Brother Where You Bound
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| Studio album by Supertramp | ||||
| Released | 14 May 1985 | |||
| Recorded | 1984–1985 Ocean Way, Hollywood, CA and The Backyard Studio, Encino, CA |
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| Genre | Progressive rock, pop rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 42:44 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | David Kershenbaum, Supertramp | |||
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Brother Where You Bound is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). It was their first album after original member Roger Hodgson left the band, leaving Rick Davies to handle the songwriting and singing on his own. The album features the group's Top 30 hit "Cannonball".
Brother Where You Bound reached number 20 on the UK Albums Chart and number 21 on The Billboard 200 in 1985, and went Gold according to the band's then label A&M Records in 1985, although the R.I.A.A. hasn't certified it yet.
A remastered CD version of the album was released on 30 July 2002 on A&M Records.
The track "Better Days" features an extended fade-out with voice-overs by the four key players in the 1984 Presidential Campaign: quotes spoken by Geraldine Ferraro and Walter Mondale sounding from the left audio channel and those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan on the right, mixed with John Helliwell's extended saxophone solo.
The album's sixteen-and-a-half-minute title track featured Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham on rhythm guitar and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on the guitar solos. Also, the track had readings from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. A demo for the song was recorded prior to Roger Hodgson's departure from the band, for potential inclusion on …Famous Last Words…, but the band ultimately felt it was too densely progressive rock to be appropriate, and decided against recording it for the album. At the time of the demo, the song was only ten minutes long.
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