Freedom Ride (album)

Freedom Ride
Studio album by
Released13 March 2015
RecordedLoud Recording Studio, Nashville Tennessee
GenreCountry
Length48:00
LabelLiberation Music
ProducerTroy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley chronology
The Great Country Songbook
(2013)
Freedom Ride
(2015)
Things I Carry Around
(2016)

Freedom Ride is the tenth studio album by Australian country music artist Troy Cassar-Daley. The album was released in March 2015 and peaked at number 4 on the ARIA Charts.

The album's centrepiece and title track was performed at the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride, which had been led by the political activist Charles Perkins.[1]

Cassar-Daley supported the album with a national tour commencing in Swan Hill on 30 April and concluding in Tweed Heads on 14 November 2015.[2]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015, the album was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Country Album.[3] At the 2016 Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth the album won Album of the Year.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Guardian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Troy Cassar-Daley 's new album Freedom Ride a satisfying experience". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  3. ^ "ARIA Award Search Troy Cassar-Daley". Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  4. ^ "2010s". Country. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2018.