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Free Your Mind

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Good old fashioned american rock & roll is hard to find these days. Look no further, this is the real thing. Tim's story-telling song writing and killer guitar work will restore your faith in rock & roll.

I have heard TOO Slim before and this is really a GREAT CD! The lyrics are so moving and could easily be adapted to movies! This is a great collector piece for anyone wanting Rock, Blues, etc. as it incorporates all things.

I love this CD It has everything for everybody. Makes me feel like dancing. Got to go to the website for Too Slim and the taildragers and see where they are playing.

I recommend this CD to anyone and everyone

Too Slim and the Taildraggers
Free Your Mind
Underworld Records
By James "Skyy Dobro" Walker
11 songs; Time 52:01; Library Quality
Style: American Roots Music

Langford's genius is setting lyrics to music led by his legendary guitar work. Across Langford's career, imaginative guitar playing and distinctive tones on electric guitar, slide, and acoustic stake his claim as a master guitarist currently with rising recognition.

"Free Your Mind" is Too Slim and the Taildraggers' 10th studio album since 1988. Its eleven original songs are a slice of American roots music, with influences from Blues, Americana and Rock. By 2003's "Tales of Sin and Redemption," Too Slim and his changing rhythm section, The Taildraggers, have truly created an eclectic style that has become a genre all its own allowing them to easily cross-over and appeal to audiences of various musical tastes.

For the fist time ever on a Too Slim album, a female singer did lead vocals: Lauren Evans sang the last cut, a personal "prayer of sorts," titled "The Light."

The CD's first track, "When You Love Somebody," launches off the pad by marrying the heartland rock of John Cougar Mellencamp with the southern rock influences of Lynyrd Skynyrd for a kick-butt opening.

There may be a time to keep you mouth shut, but concerning "Free Your Mind," this is not the time. Say it loudly, say it proudly, Too Slim and the Taildraggers rock!

A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
by Mark S. Tucker

C'mon, you know that a band with a moniker like this one isn't gonna be yer average run of the mill group, don'cha? And you're right. Too Slim and the Taildraggers take the down-and-gritty hard blues path, greasy and funky, a power trio centered in Tim "Too Slim" Langford's blazing axe. With all the great finessy discs I've been covering lately, I really found myself needing something for setting my size 10s down on the floor with a rhythmic stomp and a bit of headbangery. This fills the bill nicely.

Langford puts the smoke sauce in his playing and singing, with a guitar as raspy as his voice, both crying out in lamentive wails while traveling back to the days when the whole dirty white blues thang was cranking up mucho heavy. You'll hear bits of T.S. McPhee, Alvin Lee, Adrian Gurvitz, Billy Gibbons, Paul Kossoff, and some of the later Southern crunch boys (Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynrd, Rossington-Collins, etc.), especially when Langford double tracks himself, smokin' with 60s and 70s pysch, funk, and distortion.

And the guy did damn near everything on the tech side here, too: recording, engineering, mixing, then co-producing the entire shebang with his wife Nancy--and he wrote all the songs. The CD has raggedy edges but they're perfectly appropriate, part and parcel of the woof and warp of the entire package. Free Your Mind isn't a prettified heavy disc but a glorified garage job designed to stay in the gutter and cook. That Ted Nugent, Steppenwolf, Blue Oyster Cult, Johnny & Edgar Winter, and a whole raft of others have chosen the band to tour with them speaks to that aspect. I suspect this cat was punkin' big time before he arrived at this point--could be wrong, but there's a feel to it like that--but he sure as hell figured out what's what here.

A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
by Mark S. Tucker

C'mon, you know that a band with a moniker like this one isn't gonna be yer average run of the mill group, don'cha? And you're right. Too Slim and the Taildraggers take the down-and-gritty hard blues path, greasy and funky, a power trio centered in Tim "Too Slim" Langford's blazing axe. With all the great finessy discs I've been covering lately, I really found myself needing something for setting my size 10s down on the floor with a rhythmic stomp and a bit of headbangery. This fills the bill nicely.

Langford puts the smoke sauce in his playing and singing, with a guitar as raspy as his voice, both crying out in lamentive wails while traveling back to the days when the whole dirty white blues thang was cranking up mucho heavy. You'll hear bits of T.S. McPhee, Alvin Lee, Adrian Gurvitz, Billy Gibbons, Paul Kossoff, and some of the later Southern crunch boys (Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynrd, Rossington-Collins, etc.), especially when Langford double tracks himself, smokin' with 60s and 70s pysch, funk, and distortion.

And the guy did damn near everything on the tech side here, too: recording, engineering, mixing, then co-producing the entire shebang with his wife Nancy--and he wrote all the songs. The CD has raggedy edges but they're perfectly appropriate, part and parcel of the woof and warp of the entire package. Free Your Mind isn't a prettified heavy disc but a glorified garage job designed to stay in the gutter and cook. That Ted Nugent, Steppenwolf, Blue Oyster Cult, Johnny & Edgar Winter, and a whole raft of others have chosen the band to tour with them speaks to that aspect. I suspect this cat was punkin' big time before he arrived at this point--could be wrong, but there's a feel to it like that--but he sure as hell figured out what's what here.

After listening to Too Slim's latest, Free Your Mind, we were inspired to whip out our entire collection. What an amazing talent Tim has. The last 4 releases have just been unbelievable. This is a must have addition to anyone's Blues collection.