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Free Your Mind

Too Slim and the Taildraggers

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One Reviewer from Chicago says:  MIDWEST RECORD - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 11, 2009 UNDERWORLD TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS/Free Your Mind:  A delightful and glorious throwback to when music was in clubs and you could hang out with the act after the show (as long as you weren't an a*****e).  A raucous roadhouse brew of Americana that was made to facilitate beer and hooking up, let's hope the kids can bring us back an America that wasn't so PC that you couldn't smoke and drink and have a good time.  This CD feels like the gateway drug to such a remembrance. - Chris Spector A Nashville Reviewer said this about "Free Your Mind" Written by Don Crow    Thursday, 12 March 2009 Tim "Too Slim" Langford has an uncanny knack for writing songs that not only deal with his own personal experiences, but everyday life and its accompanying craziness as well.  And, that is the underlying theme of his latest CD, "Free Your Mind."  Tim wrote all eleven cuts on this set, and handles the guitar and vocal duties. They present quite a good mix of blues, Americana, and roots-rock, all driven by Slim's wailing guitar and smoky vocals. There's a lot to like on this one, too.  Check out the cool riff that drives the leadoff cut, "When You Love Somebody."  Slim plays a killer slide on a song about perseverance, "Been Through Hell to get a little heaven."  Slim assures us that everything's going to be all right in the end, with the uplifting messages present in "Peace With The Maker," and "Light."  And, a man hopelessly in love continually "stares at This Phone," trying to literally will it into ringing.  We had two favorites, too.  The title cut says to "Free Your Mind" by "pouring yourself a cold one" and "trying everything before you get old," because "life is better when you don't have a care!"  And, a song whose idea came to Slim from reading the daily newspaper is entitled "Last Train."  It's an ode to the general deterioration of society as a whole, and Slim's analogy here has us on a train about ready to jump the tracks, "with Hunter S. Thompson as the engineer! "Too Slim and the Taildraggers certainly bring a "personal touch" to their brand of blues that Everyman can relate to.  "Free Your Mind" is quite an enjoyable listen!  Highly recommended!   Until next time...Sheryl and Don Crow. 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.

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Too Slim's story-telling song writing and killer guitar will restore your faith in good old fashioned American rock & roll. This is the real thing, the way rock & roll is supposed to be, honest, fun, personal, real. Too Slim just keeps getting better with each new CD and Free Your Mind is his best work yet.

Better and Better

Through the years you can see the progression of experience and clarity of performance come through a little better each album. Thanks guys for all the great tunes.

Biography

Formed: 1986 in Spokane, WA

Genre: Blues

Years Active: '90s, '00s

Too Slim & the Taildraggers are a hit on several continents, but at home in the Washington state city of Spokane, they're a little like the Rodney Dangerfield of blues bands. Despite the band's release of more than half-a-dozen CDs, and numerous national and international tours, many citizens, when first meeting the band's frontman and leader, Spokane native Tim "Too Slim" Langford, scratch their heads in non-recognition and ask what his profession is. Upon finding out that he's a blues musician,...
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