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The Ballad of Free

Adam Blake, Cosmik Debris (cosmik.com), February 2004

IT'S HARD TO imagine nowadays, but in the strict context of the then-emerging British blues boom, Free were a punk band, and Tons Of Sobs – their debut album from 1968 – was very much a punk album.

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