This long running Seattle based blues-rock trio features Tim “Too Slim” Langford on guitar and vocals with a Taildraggers rhythm section comprised of bass man Dave Nordstrom, and drummer Rudy Simone. Guest artists contribute accordian, keyboard and , for the calypso feel on 'Mexico' , steel drums.
In the sleeve notes, Langford describes this, their 14th, album as "a collection of true stories, personal feelings and 'tall tales' and says "the songs are all very personal". Its main inspiration, and title, stems from an encounter with a fortune teller in Oslo, Norway who made some uncannily perceptive predictions.
I confess I find it hard to find too much of the promised soul bearing on most of the tracks. True, on 'Cowboot Boot' there are the lines "I got nothin' to show for my rambling, but a bunch of grey hairs and an achin' liver" but, for most part there's little in the way of a confessional feel.
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The raunchy lyrics to 'Baby Likes to Ride' could only be called personal if you think of ZZ Top's 'Gimme Me All Your Lovin' as a tender love song. Langford sings "she likes my car cause my engine is so big and before every ride she'll even polish up my rig" without apparent irony and the track is sandwiched between an ode to a 'sugar mummy' (She Gives Me Money) and a "voodoo queen" (Spell On Me).
In short, a unreconstructed male boogie swagger informs the songs more than self reflectiveness. It's mildly entertaining but not much more.
11t 47.34m
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