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Highway | 
| Artist: Free
Label: Commercial Marketing
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
Buy New: £4.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 36036
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 58 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731458622628
EAN: 7314586226284
ASIN: B00005V1AW
Release Date: February 4, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | The Highway Song | | • | The Stealer | | • | On My Way | | • | Be My Friend | | • | Sunny Day | | • | Ride On A Pony | | • | Love You So | | • | Bodie | | • | Soon I Will Be Gone | | • | My Brother Jake | | • | Only My Soul | | • | Ride On A Pony | | • | Be My Friend | | • | Rain | | • | The Stealer |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Before you die you NEED to hear Highway !! July 25, 2008
B. M. Walker
The songs, the feel and the playing on Highway are truely outstanding. br / br /Slagged off that it wasn't a suitable follow up to Fire Water -what utter crap / media blindness!!!! Like Revolver outstrips Pepper so this outstrips Fire W -single and all. br / br /Before you die, you MUST listen to Be my Friend, Love you so, Highway Song and Bodie
 For me, the weakest link in The Free Odyssey April 9, 2007
Moz (Birmingham England)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Free are my favourite all time band and I've read the other reviews here a little surprised. This is just to add some balance. I just don't believe this holds a candle to the eponymous Free or Tons of Sobs or even the much decried Free at Last. It's thin and weak and would have benefited from the inclusion of the contemporaneous 'My Brother Jake' - a sad omission. br / br /There are just too many substandard offerings here -Highway, On my Way, Bodie, Ride on a Pony. Okay, so Stealer, Soon I Will be Gone, Be my Friend and Sunny Day make a fair rearguard defence But I've become accustomed to so much better from these guys. Sorry but, if I'm recommending a Free album, it's anyone but this one. To me it sounds tired, produced to satisfy contractual obligations.
awesome album September 1, 2006
salopian (shropshire,england)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
by received wisdom, this is supposed to be one of free`s lesser albums, coming on the heels of "fire and water" and it`s success. this view, in my opinion, is rubbish. "fire and water"is a great album showcasing and building upon free`s raw,earthy blues, "highway" is a much more considered album allowing the band to take a step forward in a more soulful direction. just listen to paul rodgers` vocals at their peak (be my friend, soon i will be gone), kossoff`s guitar singing at the end of "be my friend", the ballsiness of the great lost free single "the stealer", fraser`s unique, funky bass lines and simon kirke`s solid drumwork underpinning the sound. everything about this album just demonstrates what a truly great band free were and i recommend it unreservedly to everyone who appreciates good rock music,these are craftsmen at work.
sublime July 13, 2004
S CRAIG (Perthsire)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Every one of Free's albums holds a special place in both my vinyl and cd collections. This wonderful record is no different. Every band is in imperious form on these songs and it shows on every track. From the sexy grooves of "Stealer" and "Ride a Pony", to the soulful, beautiful "Be My Friend", to the heart-wrenching "Love you So" ( which is to be played at my funeral )every second is perfection. There's a raw, live feel to the album, with so much space and room in the playing. The metronomic Kirke supports the interweaving lines of Kossoff and Fraser as the genius of Paul soars above.brKossoff's understated mastery is unique. When you listen to him, truly less is more. And no question, Paul Rogers is the greatest rock singer who ever drew breath. Every phrase seems to be torn from his soul.brYoung musicians, open your ears and your minds, and marvel. This is rock music as it should be played and so seldom is anymore.
Is there anything Better? February 13, 2002
Eric E. Weinraub (Issaquah, Washington United States)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Be My friend always stops me in my tracks. The band felt that this was both a seminal and peak moment as artists when they recorded this track. Free were full of blues power and pain. This album highlights the struggle that being a great blues band was.
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