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Free: Free

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Label: Island Records
Released: 1969.10.01
Time:
35:56
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chris Blackwell
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.freetheband.co.uk
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] I'll Be Creepin' (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 3:27
[2] Songs of Yesterday (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 3:33
[3] Lying in the Sunshine (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 3:51
[4] Trouble on Double Time (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers/S.Kirke/P.Kossoff) – 3:23
[5] Mouthful of Grass (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 3:36
[6] Woman (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 3:50
[7] Free Me (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 5:24
[8] Broad Daylight (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 3:15
[9] Mourning Sad Morning (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 5:04

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Paul Rodgers - Vocals
Paul Kossoff - Lead Guitar
Andy Fraser - Bass Guitar
Simon Kirke - Drums

Chris Blackwell - Producer
Ron Raffaelli - Design
Visual Thing Inc. - Design

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Free's second album was recorded with the band itself in considerable turmoil as principle songwriters Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser demanded strict discipline from their bandmates, and guitarist Paul Kossoff, in particular, equally demanded the spontaneity and freedom that had characterized the group's debut. It was an awkward period that saw both Kossoff and drummer Simon Kirke come close to quitting, and only the intervention of label chief Chris Blackwell seems to have prevented it. Few of these tensions are evident on the finished album - tribute, again, to Blackwell's powers of diplomacy. He replaced original producer Guy Stevens early into the sessions and, having reminded both warring parties where the band's strengths lie, proceeded to coax out an album that stands alongside its predecessor as a benchmark of British blues at the turn of the 1960s.

Dave Thompson - AllMusic.com



Free is the second album by English rock group Free, recorded and released in 1969. The band had spent time touring after their debut album Tons of Sobs the previous year, and there is a marked difference in the musicianship of the band as well as Paul Rodgers's voice. Whereas Tons of Sobs had been produced by Guy Stevens, Free was produced by the head of Island Records, Chris Blackwell.

This album saw the burgeoning of the songwriting partnership between Paul Rodgers and bassist Andy Fraser, which had been glimpsed on Tons of Sobs with songs such as "I'm a Mover"; here, eight out of the nine tracks bear a Fraser/Rodgers credit. Possibly as a result of the sixteen year-old Fraser's influence as a songwriter the bass guitar is far more prominent here than on the previous album. The instrument is used as a rhythm guitar, driving the songs, while Kossoff's lead guitar develops from it.

While Fraser and Rodgers made a strong writing partnership, tensions in the band increased. Kossoff, whose natural spontaneity had been given free rein up to then, particularly resented being taught very specific rhythm guitar parts by Fraser. However, Blackwell managed to keep the band in line to record the album.

However, the album performed fairly poorly on release, only reaching No. 22 in the UK charts and failing completely in the US. The single releases, "Broad Daylight" and "I'll Be Creepin'", also failed. Two songs from the album, "I'll Be Creepin'" and "Woman", were later covered by the American rock band Three Dog Night.
Cover

The album is notable for having extremely innovative and impressive artwork from Ron Rafaelli of The Visual Thing Inc. It is featured in the book 100 Best Album Covers alongside better-known examples such as Peter Blake's cover for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Robert Crumb's artwork for Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills. The book was part compiled by Storm Thorgerson who had designed many famous album covers such as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Rafaelli made the cover by photographing his model with strobe lights to make a silhouette of her against a background, on which he could then overlay the design. Hence, the album has a design of a woman made of stars leaping across the sky. The band's name is printed in extremely small letters at the top of the cover; with CDs being much smaller than LPs, this is almost unreadable.

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