Freedom Highway

The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway

Freedom Highway
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Artist: The Staple Singers
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
  2. Move Along Train
  3. Are You Sure
  4. Wade In The Water
  5. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
  6. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
  7. The Lord's Prayer
  8. Jacob's Ladder
  9. Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)
  10. Praying Time
  11. For What It's Worth
  12. Hammer And Nails
  13. Freedom Highway
  14. What You Gonna Do?
  15. Samson And Delilah
  16. Nobody's Fault But Mine
  17. Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw
  18. 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 McGonigal

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