The Staple Singers - Freedom Highway Complete: Recorded Live At Chicago's New Nazareth Church

Recorded live at Chicago's New Nazareth Church

Includes 30+ minutes of the original church service

Seven previously unreleased tracks

Liner notes by author and documentarian Robert Gordon

Freedom Highway Complete is a newly remixed, remastered and expanded edition of the live concert masterpiece recorded by the Staple Singers in April 1965 in support and celebration of that year's historic civil rights marches from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama.

Featuring previously unreleased performances, the spiritually uplifting service, "Pops" Staples' Intro and Outro and more, Freedom Highway Complete puts the listener right in the church, with the Staples, the choir, the band, and the congregation for a once-in-a-lifetime event.

First released on Epic Records as an LP in 1965, the original Freedom Highway album, constrained by the time limits of 12" vinyl, edited the New Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church concert and service down to key performance tracks. The new Legacy edition marks the first-ever release of the full concert and service.

 

Side 1

1. Intro by Pops Staples (previously unreleased)

2. When the Saints Go Marching In

3. The Funeral

4. Build on That Shore

5. We Shall Overcome

6. Freedom Highway

Side 2

7. What You Gonna Do?

8. Precious Lord, Take My Hand

9. When I’m Gone

10. Help Me Jesus

Side 3

11. Rev. Hopkins/Offering

12. Jesus Is All

13. Samson and Delilah

14. View the Holy City

Side 4

15. Tell Heaven

16. He’s All Right

17. Pop Outro

18. Benediction

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