Big Rock Candy Mountain (Blog - Chicago,Usa)

Rev. Frost has released his first record! Indeed. So before you read any further, go visit Spread the Good Word and read all about it. Then hop over to Closed For Private Party Records to order your very own copy of Spread the Good Word Vol. 1: South of Hell, France. I got my copy a couple of days ago, and it hasn't left my cd player yet. The man's a genius.

Tuwa's Shanty & The Roots Canal (Blog - Gainesville,Usa)

The good Reverend has a CD out, a ten-track gallop through roots rock and outlaw country. It's the aural equivalent of Leone's Man with No Name, a rock star Man with No Name who plays chunky distorted electric guitar and sings like a cross between Tom Waits and Link Wray, backed with rollicking barhouse piano or funhouse organ.
It's a bold CD--you've guessed this already--bold and gritty and a lot of fun, with some remarkable tracks on it, most of them covers of songs that have been taken apart and rebuilt to get there faster and more dangerously.

Copy, Right? (Blog - Chicago,Usa)

Like a Frencher Tom Waits.
Raunchy and bluesy and magnifique.

A Sea Of Tears Yet To Be Cried... (Blog)

Rev. Tom Frost is.. well.. different. But in this case different is a GOOD thing. It's as if Dick Valentine (from Electric Six) and Tom Waits were merged into one person and decided to do a bunch of old-timey covers.

Sleepy Talk (Blog - Washington,Usa)

What it really sounds like is something that would come from a dusty old 45, full of burly, southern rhythm and blues. His latest release, South of Hell, France, rocks like a young, belligerent and drunk Jerry Lee Lewis. The album is chock full of covers (including songs from Waits and Cash) and shows just how dedicated he is to American roots music.

Locus St (Blog - Usa)

The Rev. Tom Frost is likely well known to anyone who regularly visits MP3 blogs--he runs the essential Spread the Good Word. Apart from being a great guy and having excellent taste, he's also a fine musician--France's answer to Tom Waits and Lux Interior.

Art-Rock (Blog - France)

Le Révérend Frost est un grand malade. Parce que s’approprier le répertoire blues, rock, country, gospel quand on est un jeune français blanc, faut être limite suicidaire(...) Complètement à contre-courant, le Révérend reprend de sa voix éraillée, puissante et rageuse, de bons vieux blues.
Un grand malade, vous dis-je.

Bonus - 'Spread The Good Word !' Review

Reverend Dan, LA Weekly

Curated by one Reverend Frost, this blog explores the roots of rock with a religious ferver that would make Lux & Ivy proud, with stellar examples of primitive country, gospel and raw early rock & roll. This is where I finally heard the electric gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharp (outside of her who-the-hell-was-that moment in the movie Amelie).