On the Road to Freedom [Import]

1. On the Road to Freedom

2. World Is Changing (I Got a Woman Back in Georgia)

3. So Sad (No Love of His Own)

4. Fall Angel

5. Funny

6. We Will Shine

7. Carry My Load

8. Lay Me Back

9. Let 'Em Say What They Will

10. I Can't Take It

11. Riffin

12. Rockin' Til the Sun Goes Down

13. So Sad (No Love of His Own) [Single Version][*]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
German reissue of 1973 album, scheduled to include one bonus track TBA. Repertoire.

On the Road to Freedom,Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre,Repertoire,Blues-Rock,British Blues,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

On the Road to Freedom [Import]

Average customer rating:

A great forgotten rock album
"We're makin' a smokin' album up the road..."
Fallen Angel, can you hear me?
100 years after
Music I had 20 years ago

On the Road to Freedom
Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre
Manufacturer: Repertoire
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000056P9X
Release Date: 2003-04-07

Tracks:

On the Road to Freedom
World Is Changing (I Got a Woman Back in Georgia)
So Sad (No Love of His Own)
Fall Angel
Funny
We Will Shine
Carry My Load
Lay Me Back
Let 'Em Say What They Will
I Can't Take It
Riffin
Rockin' Til the Sun Goes Down
So Sad (No Love of His Own) [Single Version][*]

Album Description

German reissue of 1973 album, scheduled to include one bonus track TBA. Repertoire.

Album Details

The Legendary Rock Guitarist is Paired with the American Gospel Singer on this all Star 1973 Set that features George Harrison, Stevie Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Ronnie Wood.

Customer Reviews:

A great forgotten rock album.......2007-07-16

I have loved this album for years, my father has it. I didn't think I would ever find it on CD, but here it is! It's rather expensive, but worth the money as you will not find this in record stores. This album has lots of famous rockers playing with the two lead guys - George Harrison, Ron Wood, Mick Fleetwood, Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and others. If you are a fan of classic rock, particularly "deep album rock" - songs that were not top 40, this is a must have item!

It's interesting because the songs reflect what was going on in 1973, but they could have been written today.

"We're makin' a smokin' album up the road...".......2007-06-08

Back in the mid-1980's, an interview appeared on NPR with Mylon LeFevre, (hough the interviewer was apparently from a Contemporary Christian Music media), where Mylon outlined some of his history in rock and gospel.

In the midst of it was a charming story he told, that goes like this. "Alvin (Lee) and I were working on this record, 'On the Road to Freedom', and took a break, and made our way to pub nearby. We weren't there long, when, of all things, in walks George Harrison. I told Alvin to introduce me, and he says, 'No - he's me neighbor and all, and I'll meet him someday, but..' 'Course, you know how the English are, all formal and all-that, so I just hopped up off my barstool, leaving Alvin behind, walked over, stuck out my hand, and said to George, 'Hi, I'm Mylon LeFevre, and I'm here with Alvin Lee, and we're makin' a smokin' album up the road; you wanna come by, hang out, play some, and do some blow...?' George grinned at me and said, 'Yeah, sure; great, man! No one ever asks me to play, 'cause of the Beatle thing..' So, he came over, and it was around the time he was writing stuff for Dark Horse, and I just loved his song 'So Sad', so we recorded it on '...Freedom'."

I did my best after that to scour used record stores for a copy of the album, all to no avail. Finally got a hold of a copy some 5 years later, and found it to be as extrordinary as everyone had been saying all these years.

Tasty, tasty, tasty....and as representative of the same devil-may-care attitude that brought Mylon off his barstool to greet George Harrison. What a great record!

Fallen Angel, can you hear me?.......2007-04-02

I got this album in late 72, when a friend of mine, who worked for
Columbia Records in New Jersey stole a couple of copies, and gave me
one. This when I was in my rip-off the rip-off phase. Since then
I've bought both the cassette, and the CD. Not to appease the Karma Gods,
but because this CD is that good, from the deceptively simple first prime
cut, "On the Road to Freedom", through the suffle boogie of "The world is
Changing", and the slide guitair slide of "So Sad", to the opening
dominant chord opening of "Fallen Angel", and the folksey "Funny", and
then going into Mylon LeFevere gospel roots of "We Will Shine", and
"Carry My Load", then the Alvin Lee rockers of "Let them Say What they
will", "I can't take it", and "Riffin", and the just pure guitair
forte of "Rockin till the sun goes down", the combination of Alvin Lee
and his fabulous talent, and that unmistakable voice of Mylon LeFevre
combined to make one album for the ages, I would strongly suggest that
you find a copy of this album, tape, or CD and listen to it, if not
outright purchase it.

100 years after.......2007-03-16

Better than any 10 Years After CD. Mylon has always been one of my faves as well. The quality of this CD was much better than my album.

Music I had 20 years ago.......2007-01-30

I had this on album 20 years ago. I have been looking for it on CD for may years also. Was glad to finally find it.

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Authenric Music with traditional instruments.
Living history

Music of the Civil War
Americus Brass Band , B. Holmes , W.L. Hobbs , Hosea Ripley , Walter Kittridge , D.L. Downing , George Frederick Root , Gioachino Rossini , Anonymous , James P. Carrell , W.K. Batchelder , C.V. Wallace , Henry Russell , Patrick S. Gilmore , Stephen Foster , Daniel Decatur Emmett , and Giacomo Meyerbeer
Manufacturer: Summit(Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000038IY
Release Date: 1993-02-02

Tracks:

When The Cruel War Is Over - Hoist Up The Flag Quick Step
Americus Quick Step
Fireman's Polka
Tenting On The Old Camp Ground
Dixie's Land Medley Quick Step
Battle Cry Of Freedom - Kingdom Coming Quick Step
Excerpt From William Tell
Sumter Light Guard March
Bonnie Eloise Quick Step
Amazing Grace
Glory Hallelujah Grand March
Scenes That Are Brightest - In Happy Moments Quick Step
Kazoodie Ko Whirl Overture
Woodman, Spare That Tree
Fireman's Quick Step
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Civil War Folk Song Medley: Oh, Suzanna, Garry Owen, Jordan Am A Hard Road, Bonnie Blue Flag, The Girl I Left Behind Me
Coronation March

Customer Reviews:

Authenric Music with traditional instruments........2000-09-17

For those of you who enjoy the music, as it was sung and played during the Civil War, this recording is a "must!" J.A. McA.

Living history.......1999-07-31

So shoot me. I like bagpipe music and I like fife and drum recordings and I like brass bands. Recently cruisin' the Internet brought me to the website of a company called Summit Records out in Arizona; and my eye was caught by the title (DCD 126) with a group calling itself The Americus Brass Band. I obtained a copy post haste and I want to all to know about it with equal rapidity. There is just short of 55 minutes of Civil War tunes played in a style that is "historically accurate, right down to the high military pitch and the clicking of the rotary valves on the original antique instruments employed" (as the notes tell us). The history of the band is available in those notes, so let me just dwell on the "music that still produces feelings of humor, joy, sadness, and patriotic pride." Well, what music does not produce at least one of those?--and I am not entirely sure there was anything about the Civil War of which we on either side should be particularly proud. But Sing a Song of Suffering seems to be an eternal way of making the best of a rotten situation during war time; and this CD is replete with such memories as "Tenting Tonight," "Amazing Grace," "Woodman, Spare That Tree," and even a little bit of the "William Tell Overture" and a Meyerbeer opera! In short, this is not the expected line up of soldier songs but selections that are "typical of that which might have been played by a group such as the Americus Brass band." I love it. Give it a try, please.