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Freedom
Sky High
Freedom
Genres: Blues, Rock
 
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Freedom, the 12th album from SKY HIGH, featuring "critically acclaimed" Swedish blues/rock guitar legend Clas Yngstrom, is a heavy guitar revelation which includes 16 killer trax (69 minutes) of outstanding, blisteri...  more »

     
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All Artists: Sky High
Title: Freedom
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bor
Original Release Date: 9/1/2002
Release Date: 9/1/2002
Album Type: Import
Genres: Blues, Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 606041131620

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Freedom, the 12th album from SKY HIGH, featuring "critically acclaimed" Swedish blues/rock guitar legend Clas Yngstrom, is a heavy guitar revelation which includes 16 killer trax (69 minutes) of outstanding, blistering-hot, intense powerful blues/rock riffage of the highest order. On Freedom (their first disc for GROOVEYARD RECORDS, a new label dedicated to TOTAL GUITAR), SKY HIGH went into a studio in the backwoods of Sweden earlier this year and laid down the blues/rock law. Going back to their heavy power trio roots and keeping true to the format, Clas Yngstrom & Sky High recorded Freedom "live" in the studio and got down to some serious blues/rock business. This is the way REAL blues/rock music is meant to be played...RAW, LOUD & HARD or, as we like to refer to it @ the grooveyard,"RAW BLUES POWER!!!" On the Freedom sessions, Clas & Co. dig deep into their best & heaviest material, complete with several kool surprises including a "bad-ass" version of "Freedom" by Hendrix. The end result features some of the most incredible, fierce, over-the-top, awesome beyond all reason HEAVY GUITAR THREE PIECE KICK ASS CYCODELIC BLOOZE ROCK you have ever heard. Sky High has been together in one form or another kicking blues/rock ass for over two decades (23 years to be exact), played on over 25 t.v. shows, had two top 10 singles and have gigged extensively around the world with over 3000 gigs under their belts including tours of India, Ecuador, Japan, and playing in front of 300,000 people at the "Glasnost '88 Rock Fest." They have also had their music featured in the film "The American Way" starring Dennis Hopper and have even "jammed" with Z.Z. TOP (according to the blues/rock gospel, Billy Gibbons aka Rev. Willy G. preaches that Clas Yngstrom is a guitar GOD!!!) Although relatively unknown in the States, Clas Yngstrom is well known in certain circles throughout the rest of the world and, for people not familar with Sky High, Freedom is the perfect place to start. For those of you who are familiar with Clas Yngstrom, this is the SKY HIGH album you have been waiting for brother Clas to get down on. On the Freedom disc he takes his guitar rite over the edge and he never looks back. Clas Yngstrom is without a doubt one of the greatest get-down hendrixy heavy guitar axeslingers we have ever heard and he waves his blues/rock heavy guitar freak flag HIGH on Freedom. The SKY HIGH - Freedom disc is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to fans of JIMI HENDRIX, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, ROBIN TROWER, FRANK MARINO, ERIC GALES, GARY MOORE, ERIC CLAPTON with CREAM, classic vintage-era Z.Z. TOP and just about any other killer get-down rippin' blues/rock axemaster you have ever heard. Clas Yngstrom is definitely rite up there with the BEST of them and he deserves all the credit he can get. As an added bonus, Swedish guitar virtuoso Thomas Larsson guests on "Bluestown" & "I ain?t beggin?" where the two Swedish axemasters rip and tear it up on these two killer trax. Serious blues/rock fans take note: if you dig your blues hard and heavy with an emphasis on the guitar, then Sky High is the band for you and Freedom will hit you where it counts and blow you away completely.

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CD Reviews

Outstanding TRIO work...
50 | hermitage, pa United States | 04/16/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Great three-piece band with NO OVERDUBS; a blueprint for power-trio wannabes everywhere. Clas Yngstrom is the best guitar player most Americans never heard of, and a guy who does Jimi better than SRV. SRV could play all the notes but never really got the "feel" of Hendrix; Clas gets at least some of that feeling. Sky High's rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" is exquisite and faithful to Hendrix's version. I don't know if Hendrix ever performed this tune live, and I wouldn't have thought it was possible to do a really good version as a trio, but Clas and the boys proved me wrong. The arrangement is excellent and I think J would have loved it. Worth the price alone. The only sour note on this disc is the tribute-to-Jimi tune ("Jimi") which is almost unbearable for me to listen to. Otherwise, this thing is jam-packed with killer blues-rock, including GREAT guitar playing.



Update: Thanks to the Hendrix Experience Box Set, I've now heard Hendrix doing "All Along the Watchtower" live (from the Isle of Wight show), and in all honesty, I think it's a pretty awful performance. Sky High's version is exponentially better."
Great bluesrock from Dalarna in Sweden!
Simon Løven | Trosvik | 07/30/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"On this CD, Sky High replays some of their best songs. This is bluesrock at its best. This power trio from Sweden, with the great Claes Yngstrom on guitars and vocals, backed up with the best rythme section I know, Osten and Arne "Mr Dynamite.



Simply great."
Sweet blues!
aggiebrandon01 | Austin, Texas United States | 05/03/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this CD, I am not usually a fan of buying CDs, but I made an exception for this band. They have been around for a long time, its a wonder that I have never heard of them before. I cannot say enough about this CD, it embodies everything that makes blues great, the loud guitar and awesome rifs. But above all that you can really feel and hear the emotion Clas puts into his music especially on restless love, jimi, and blues for the green."