The Freed Man was the debut album by
Sebadoh (
Lou Barlow and
Eric Gaffney). The title refers to the Friedman Complex apartments at
Smith College where Lou Barlow was living with his then-girlfriend Kathleen Billus. As Barlow says in the liner notes, "... we named our first co-headlining tape after the Friedman dormitory where we both were living against regulations, with our girlfriends on the Smith (all women's) College campus .."