Label: Buddha Records (US), 74465 99762 2
Style: Rock, Classic Rock
Country: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Time: 44:00
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 298 Mb
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The Land was their first album following the departure of Randy
Bachman, and the band brought in two new guitarists, Kurt Winter and
Greg Leskiw. The album was another international success for the band,
reaching number seven in Canada and number fourteen in the US, and
spawned three hit singles in the title track, "Hand Me Down World" and
"Hang On to Your Life".
"Hang On to Your Life" was written by
Cummings supposedly after a bad case of sunburn, but many people believe
it was written after a bad acid trip. It is an anti-drug song, and was
used on commercials to promote stopping the usage of heavy drugs. At the
end of the song, Psalm 22:13–15 is quoted. "Hand Me Down World" and
"Bus Rider" were from Winter's band Brother, but The Guess Who recorded
them before Brother had ever been into a studio. On the 8-track tape
edition of the album, the song was edited to make it a bit longer in
order to fill out the timing on the first channel (a few extra measures
appear before each verse).
When asked how the band knew the
Indigenous man on the album's cover, they replied, "central casting". In
a 2016 interview with Relix, Burton Cummings was asked about the cover
and stated:
Well, don’t forget that the biggest single album of The
Guess Who’s career was Share The Land, which was the album that had the
Chief of the American Cherokees on the cover. Everybody still thinks I’m
native. I just thought that it was a great idea to do that, to put him
on the cover. This guy was 81 years old, and we all scampered up a hill
for the photo shoot, and he beat us to the top. This guy was crazy;
snakes had bitten him something like a hundred times. This guy could
bite a snake and kill it, he was 81 and had not a wrinkle on his face.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_the_Land)
01. Bus Rider (03:00)
02. Do You Miss Me Darlin'? (03:55)
03. Hand Me Down World (03:27)
04. Moan for You Joe (02:42)
05. Share the Land (03:55)
06. Hang on to Your Life (04:10)
07. Coming Down Off the Money Bag / Song of the Dog (03:57)
08. Three More Days (08:59)
09. Palmyra (bonus track) (05:44)
10. The Answer (bonus track) (04:06)
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