The Freedom Sessions
CD by Sarah McLachlan
Released	1994
Recorded	1993
Genre	Singer-songwriter
Length	32 min 31 sec
Record label	Nettwerk/Arista
Producer	Pierre Marchand
Professional reviews
allmusic.com	3 stars out of 5	link
Sarah McLachlan Chronology
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)	The Freedom Sessions (1994)	Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff (1996)

The Freedom Sessions is an album by Sarah McLachlan which was released in 1994 by Nettwerk Records. The album consisted primarily of previously unreleased alternate versions and remixes of McLachlan recordings, plus a cover version of "Ol' 55" by Tom Waits. Many of the tracks were recorded during the same sessions as McLachlan's 1993 album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. CD cover File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Interference colors. ... Sarah McLachlan Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Minutes are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. ... This article is about the unit of time. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Nettwerk is a large Canadian independent record label and music management firm. ... Arista Records was founded in 1975 by Clive Davis, and named after his secondary school honor society. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Pierre Marchand (born 1958 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian musician and record producer. ... Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is a 1993 album by Sarah McLachlan. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff is a 1996 album by Sarah McLachlan. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Sarah McLachlan Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Nettwerk is a large Canadian independent record label and music management firm. ... In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. ... Tom Waits Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits on December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is a 1993 album by Sarah McLachlan. ...

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. Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...

Track Listing

All songs by McLachlan, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Elsewhere" (4:33)
2. "Plenty" (3:20)
3. "Mary" (3:55)
4. "Good Enough" (3:20)
5. "Hold On" (6:43)
6. "Ice Cream" (2:30)
7. "Ice" (3:58)
8. "Ol' 55" (4:12) - Tom Waits