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Track Listings
| 1. Over The Green Hills |
| 2. Worry |
| 3. Walk In My Shadow |
| 4. Wild Indian Woman |
| 5. Goin' Down Slow |
| 6. I'm A Mover |
| 7. The Hunter |
| 8. Moonshine |
| 9. Sweet Tooth |
| 10. Over The Green Hills |
| 11. I'm A Mover |
| 12. Waitin' On You |
| 13. Guy Stevens Blues |
| 14. Moonshine |
| 15. Sweet Tooth |
| 16. Visions Of Hell |
| 17. Woman By The Sea |
| 18. Over The Green Hills |
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There is not one possible reason why you wouldn't want this album. Every single track on it is superb. Let's have a look...
Over the Green Hills is a clever lead-in, very melodic, that makes you aware something great is coming, but the swirling, scorching intro of Worry catches you totally off guard. Walk In My Shadow is a grooving, swaggering track, with Fraser's bass providing the rhythm, and Kossoff's guitar playing a clever lead throughout the song (also later covered by guitar hero Leslie West). Very effective. Wild Indian Woman and I'm a Mover follow suit - driving, grinding. Goin' Down Slow and Moonshine are slower, more traditional blues songs, but still great. Perhaps the best song on the album is their rendition of the Hunter. Koss' guitar is exceptional.
It's funny how the more you listen to something, the more you hear. When I first heard Free, I was captivated by Rodgers' soulful vocals. Then it was Kossoff's expressive, impassioned guitar. With skills like these, it would be easy for Andy Fraser's bass playing to be overshadowed, but not so - he's far too talented for that. It's only now that I've become aware of just how great a drummer Simon Kirke is. I don't know much about drumming, but he's so forceful, and always creating interesting rhythms and fills. Clever fellas.
If you're still reading, stop now, and buy this album!
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Free's debut album, the blues-soaked "Tons of Sobs," shows that Fraser, Kossoff, Kirke, and Rodgers were right on the money from the start. Fiery originals like "Worry" and "I'm a Mover" jostle with standards such as "Goin' Down Slow" and more sombre material such as the bipartite "Over the Green Hills." This reissued CD features a further eight songs as bonus tracks, including unreleased numbers like "Visions of Hell" and "Guy Stevens Blues" and different versions of tracks like "Moonshine" and "Sweet Tooth." The excellent sound quality on this remastered disc is the icing on the cake, and makes this budget-priced release indispensable.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had the lp from years ago. Once I had this on my cd player the freshness and raw brilliance just came back to me. As if it were only yesterday. A bunch of kids who's love for the blues just shines thru. Paul Rodgers (the best white blues singer ever!), Koss's licks backed by the solid tandem of Kirke and Fraser. A great refreshing breathe of air after all these years!
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Free at there best
Joe Bonamassa rates this as his favourite album of all time, if it's good enough for Joe, it's good enough for me. Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. Johnston
Gorgeous music for Gorgeous People
Tons Of Sobs is just such a gorgeous album, the music is basic but so emotionally charged and so full of feeling it doesn't matter its just intense and so excellently played... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Cubby Kovu
Tons of Sobs, Free (2001 Island Remaster) - impressive debut, with...
This is an impressive debut from what would become a truly great band. The quartet of Paul Kossoff (guitar), Paul Rodgers (vocals), Simon Kirke (drums) and Andy Fraser (bass)... Read more
Published on 8 April 2010 by Victor
Amongst the Finest Raw Blues Rock of it's Era (1968)
I'm stunned that I'd never come across this album before, but a review in a recent music magazine gave it 5 stars so I decided to check it out. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2008 by G. Mountain
impossibly great
you gotta laugh at the fuss made by the media and the likes of the 'x factor' when they wax poetically about the youth of some of todays 'pop' stars - the members of free at the... Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2008 by the lone voice of reason
Raw talent, captured perfectly!!
I first bought this on vinyl in the eighties when the album was already nearly twenty years old, and was blown away by the vibrant energy, which is captured perfectly. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2008 by The Holy Mollusc
One of the greatest debut blues albums of all time
This first album from Free is a pick 'n' mix from their musical roots. It's blues, raw, rhythmic, passionate and ballsy. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2007 by Moz
Blistering Blues Rock!
This is a searing and raw record from an absurdly young bunch of guys. Originally I bought this back in the 70's and i still love it just as much today, its remained a favourite. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2006 by Kaycee
A much overlooked classic
As first albums goes this is as good as it gets. It came a year after the "definitive" Bealtes album Sgt Peppers which has had its fair share of plaudits but this album, in its... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2005 by Jonathan Clark
Hunting for the Blues
Free, at this point, were a highly improvisational band. Playing live, and not recording a record, was their forte. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2002 by Eric E. Weinraub
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