hypersongs

Freeborn Man

A MerleFest performance by Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Fleck, Sam Bush and others of the Allison and Lindsay song.
Béla Fleck (1992)

Keith Allison and Mark Lindsay wrote it, and Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded it on Alias Pink Puzz (Columbia, July 1969). Jimmy Martin made it a bluegrass staple, and Wikipedia lists covers by the Outlaws in 1976, Glen Campbell, Jerry Reed, Junior Brown and Allison himself. Tony Rice recorded it on his album Guitar.

Our upload is titled "Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush - Freeborn Man". The same performance circulates as MerleFest 1992 with Jerry Douglas and Mark Schatz added, though JamBase places the first MerleFest meeting of the group in 1988, so the date is uncertain. We found no official release, no setlist.fm entry and no chart.

On stage

  • 1992, MerleFest Per the video titles; JamBase suggests 1988.

Covers and versions

  • Jimmy Martin (1969) Made it a bluegrass staple.

Sources

  1. Alias Pink Puzz, Wikipedia
  2. Tony Rice at MerleFest, JamBase
  3. Songs of a Freeborn Man, CMH Records