''Freedom of Sound'' is the second solo studio album by Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock band Poison. It is a country rock album released in 2005, the same year Bret Michaels was a judge on the country music reality tv show ''

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Content

The album features fourteen new tracks and four previously released songs (bonus tracks) from his first two studio albums. The lead-off single from the album, " All I Ever Needed" featuring

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appeared on Billboard's "Hot Country Songs" chart, with its best position being number 45. All I Ever Needed also features a music video which appeared on Billboard's "Hot Videoclip Tracks" chart in 2008. "Right Now, Right Here" and "Open Road" which Bret performed live on

were also released as singles. The album also includes a new country version of the #1 smash hit Poison song "

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", a duet version of "Raine" (feat.

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) and two unreleased demos; "Future Ex Wife" and "The One You Get". "Walk Away" and a solo version of the Poison song " Something to Believe In" were recorded earlier on the unique storytellers CD Ballads, Blues & Stories, but never released on a full music studio album until now.

Track listing

# "Rock 'n My Country" # "Driven" # "Open Road" # " All I Ever Needed" (feat.

) # "New Breed of American Cowboy" # "Right Now, Right Here" # "Lookin' for a Good Time" # "It's All Good" # "

" (country version featuring Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down,

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) # "Bittersweet" (Originally on '' Songs of Life'') # "Raine" (feat.

) # "Menace to Society" (Originally on '' Songs of Life'') # "Walk Away" # " Something to Believe In" (solo version) # "Future Ex Wife" # "The One You Get" # "Human Zoo" (Originally on '' A Letter from Death Row'') # "The Last Breath" (Originally on '' A Letter from Death Row'')

Personnel

* Bret Michaels - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica *Jamie Laritz - guitar, bass, drums mandolin/dobro *

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- bass *Shawn Hughes - drums, percussion

Additional musicians

*Rusty Danmyer - steel guitar *Renee Truex - violin *

- additional vocals (4) *

- additional vocals (5 & 9) *

- additional vocals (9) *Brad Arnold - additional vocals (9) *Captain Clay Ckarkson - additional vocals (5 & 7) * Dan Donovan - additional vocals (5 & 7) *

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- background vocals *Kim Everett - background vocals *Darien Keith Thompson - background vocals

Charts

''Singles''

References

External links

Bret Michaels Official Web Site

Bret Michaels
at MySpace
Official Poison Web Site

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