Free as the Wind

Free as the Wind
Studio album by The Crusaders
Released	December 1976
Studio	Hollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz, Jazz fusion
Length	42:49
Label	MCA
Producer	Stewart Levine, The Crusaders
The Crusaders chronology
Those Southern Knights (1976) Free as the Wind (1976) Images (1978)

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Free as the Wind is a studio album by The Crusaders issued in December 1976 on MCA Records. The album rose to No. 8 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart.

Tracklisting

Adapted from album's text.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Free as the Wind"	Joe Sample	6:17
2.	"I Felt the Love"	Stix Hooper	5:10
3.	"The Way We Was"	Robert Popwell	5:24
4.	"Nite Crawler"	Larry Carlton	4:45
5.	"Feel It"	Stix Hooper, Lamont Dozier, Larry Carlton, Robert Popwell, Wilton Felder	4:15
6.	"Sweet N' Sour"	Joe Sample	8:57
7.	"River Rat"	Wilton Felder	2:29
8.	"It Happens Everyday"	Joe Sample	5:40

Personnel

Adapted from album's text.

• Robert "Pops" Popwell - bass
• Stix Hooper - drums, percussion
• Arthur Adams (track: B4), Dean Parks, Larry Carlton, Roland Bautista (tracks: B1, B3) - guitar
• Joe Sample - keyboards, string and horn orchestration
• Paulinho Da Costa - percussion (track: B1)
• Ralph MacDonald - special percussion
• Wilton Felder - saxophone

Technical

• Rik Pekkonen - engineer, mixing
• Frank Mulvey - art direction
• Tim Ritchie - album design
• Ed Simpson - photography

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape	41
US Top Soul LPs (Billboard)	9