"Caravan" is the first single from Canadian rock band Rush's 19th studio album, Clockwork Angels. It was released to radio stations and saw digital release on June 1, 2010 (a full two years before the album's proper release), on CD via mail order later that month, and as a 7" vinyl record for Record Store Day 2011, with a limited printing of 3,000 units.Record Store Day press release Accessed April 19, 2011 The B-side is an additional studio track titled "BU2B", which stands for the lyric "brought up to believe". Both songs were recorded April 13, 2010, at Blackbird Studios in Nashville with producer Nick Raskulinecz with mixing and engineering done by Richard Chycki at the Sound Kitchen in Franklin, Tennessee.Rush Press Release MarketWire Accessed May 26, 2010 The songs were mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City.
Track listing Music by Lee/Lifeson and lyrics by Peart
Personnel Geddy Lee – bass guitar, keyboards, bass pedals, vocals Alex Lifeson – guitars, keyboards Neil Peart – drums, lyrics David Campbell – string arrangement and conducting
Chart performance
Chart Position Finnish Singles ChartFinland chart positions - acharts.us 19US Mainstream Rock38US Bubbling Under Hot 100 b/w "BU2B"19 Canadian Hot 100Canada chart positions - acharts.us 44UK Singles184
In other media The song was released as a downloadable track for Rock Band 3 in 2011. It was also featured in TSN's introductory footage to the CFL game between the Calgary Stampeders and Montreal Alouettes on July 20, 2013.
See also List of Rush songs
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