The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway
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Artist: The Staple SingersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Move Along Train
- Are You Sure
- Wade In The Water
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
- Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
- The Lord's Prayer
- Jacob's Ladder
- Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)
- Praying Time
- For What It's Worth
- Hammer And Nails
- Freedom Highway
- What You Gonna Do?
- Samson And Delilah
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw
- This Train
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Free Music Review: Unique Gospel
Hit: 5 Stars
The Staple Singers had one of the more original sounds in gospel. Not the spiritual doo-wop of the quartets, and not the organ and vocal gymnastics of the choirs. Instead, the Staples were a family with great vocal styles and clear, "bright" guitar. It's the gospel version of Mississippi Delta country-blues - think of a sanctified John Lee Hooker on tour with his daughters. "Freedom Highway" is an excellent recording, and one of the best examples of the Staples' early sound.
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Recorded in the late 1960s, the strong gospel soul hymns and idealistic moral gospel folksongs on Freedom Highway represent the Staple Singers' artistic apex. Pops Staples's reverb-saturated guitar hangs alone in the air while Mavis and the other family members' voices encircle it with warm sounds and defiant words. All this music is 100 percent amazing--from Pops's poignant delivery of "Be Careful Of The Stones That You Throw" to the group's terrific, invigorating civil rights anthem "Freedom Highway" and a cover of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" that adds new dimensions of meaning to the hippie hit. Too poppy to be considered mainstream gospel but not as watered- down as the group became in their mid-1970s pop phase, the Staple Singers' late-'60s music easily ranks alongside the era's hit makers, far outstripping their talent with little flash and pure, lovely sounding conviction. --Mike McGonigalChristian & Gospel Music CDs
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