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| Released | 6 December 1994 (Canada) 28 March 1995 (US) | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 32:31 | |||
| Label | Nettwerk (Canada) Arista (US) | |||
| Producer | Pierre Marchand | |||
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The Freedom Sessions is an album by Sarah McLachlan which was released on 6 December 1994 on Nettwerk in Canada and on 28 March 1995 on Arista Records in the United States. The album contains previously unreleased alternative versions and remixes of seven songs that had appeared on McLachlan's 1993 album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, as well as a cover version of "Ol' '55" by Tom Waits. Many of the tracks were recorded during the same sessions as Fumbling. In subsequent live performances, some of these songs (most notably "Ice Cream" and "Hold On") were reworked to match the style in which they were played on this album.
The album was released in two versions: a standard CD, and an enhanced CD containing CD-ROM bonus material including interviews and music videos. The album was one of the first major enhanced CD releases, and sold more than 200,000 units.[1] As Toronto Star writer Peter Howell describes, The Freedom Sessions has "the distinction of being the first CD-ROM disc ever to chart on the influential Billboard Top 200 Albums chart".[2]
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- ^ Havarnek, Carrie, ed. (2008). Women Icons of Popular Music. Westport, Connecticut, United States: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 280. ISBN 9781573567831. Retrieved 29 August 2024.