- Included among the Record Descriptions of Favorite Albums (Part 1).
- The name of this double-album, Freedom and the cover shot makes one expect a group of protest songs, and there are several of those.
Freedom (Various Artists) (1975): The name of this double-album, Freedom and the cover shot makes one expect a group of protest songs, and there are several of those: Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”, Country Joe and the Fish’s “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag”, Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John”, Steppenwolf’s “Monster”, and “United We Stand” by Brotherhood of Man. But the record covers a lot more ground than that, also encompassing Linda Ronstadt’s first hit song “Different Drum” (actually by the band Stone Poneys rather than by her individually), Otis Redding’s classic “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”, “San Franciscan Nights” by Eric Burdon and the Animals (not included on The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals, Volume II), Joan Baez’s “Joe Hill” (a paean to the labor organizer legend that she performed at Woodstock), Cream’s “Crossroads” (the Robert Johnson classic), and Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “All Along the Watchtower” that is on everyone’s short list of the greatest Bob Dylan covers of all time.