Mark Farner, a founding member of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, continues to raise his sound within the newest single “Anymore” out now. Launched with a companion lyric video, the track sees Farner firing on all cylinders with this anthemic refrain. “Anymore” is the third track from his new album, “Nearer To My Residence” and showcases the rocker’s unmistakable Parker Fly guitar. The rebelliousness of the riffs go head-to-head with Farner’s commanding lyrics. Farner sings with ardour and resolve — with an outpouring undercurrent of affection — on this reflective barn burner.
Co-written by Mark Slaughter (SLAUGHTER) and produced by Slaughter and Farner, “Nearer To My Residence” is obtainable on vinyl and CD by means of Righteous Rock Data.
Having written greater than 90 % of the GRAND FUNK RAILROAD music catalog, Farner has all the time been referred to as the energetic driving drive on stage, the engine that pulled the unique GRAND FUNK RAILROAD to the highest of the charts. From his soulful voice and energy rock riffs, to fueling the FUNK along with his atomic stage presence. His story and his imprint on music begins with Flint and since 1969 from his humble beginnings and a blue-collar outlook, Farner has captained a world campaign for love, peace and freedom and have become a rock ‘n’ roll icon.
Greater than 60 years later, he instructions the stage with the identical depth performing epic hits that outlined a technology: “I am Your Captain (Nearer To Residence)”, “Unhealthy Time”, “Some Type Of Fantastic”, “Foot Stompin’ Music”, “Heartbreaker”, “Rock & Roll Soul”, “Locomotion”, “Imply Mistreater” and “We’re An American Band”. MARK FARNER’S AMERICAN BAND continues to tour, celebrating the fifty fifth anniversary of the ground-breaking hit “I am Your Captain (Nearer To Residence)” .
Farner‘s first years in music had been with the bands TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK and THE BOSSMEN. When GRAND FUNK RAILROAD fashioned in 1969, they named the group after the Grand Trunk & Western Railroad that runs by means of Flint. Like a Spartan, Farner was intent on bringing rock destined for arenas. What started as rehearsals at Flint’s Federation of Musicians Union Corridor led to a few of rock music’s watershed moments. On the 1969 Atlanta Worldwide Pop Competition, they shared the stage with rock luminaries corresponding to LED ZEPPELIN, Janis Joplin and CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL. The identical yr they fashioned — 1969 — the band additional defied expectations by releasing two albums (by way of Capitol Data) in a four-month interval. Farner wrote all however two songs from “On Time” and the platinum-selling “Grand Funk”. He mentioned they wished to reap the benefits of the meteoric rise that was constructing by way of the band’s reputation.
“It wasn’t a lot strain as a result of the songs had been coming quick,” Farner mentioned. “I had nothing however time for songs.”
By 1970, Farner‘s songs had been pivotal to the band’s success. The epic composition “I am Your Captain (Nearer to Residence)” grew to become an anthem for Vietnam Battle veterans and audiences alike. Farner would later carry out the enduring track on the Vietnam Memorial Wall, on the twenty fifth Anniversary of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Farner additionally obtained the Vietnam Veterans of American Presidents Award for Excellence within the Arts.
In July 1971, the trio bought out Shea Stadium in New York; 55,000 tickets had been bought in a document 72 hours — besting THE BEATLES‘ earlier document.
The Farner-penned composition “Unhealthy Time” was GRAND FUNK‘s final Prime 10 single, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Scorching 100 in June 1975. Though it by no means topped the charts, the track was probably the most performed tune on radio that yr because of demand.
Farner is a three-time Michigan Rock And Roll Legends Corridor Of Fame member — inducted as a solo member in 2015 and an inductee as a part of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD and TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK.
GRAND FUNK laid the groundwork for such bands as FOREIGNER, JOURNEY, VAN HALEN and BON JOVI with its signature exhausting driving sound, soulful vocals, muscular instrumentation and forceful pop melodies. The truth that GRAND FUNK‘s legacy nonetheless reigns over the basic rock panorama fifty years after its 1969 delivery in Flint, Michigan is a testomony to the group’s affect and endurance. Mega-hits “We’re An American Band”, “I am Your Captain/Nearer To Residence”, “Locomotion” and “Some Type Of Fantastic” nonetheless obtain steady airplay on basic rock radio. “We’re An American Band” has obtained notoriety in recent times being utilized in film soundtracks and in tv/radio promoting. The large hit was featured in a Normal Motors nationwide TV advert marketing campaign and in Disney‘s animated function movie “The Nation Bears”. “We’re An American Band” was featured within the Cuba Gooding Jr. movie “Radio”, and within the swash buckler “Sahara” starring Matthew McConaughey.
