Grand Funk Railroad-Grand Funk (1969)

“Grand Funk” is the second album from the visceral and powerful Grand Funk Railroad, released six months after their debut, “On Time”. This second release contains an anthology of energetic hard rock tracks featuring an exuberant and confident Mark Farner on guitar, as well as his excellent songwriting skills. It also showcases the solid and vigorous rhythm section of the powerful drummer Don Brewer and the crushing bass sound of Mel Schacher, which perfectly complement Farner's powerful guitar and vocals. Tracks like the furious “Got This Thing On The Movie”, a hard rock song with psychedelic undertones, the psychedelic heavy metal “Paranoid”, the powerful instrumental “In Need”, the acid blues “Winter And My Soul”, the addictive “Looking Out” or the rhythmic and heavy “High Falootin’ Woman”, make up an essential album, which would soon be hailed as a classic of hard rock, and which, with this or their subsequent works, would place them on par with their contemporaries Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience or Black Sabbath.