Celebrate Freedom

Celebrate Freedom
Studio album by Phil Driscoll
Released	1984
Label	Sparrow Records
Producer	Lari Goss, Phil Driscoll
Phil Driscoll chronology
I Exalt Thee (1983) Celebrate Freedom (1984) Power of Praise (1985)

Celebrate Freedom is a 1984 album by virtuoso trumpeter and singer Phil Driscoll. It is an inspirational album of patriotic songs. The album won the 1985 GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year.^[1] The 1984 release was on LP, and the album was released on cassette and CD in the 1990s.

Cross Rhythms' review of the album stated that "On Celebrate Freedom Phil puts down some vocals as well as his already well established 'Miles Davis eat your heart out' trumpet style." The UK publication also noted Driscoll's "Joe Cocker-ish approach to blue-eyed soul singing".^[2]

Track listing[]

1. "The Star-Spangled Banner"
2. "America the Beautiful"
3. "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
4. "Statue of Liberty"
5. "God of Our Fathers"
6. "I Love America"
7. "We Are His People"
8. "Land of the Free"
9. "America"
10. "E Pluribus Unum"

Personnel[]

• Phil Driscoll – trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn, arranger
• Hadley Hockenssmith, Joe Hardy - guitar
• Ricky Keller - bass
• Jim Keltner – drums
• James Robertson - congas, timbales
• Lari Goss – keyboards
• Terry Blackwood – vocals
• Harlan Rogers – organ, keyboards
• London National Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra
• Duncan Sisters, Lari Goss, Melodie Tunney, Roni Goss, Sharon Scott, Terry Blackwood, The Christ Missionary Baptist Church Choir, William C. Brown - backing vocals

References[]

External links[]

• Celebrate Freedom at AllMusic
• Celebrate Freedom at iTunes