Artist: GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
Album: E PLURIBUS FUNK REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1971/ 2002
Media type: CD

E Pluribus Funk is Grand Funk Railroad's fifth studio album, and was released in November 1971 by Capitol Records. This is the final Grand Funk Railroad album produced by Terry Knight. The title is a play on the former motto of the US government, E Pluribus Unum.

Grand Funk's fifth album overall, 1971's E PLURIBUS FUNK, remains its most politically charged release. The trio also incorporated what were previously uncharted territories for a hard rock band on the song "Loneliness," which uses an orchestra ... Full Descriptionto great effect. Both "People Let's Stop the War" (concerning the Vietnam war) and "Save the Land," mixed politics and rock, proving that the band could shed its party hearty image and get serious when it needed to.

'Footstompin' Music' leads off & this album-their second Top Ten release of 1971-never lets up. 24-bit digitally remastered reissue with four previously unreleased live bonus tracks, 'I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home', 'Hooked On Love', 'Get It Together' (recorded in Dayton, OH 4/27/71) & 'Mark Say's Alright' (recorded in Detroit, MI 4/29/71).

All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Recorded at Cleveland Recording Company Studios, Cleveland, Ohio. Originally released on Capitol (853). Includes liner notes by Steve Roeser.

All songs written by Mark Farner.

TRACKLIST:

1. Footstompin' Music
2. People, Let's Stop the War
3. Upsetter
4. I Come Tumblin'
5. Save the Land
6. No Lies
7. Loneliness - (live)

8. Live Medley: I'm Your Captain / Closer To Home - (previously unreleased)
9. Hooked on Love - (previously unreleased)
10. Get It Together - (previously unreleased)
11. Mark Say's Alright - (previously unreleased, live)

LINE-UP:

Mark Farner - vocals, guitar, harmonica, organ
Don Brewer - vocals, drums, percussion
Mel Schacher - bass