ORANGE PARK – Multi-platinum-selling iconic group GRAND FUNK RAILROAD announced tour dates to their highly anticipated upcoming ‘The American Band Tour,’ in honor of the 50th anniversary of their 1973 “We’re An American Band” platinum-selling single and album.

One of those stops will be at the Thrasher-Horne Center on Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. For tickets, which start at $39, visit the box office or thcenter.org.

One of rock’s most definitive anthems, founding member Don Brewer (vocals and drums) was the soul writer and vocalist on “We’re An American Band,” which went all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard “Hot 100” chart on Sept. 29, 1973. “‘We’re An American Band’ came to me when we were flying to town on its “Phoenix Tour” in 1972,” said Brewer of writing the song.

“We were being sued by our former manager, Terry Knight, and he was trying to stop us from performing. The line, ‘We’re comin’ to your town, we’ll help you party it down,’ came to me first, and I wrote the song around that line, taking snippets of things going on during the tour at that time - like staying up all night with Freddy King playing poker, four young chiquitas in Omaha, sweet, sweet Connie in Little Rock, and, finally, the declaration, ‘We’re An American Band,’ because it sounds great and sings well. I feel lucky and blessed every time we play it live.’”