rob Zombie, Garth Brooks, Phish, Kid Rock, Village People, Rascal Flatts, and others. [13]
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]
"I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home" - 5:48: Recorded at Shea Stadium, Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York on July 9, 1971. "Hooked on Love" - 2:45: Recorded at Shea Stadium, Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York on July 9, 1971.
Capitol Collector Series is a compilation album from Grand Funk Railroad released in 1991. It was the first compilation covering the bulk of the band's career on Capitol Records.