The Staple Singers, Freedom Highway - 47m 14s

Tracks & Durations

1. Will The Circle Be Unbroken	2:39
2. Move Along Train	2:26
3. Are You Sure	2:45
4. Wade In The Water	2:57
5. If I Could Hear My Mother Again	2:24
6. Glory, Glory, Halleluja	2:32
7. The Lord's Prayer	3:03
8. Jacob's Ladder	2:06
9. Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)	2:53
10. Praying Time	3:04
11. For What It's Worth	2:25
12. Hammer and Nails	2:26
13. Freedom Highway	2:55
14. What You Gonna Do?	2:38
15. Samson and Delilah	2:35
16. Nobody's Fault But Mine	1:48
17. Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw	2:50
18. This Train	2:37

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Review

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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Freedom Highway

Tracks: 1 (-17 tracks), Disk length: 2m 51s (-45m 37s)

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