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Tons of SOBs [Limited] [Remaster] by Free (CD, 1968)

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Record LabelIsland (Label)

UPC4988005284488

eBay Product ID (ePID)28050201679

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year1968

GenreRock

Run Time38 Mins 55 Seconds

StyleHard Rock

ArtistFree

Release TitleTons of SOBs [Limited] [Remaster]

Additional Product Features

DistributionMSI Music Distribution

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Additional informationTONS OF SOBS is the 1969 remastered reissue by U.K. rockers Free and includes "Worry," "Walk In My Shadow," and "I'm A Mover," and includes eight bonus tracks recorded live at BBC Sessions. Although Free was never destined to scrape the same skies as Led Zeppelin, when they first burst out of the traps in 1968, close to a year ahead of Jimmy Page and company, they set the world of British blues-rock firmly on its head. The band was a blistering combination of youth, ambition, and, despite those tender years, experience that across the course of their debut album, did indeed lay the groundwork for all that Zeppelin would embrace. The fact that Free and Zeppelin were cut from the same cloth is immediately apparent, even before you start comparing the versions of "The Hunter" included on both bands' debut albums. Where Free streaks ahead, however, is in their refusal to compromise their own vision of the blues. Even at its most commercial ("I'm a Mover" and "Worry"), Tons of Sobs has a density that makes Zeppelin and the rest of the era's rock contemporaries sound like flyweights by comparison. ~ Dave Thompson

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo