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Jim DeRogatis - Chicago Sun-Times Mr. Scott Free is an artist (a word I don't use lightly) whose music grabs me by the throat and by my heart. He reaffirms my ideas, and he challenges me to take them further. He delights me and shames me. He spins my chakras. His latest release, THEY CALL ME MR. FREE, is long overdue and couldn't have come at a more perfect time. While even some of our communities are wondering if we're asking for too much, Scott tells us we're not asking enough--of ourselves, of society, of those we give our support to. " Taylor Cage - host of 'Queer Waves' on KOOP Austin, Texas on the 'Living Dead'... 'Gay/Lesbian American Music Award nominee maintains the aggro-punk queercore energy of his 1997 'Getting Off' disc while using synthesizers to great effect. The most unexpected and revelatory moments occur on the vintage disco of "Leather Ghosts", the sophisticated cocktail jazz of "Worthy", and the flawless pop of "Meet You At The Church" (a musical love letter to Morrissey)." Gregg Shapiro - Chicago Free Press "Confounding expectations is what Free does best. Whether it's singing a punk song with an acoustic guitar or crooning a jazz cabaret tune with nothing but a piano to accompany him, Scott Free is unconventional and versatile". His appearance "is that of a shit-kickin'linebacker who looks like he could be Henry Rollins brother. Hetero audiences probably aren't expecting songs about gay liberation and sex in bathhouses from someone who looks like him." Ken Knox - Unzipped Magazine "'MISTER FREE's songs say so much so well, tackling so many ideas other songwriters shy away from, that it makes anything I might add seem instantly unnecessary. Don't try to categorize it. Just listen to it. " Bill Realman Stella - Host/Producer, WRSU 88.7 FM, New Brunswick, NJ "the Chicago singer/songwriter has been shaking up the queer-rock world for years" Time Out Chicago "The songs on They Call Me Mr. Free sound like they were put together over a 10-year sentence at a circus inside a prison." Brady Earnhart - musician "Out music from an outspoken, overlooked master. The best album of the new year. Not just the best album by an Out Gay artist: the best so far, period." Bill Realman Stella - Host/Producer, WRSU 88.7 FM, New Brunswick, NJ "Think Rufus Wainwright with a Mohawk or Cole Porter wearing an ACT-UP t-shirt." Paul V. - IN Magazine "Scott is, first and foremost, a genuine artist, the Mapplethorpe of musical expression. His intelligent, provocative and sometimes brutal lyrics will make you laugh and make you squirm, all at the same time. This explicit CD is not for the squeamish, milquetoast masses...but they don't know art when they see it anyway." Chris Wilson, Audiofile. "Mr. Scott Free is an artist whose music grabs me by the throat and by my heart. His latest release, THEY CALL ME MR. FREE, is long overdue and couldn't have come at a more perfect time. While even some of our communities are wondering if we're asking for too much, Scott tells us we're not asking enough--of ourselves, of society, of those we give our support to. " Taylor Cage - host of 'Queer Waves' on KOOP Austin, Texas
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