With the Fourth Of July, Independence Day Holiday upon us shortly, today for 5 on A Friday we put a Bag Of Songs spin on freedom and being free. Something we here in the USA often take for granted, but around the world people are still dying everyday in their struggle to achieve it.

1: Elliott Smith - A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free
Buy From A Basement On The Hill
2: Bright Eyes - Stray Dog Freedom
Buy Four Winds EP
3: Cream - I Feel Free
Buy Gold
4: Son Volt - Live Free
Buy Trace
5: Black Mountain - Stay Free
Buy Spiderman 3 Soundtrack

Today's 5 on a Friday is a handful of new releases with titles "loosely" based on the phone company/DSL connection issues I've been having this week. Man oh man, can anyone else remember what you did before the internet explosion. It was a long week to say the least.
1: Son Volt - Slow Hearse
Buy The Search
2: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - The World Stops Turning
Buy Living With The Living
3: Sister Vanilla - Down
Buy Little Pop Rock
4: Limbeck - Big Drag
Buy Limbeck
5: Wilco - Impossible Germany
Buy Sky Blue Sky