Watermelon Slim

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Black Water 00:00 Tools
Get Out of My Life Woman 00:00 Tools
Blue Freightliner 00:00 Tools
The Wheel Man 00:00 Tools
Smokestack Lightning 00:00 Tools
I've Got News 00:00 Tools
Good Old Boys Never Change 00:00 Tools
Blues for Howard 00:00 Tools
Truck Drivin' Songs 02:47 Tools
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life 00:00 Tools
Wreck On The Highway 00:00 Tools
The Way I Am 00:00 Tools
If There Is Any Heaven 00:00 Tools
America's Wives 00:00 Tools
You See Me Like I See You 00:00 Tools
Should Have Done More 00:00 Tools
Drinking & Driving 00:00 Tools
Tight Fittin' Jeans 00:00 Tools
18, 18 Wheeler 00:00 Tools
The Last Blues 00:00 Tools
Please Take This Cup 00:00 Tools
Truck Drivin' Buddy 00:00 Tools
Skinny Women and Fat Cigars 00:00 Tools
It's Never Too Hard To Be Humble 00:00 Tools
Peaches 00:00 Tools
He Went To Paris 00:00 Tools
Newspaper Reporter 00:00 Tools
Truck Driving Mama 00:00 Tools
I Appreciate That 00:00 Tools
Got Love If You Want It 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Bell 00:00 Tools
Fast Eddie 00:00 Tools
300 Miles 00:00 Tools
You're the One I Need 00:00 Tools
Judge Harsh Blues 00:00 Tools
No Way To Reach Nirvana 00:00 Tools
Red White & Blues 00:00 Tools
Letter to Stoney 00:00 Tools
Let It Be In Memphis 00:00 Tools
Friends On The Porch 00:00 Tools
Cowboys Are Common As Sin 00:00 Tools
Rattlesnake 00:00 Tools
Caterpillar Whine (Long Line Skinner) 00:00 Tools
Mean Streets 00:00 Tools
Oklahoma Blues 00:00 Tools
Dumpster Blues 00:00 Tools
End of the Line 00:00 Tools
And So Our Song Ends 00:00 Tools
Devil's Cadillac 00:00 Tools
Living With A Lie 00:00 Tools
Cruisin 00:00 Tools
Who's Gonna Pay 00:00 Tools
Call My Job 00:00 Tools
Soft Lights and Hard Country Music 00:00 Tools
Post-modern blues 00:00 Tools
I Know One 00:00 Tools
They Call Me Watermelon Slim 00:00 Tools
Stud Poker 00:00 Tools
I Don't Care No More 00:00 Tools
I Got A Problem 00:00 Tools
Cynical Old Bastard 00:00 Tools
Two Trains Running 00:00 Tools
Archetypal Blues No. 2 00:00 Tools
Sawmill Holler 00:00 Tools
Immortal 00:00 Tools
She Makes Me Earn My Money 00:00 Tools
Take Off You Masks 00:00 Tools
Too Old Is Getting Younger All the Time 00:00 Tools
Highway 61 04:14 Tools
Truck Holler #1 00:00 Tools
Into the Sunset 00:00 Tools
Shed My Blood In Mississippi 00:00 Tools
Scalemaster Blues 00:00 Tools
Folding Money Blues 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Down On Me 00:00 Tools
Bubba's Blues 00:00 Tools
Bad Sinner 00:00 Tools
The Bloody Burmese Blues 00:00 Tools
WWW 00:00 Tools
St. Peter's Ledger 00:00 Tools
Pickup My Guidon 00:00 Tools
Got My Will Made Out 00:00 Tools
Possum Hand 00:00 Tools
Archetypal Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Bridgebuilder 00:00 Tools
And When I Die 00:00 Tools
Truck Holler #2 00:00 Tools
Dad in the Distance 00:00 Tools
This Traveling Life 00:00 Tools
Tax Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Juke Joint Woman 00:00 Tools
Gearzy's Boogie 00:00 Tools
Ash Tray 00:00 Tools
Caterpillar Whine 00:00 Tools
Frisco Line 00:00 Tools
Gyspy Woman 00:00 Tools
CABBAGETOWN 00:00 Tools
TOO MUCH ALCOHOL 00:00 Tools
I've Got a Toothache 00:00 Tools
Hard Labor 00:00 Tools
Check Writing Woman 00:00 Tools
Max The Baseball Clown 00:00 Tools
Wolf Cry 00:00 Tools
Wbcn 00:00 Tools
Mack Truck 00:00 Tools
The Whaler's Battle Cry 00:00 Tools
NORTHERN BLUES 00:00 Tools
Eau De Boue 00:00 Tools
ME AND MY WOMAN 00:00 Tools
That Ole 1-4-5 00:00 Tools
Charlottesville (Blues for My Nation) 00:00 Tools
Barrett's Privateers 00:00 Tools
You’re Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond 00:00 Tools
Let It Be Memphis 00:00 Tools
Winners Of Us All 00:00 Tools
DARK GENIUS 00:00 Tools
61 Highway Blues 00:00 Tools
Mni Wiconi - The Water Song 00:00 Tools
Holler # 4 00:00 Tools
Halloween Mama 00:00 Tools
The Wheel Man-(w Magic Slim) 00:00 Tools
Immortal, by Watermelon Slim 00:00 Tools
Trashy Trashmen (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Watermelon Slim - Caterpillar Whine 00:00 Tools
You're going to need somebody on your bond 00:00 Tools
Good Ole Boys Never Change 00:00 Tools
Trashy Trashmen 00:00 Tools
Frisco Lane 00:00 Tools
Trashy Trashman (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Frisco Lint 00:00 Tools
Last Blues 00:00 Tools
Wheeler 00:00 Tools
Trashy Trashmen [*] 00:00 Tools
The Whaler's Battle Cry - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Trucking Blues 00:00 Tools
Truck Holler (No.1) 00:00 Tools
Trashy Trashman - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Vigilante Man 00:00 Tools
W W W 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Night 00:00 Tools
I M A LITTLE FISH 00:00 Tools
Draft Board Blues 00:00 Tools
Trashy Trashman 00:00 Tools
Max the Baseball Crown 00:00 Tools
Truck Holler (No.2) 00:00 Tools
Whaler's Battle Cry [*] 00:00 Tools
Bloody Burmese Blues 00:00 Tools
Scratch my back 00:00 Tools
Trucking Class 00:00 Tools
Northwest Passage 00:00 Tools
Dumpster Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
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Bill Homans, a.k.a "Watermelon Slim", has a storied past from which he draws experience and fodder for the fourteen tracks on the new Watermelon Slim & The Workers CD. The record is Slim's third in four years and his debut release for Toronto-based NorthernBlues Records, where it's the latest in a string of critically acclaimed projects by artists such as Otis Taylor, David Jacobs-Strain, Janiva Magness and others. Despite playing his first paid gig at 18 and spending more than 30 plus years as a musician, it was only recently Bill 'Watermelon Slim' Homans manifested his life pursuit. With the 2003 release of his critically acclaimed CD, Up Close and Personal, Watermelon Slim has become officially recognized as a seasoned newcomer and one of the most exciting and legitimate contemporary blues artist with accolades that include a 2005 W.C. Handy Nomination for Best New Artist Debut. Watermelon Slim and his band The Workers are now exclusively represented by the agency representing Walter Trout, Tishamingo, Tinsley Ellis, John Lee Hooker, Jr., Kenny Neal, and others. In 2006 Slim launches into the next phase of his musical career with a new record, new label, new booking agent, and solid reputation, recognition and buzz preceding him. And although it seems overnight, it's been a long time coming. While serving in Vietnam and laid up in an Army hospital Slim taught himself left-handed backward slide guitar using a $5 balsawood guitar using his Zippo lighter as the slide. Officially Homans first appeared on the music scene in the early 1970s as the only Vietnam veteran to record a full length LP album during the Vietnam War. It was a 1973 protest-tinged "underground" release entitled Merry Airbrakes, recorded and produced in Boston. In subsequent years, original material from that record was reissued and performed by anti-establishment icons such as Country Joe McDonald. Notwithstanding some watermelon farming and academic success in the 1980s, Slim stroked his itinerant side and turned to truck driving. After 12 years or so of gear-jamming, and with a family to support, Slim tried again to re-invent himself, earning a masters degree in History, and high school teaching endorsements, at Oklahoma State University. However, four days after achieving his MA, with tuition loans mounting, Slim went back to trucking, hauling industrial waste for thankless bosses at hourly wages, all the while his id yearning for release of the musician inside. After an intermittently successful musical career that included playing with top blues artists like friend and ex-roommate Henry 'Sunflower' Vestine of Canned Heat, his dear fishing buddy, seminal Chicago blues harp player 'Earring George' Mayweather, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, the late John Lee Hooker, top-gun Boston bluesman Chris Stovall Brown, and in Paris with expatriate New Orleans barrel-house piano player Champion Jack Dupree, in 2002 Slim suffered a near fatal heart attack. His brush with death gave him a new perspective on mortality, direction and life ambitions. He says, "Everything I do now has a sharper pleasure to it. I've lived a fuller life than most people could in two. If I go now, I've got a good education, I've lived on three continents, and I've played music with a bunch of immortal blues players,. I've seen an awful lot and I've done an awful lot." With a new determination Slim cut the 2002 release Big Shoes to Fill as a calling card and his official intro into the blues genre. On the days he wasn't trucking, he traveled as far and wide as possible to perform. His southern-style, blue-collar approach to the blues met with resounding reaction from newfound fans, critics, promoters and the grass roots blues scene in venues as far away from Oklahoma as San Francisco and New York City. Slim had finally found his calling. In late 2003 Slim finished recording the critically acclaimed Up Close & Personal, and the blues community officially recognized him as one of the best contemporary international blues artists with a nomination for a 2005 W.C. Handy Award for Best New Artist Debut and charted as the #1 Southern Blues CD of the Year from Real Blues Magazine. At 56 Slim finds himself chasing his dreams with a healthy heart, an impassioned fan base, and the new record deal that came and found him Slim's humility shows when he talks about his current band members, veteran Oklahoma road warriors who have been touring with him for the past two years. He says, "The band I'm playing with is largely responsible for my recent success. They're the reason I'm getting anywhere 'cause they help people take me seriously. We have recorded this new record as a representation of the full band's live performance, hence the band's name in the CD title." With this release Slim aims to create a comparable reputation to that he's created in the United Kingdom on tour in 2004 and 2005. Over the last couple of years he's been impressing festival and club audiences with his musicianship and was featured on the BBC World Service Programme in addition to other national media coverage. Read more on Last.fm. 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