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Freewayman

album by Pat Donohue

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5501253 ↗
Source-derived summary

Freewayman is an album by American guitarist Pat Donohue, released in 2008. After three albums with ensemble players and guest musicians, Donohue released the entirely solo Freewayman.

Track listing

All songs by Pat Donohue unless otherwise noted

"Freewayman" – 2:18

"Big Bill Special" – 2:49

"Butch's Blues" – 3:29

"Nordeast Rag" – 3:29

"Whole Lotta You" – 3:41

"The Girl I Left Behind" (Traditional) – 2:12

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Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Freewayman” as album by Pat Donohue. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Freewayman, album and Donohue.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Freewayman, album and Donohue providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Freewayman”, the useful work is to connect “album by Pat Donohue” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5501253. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Freewayman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.