Free as the Wind

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Free as the Wind
The Crusaders- Free As The Wind.jpg
Studio album by
Released1977
StudioHollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length42:49
Label ABC Records
Producer Stewart Levine, The Crusaders
The Crusaders chronology
Those Southern Knights
(1976)
Free as the Wind
(1977)
Images
(1978)

Free as the Wind is a studio album by The Crusaders issued in 1977 on ABC Records. [1] The album reached No. 8 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic, where it received four stars out of five, wrote "When the material is this good, everything falls into place from there; the grooves are deeper, the soloing by all five Crusaders is more melodic and probing, and while Sample provides a few brass and string arrangements, this is just harmless decoration, neither a necessity nor a hindrance. This would be the Crusaders' high-water mark in the post-Wayne Henderson years, and it can stand tall with anything they've done." [3]

Track listing

Adapted from album's text. [1]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Free as the Wind" Joe Sample 6:17
2."I Felt the Love" Stix Hooper 5:10
3."The Way We Was" Robert Popwell 5:24
4."Nite Crawler" Larry Carlton 4:45
5."Feel It"Stix Hooper, Lamont Dozier, Larry Carlton, Robert Popwell, Wilton Felder 4:15
6."Sweet N' Sour"Joe Sample8:57
7."River Rat"Wilton Felder2:29
8."It Happens Everyday"Joe Sample5:40

Personnel

Adapted from album's text. [1]

Technical

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape [4] 41
US Top Soul LPs ( Billboard ) [2] 9

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Crusaders: Free As The Wind. ABC Records. December 1976.
  2. 1 2 "The Crusaders Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard .
  3. 1 2 S. Ginell, Richard. "The Crusaders: Free As The Wind". AllMusic.
  4. "The Crusaders: Free As The Wind (Billboard 200)". billboard.com. Billboard.