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The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway

Primary Artist
The Staple Singers
Album Title
Freedom Highway
Release Date
1965 
Time
47:32 
Review by James Christopher Monger
Originally released on Epic in 1965 as a live in-church session, Legacy's 1991 reissue of Freedom Highway includes two of the original LP tracks supplemented by some truly spirited late-'60s Epic recordings. Despite the glaring omissions, Freedom Highway never feels like a hastily thrown-together compilation. Instead, it follows an arc that deftly mirrors the religious, political, and social fervor of the '60s as filtered through the warm vibrato of Pops Staples' amplifier and the golden throats of his brood. Read More
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