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
Share 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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