Tim Carroll - Free Again

Blending cocky, good-humored rock & roll with tasty, understated country accents (and adding some limber guitar work for seasoning), Tim Carroll's Not For Sale would have been one of the finest major-label releases of 2000 if the major label that commissioned it hadn't decided to shelve it, which just goes to show you shouldn't trust a multinational conglomerate to make a decision about something as important as rock & roll. Once again managing his own affairs, Carroll has released Free Again, a set of tunes he cut in 1999 while waiting out Not For Sale's release; it's a bit more downbeat and less chipper than Not For Sale (not difficult to understand, given the circumstances), but it still offers plenty of cool rockin' evidence that Carroll is one of the finest unsung talents on the music scene today. Read More