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DISCID=bb0f780e
DTITLE=The Rascals / Freedom Suite
DYEAR=1969
DGENRE=
TTITLE0=America The Beautiful
TTITLE1=Me And My Friends
TTITLE2=Any Dance'll Do
TTITLE3=Look Around
TTITLE4=Ray Of Hope
TTITLE5=Island Of Love
TTITLE6=Of Course
TTITLE7=Love Was So Easy To Give
TTITLE8=People Got To Be Free
TTITLE9=Baby I'm Blue
TTITLE10=Heaven
TTITLE11=Adrian's Birthday
TTITLE12=Boom
TTITLE13=Cute
EXTD=Freedom Suite\n2007 Colllectors' Choice Music / Rhino Entertainme
EXTD=nt Company\n\nOriginally Released March 17, 1969\nRhino Handmade 
EXTD=Compilation Released October 17, 2001\nCollectors' Choice CD Edit
EXTD=ion Released August 28, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW:  Adventure has
EXTD= to count for something. When the Rascals dropped the word "Young
EXTD=" from the front of their name, it offered listeners and fans the
EXTD= signal was that everything would be different from then on. Whil
EXTD=e the band could -- and would still -- write infectious, sophisti
EXTD=cated blue-eyed soul numbers, they'd heard Blonde on Blonde, Pet 
EXTD=Sounds, and Sgt. Pepper's. They were also keenly aware of the tim
EXTD=e they lived in. Once Upon a Dream, issued in February of 1968, w
EXTD=as their first reach into previously uncharted territory, being c
EXTD=onstructed as an album instead of as a collection of singles. In 
EXTD=the 21st century, it stands as one of rock's great overlooked cla
EXTD=ssics with its ambitious production, multi-part expanded songwrit
EXTD=ing exercises, and some of the most ambitious vocalizing the band
EXTD= had yet attempted. But if that outing had been ambitious and eve
EXTD=n visionary, Freedom Suite, released in 1969 as the group's fifth
EXTD= album, was off the map. The band dug in and wrote a single LP's 
EXTD=worth of solid tunes including a quartet of fine singles. First, 
EXTD=there is "People Got to Be Free," which spent five weeks at Numbe
EXTD=r One on the pop (and hit number 14 on the R&B chart as well). Th
EXTD=en there's easy summer soul and gospel groove on "A Ray of Hope,"
EXTD= which may have only gotten to number 39, but it's among the most
EXTD= enduring cuts in the Rascals legacy. The track "Heaven," which c
EXTD=losed the first disc of Freedom Suite, was also wrapped tightly i
EXTD=n urban gospel.\n\n"People Got to Be Free" is not typical of the 
EXTD=Rascals massive offerings, but neither is it atypical of the firs
EXTD=t LP in the collection, which contains 11 more or less convention
EXTD=ally written (by Rascals standards) songs. While the four previou
EXTD=sly mentioned cuts stood out from the rest, there wasn't any fill
EXTD=er on that first platter, either. Arif Mardin co-produced with th
EXTD=e band and arranged and conducted strings and large horn sections
EXTD=. Some of the soloists included King Curtis on "Of Course," and D
EXTD=avid "Fathead" Newman on "Adrian's Birthday." Tom Down engineered
EXTD= a couple of cuts, but Adrian Barber did the rest of the session.
EXTD= Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere wrote all but three songs on t
EXTD=he first disc, and were as tight a team as ever. Gene Cornish wro
EXTD=te a pair on the first platter including the killer piano soul-ja
EXTD=zz cum rock number "Me and My Friends." But it's disc two that fl
EXTD=ips out everyone at first, wondering if this is indeed the Rascal
EXTD=s after all. There's the jazzed up (think Ramsey Lewis Trio groov
EXTD=e) "Adrian's Birthday," which was downright funky with popping ba
EXTD=ss by Chuck Rainey, fuzzed out stereo-effects guitar from Cornish
EXTD=, and a loose as a goose feeling more like a basement jam than a 
EXTD=Rascals cut, especially with the gutbucket tenor break from Newma
EXTD=n.\n\nBut it is a portent of things to come with the two nearly s
EXTD=ide-long cuts that follow. First, there's "Boom," which clocks in
EXTD= at nearly 14 minutes. It's a Dino Danelli drum solo, all of it. 
EXTD=True, Danelli, who'd played with New Orleans jazz legend Henry "R
EXTD=ed" Tyler and Lionel Hampton's band could play the hell out of th
EXTD=e drums, but 14 minutes on a rock & roll album? Then there's "Cut
EXTD=e," running over 15 minutes, which is a jam, period. Beginning wi
EXTD=th Cavaliere's Hammond B-3 and Danelli's popping drum kit, Cornis
EXTD=h digs deep into his soul-jazz hit. This sounds more like a Prest
EXTD=ige date by Jack McDuff up until a third of the way through, with
EXTD= one of the three session bassists (Rainey or Gerry Jemmott or Ri
EXTD=chard Davis; the player isn't named), pulling out he stops and dr
EXTD=iving the trio. At about five minutes in it begins to slip into t
EXTD=ripped out, improvisational territory. For most acts this would b
EXTD=e the death knell, but not for these cats. They let it wander for
EXTD= a minute or so and bring the groove back and then let it wander 
EXTD=and come back, but Danelli takes too long a drum break given you'
EXTD=d just had nearly 14 minutes of one a track earlier. It's excessi
EXTD=ve, but it rocks too. The jam works as such for most of its lengt
EXTD=h because the grooves are so dirty and heavy, and the cracking rh
EXTD=ythms with killer breakbeats are just what the doctor ordered aft
EXTD=er an album of pop tunes. But its excesses do overreach, and ther
EXTD=efore, that second disc in the set becomes all but superfluous. F
EXTD=reedom Suite reached number 127 on the chart, because of its reac
EXTD=h, and would be the second to last Rascals album to produce any s
EXTD=ingles in the Top 40. The CD version is actually easier to handle
EXTD= with the skip factor, and after "Adrian's Birthday," can be pull
EXTD=ed. Still, one needs to hear "Cute" at least once.  -- Thom Jurek
EXTD=\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nN/A\n\nHalf.com Details \nProdu
EXTD=cer: Arif Mardin, The Rascals \n\nAlbum Notes\nThe Rascals: Gene 
EXTD=Cornish (guitar); Felix Cavaliere (piano, organ); Dino Danelli (d
EXTD=rums); Eddie Brigati (conga drum, tambourine).\n\nAdditional pers
EXTD=onnel: David Newman , King Curtis (saxophone); Chuck Rainey, Gerr
EXTD=y Jemmott, Richard Davis (bass instrument); David Brigati (backgr
EXTD=ound vocals).\n\nLiner Note Author: Richie Unterberger.\nRecordin
EXTD=g information: 1969.
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