The Boston Globe
Only a select few groups can legitimately cite both Iron Maiden and Merle Haggard as primary influences, and this Boston band is one of them. In arrangements both ingenious and uproarious, Jim and his Cows take heavy metal classics like Dio’s “The Last in Line’’ and Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion’’ and recast them as authentic country songs. Yeehaw and horns up dude!

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The Boston Phoenix
Boston’s Slim Jim and the Mad Cows sound like a band that just crawled out of the Ryman Auditorium dumpster. Their repertoire — drawn entirely from the classic metal songbook — includes a straight-outta-Bakersfield version of GNR’s "Night Train" and an "Ace of Spades" that’s way more Waylon than Lemme. They’ll be halfway through one of those Johnny Cash talking-history songs about Indians before you realize it’s Maiden’s "Run to the Hills."

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The Improper Bostonian
Slim Jim & the Mad Cows-
"Boston's Best Cover Band"
Slim Jim and the Mad Cows' technique of taking metal anthems by the likes of Motorhead, Judas Priest and, yes, even the mighty Led Zeppelin, and turning them into rip-roaring country-style rockers, makes for some damn good live entertainment.
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The Boston Metro
Like country? Like metal? Slim Jim and the Mad Cows are your new favorite band.
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The Boston Herald
The hootenanny rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song,'' flavored with a sweetly sung backup chorus of C.W. McCall's white-trash classic "Convoy,'' is genius.
-Robin Vaughan
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The Boston Phoenix
... a version of "Breakin the Law" that'll put tears in your beer.
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Whats Up Magazine
Slim Jim and the Mad Cows are sure to make even the most dedicated metalhead crack a smile.