We spoke with Grand Funk Railroad original member, drummer and singer Don Brewer about the band's 50th anniversary 'American Band Tour.' Here's what he said about the song's origin and more.

From Grand Funk Railroad to Theory of a Deadman, here are all the free concerts at the 2025 Kentucky State Fair.

Grand Funk Railroad, with hits such as "We're an American Band," "Some Kind of Wonderful," and "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)," filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids alleging ...

FLINT, MI - The iconic Grand Trunk Western Railroad bridge over Fenton Road was vandalized with graffiti earlier this week. The railroad has read ‘Grand Funk’ for more than four decades in ...

In 1998, he was employed by the Capitol-EMI catalog and marketing division, and his first pet project became Grand Funk. For Capitol’s GFR remasters, Tedds was keen to include unreleased ...

Returning to the full Grand Funk Railroad name, the band released a couple of contractual-fulfillment discs in the live "Caught in the Act" and 1976's "Born to Die," which should have been a clear ...

Grand Funk Railroad began 1972 as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most successful bands. But by March, the popular power trio found itself stuck in a legal quagmire. Guitarist and singer Mark Farner ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Grand Funk Railroad is unquestionably an American band with a lengthy history of music and iconic songs that have kept rock fans of all ages' fists pumping and singing along to ...

As Capitol Records went into promotional overdrive, Closer to Home quickly became Grand Funk's third album to strike gold (and, later, platinum), soaring to No. 6 on the U.S. chart.