Guitar-heavy American rock music of the 1970s. The phrase originated in 1987: "Freedom Rock" was the title of a sold-only-on-TV music compilation. The memorably cheezy commercial featured two aging Cheech and Chong-type hippies sitting at the back of their Tour van; as I recall it, Hippy #1 hears what Hippy #2 is playing on his radio and asks, "Hey, man, is that freedom rock?" Hippy #2, says, "Yeah, man!" and Hippy #1 enthusiastically replies, "Well, turn it up, man!"

The tracklist of the compilation was:
The tracklist of the compilation was:
(Disc 1)
1. Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds 2. I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After 3. Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull 4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez 5. War - Edwin Starr 6. Black Magic Woman - Santana 7. Jump Into The Fire - Nilsson 8. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple 9. United We Stand - Brotherhood Of Man 10. One Tin Soldier (The Legend Of Billy Jack ) - Coven 11. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 12. Going Up The Country - Canned Heat
13. Reach Out Of The Darkness - Friend And Lover 14. A Horse With No Name - America 15. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 16. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band 17. Share The Land - The Guess Who 18. Friends - Elton John 19. Put Your Hand In ...