And The Love Is Free

The Wishes and the Glitch is the fifth full-length album by Say Hi.

This 1997 release by Too Slim & the Taildraggers is chock-full of the wide-ranging spectrum of blues in its plethora of styles as done by this fun group in their own inimitable fashion. The thing that always seems to come through on this group's discs is their love of playing. This band is rooted in the blues, but they are not confined to any one style of playing, and the wide-roaming influences of non-commercial radio expose wider and wider varieties of music which burst out all over this disc. A brief sampling of the styles shows that you've got the rockabilly swing of "Uranium Blues," and the Chicago sound of "A Girl Like Mine," and the New Orleans-influenced, Caribbean-inflected rhythms of "Have to Let You Go."

On 2009's Free Your Mind, the 10th album by Seattle blues band Too Slim & the Taildraggers, the band digs deeply into the combination of classic Chicago blues roots and contemporary, rock-tinged, in-your-face attack that they spent the last several albums perfecting. Tim "Too Slim" Langford's raw, gravel-and-nails singing style matches his thick, heavy guitar tone to a T as he leads the Taildraggers through this set of blues-baked, house-rocking tunes.