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1197130 | Play | Hard Times | 00:00 Tools | |
1197148 | Play | Black Water | 00:00 Tools | |
88925361 | Play | Get Out of My Life Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
1197151 | Play | Blue Freightliner | 00:00 Tools | |
1197146 | Play | The Wheel Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1197150 | Play | Smokestack Lightning | 00:00 Tools | |
1197159 | Play | I've Got News | 00:00 Tools | |
1197132 | Play | Good Old Boys Never Change | 00:00 Tools | |
1197161 | Play | Blues for Howard | 00:00 Tools | |
1197131 | Play | Truck Drivin' Songs | 02:47 Tools | |
1197149 | Play | Hank Williams You Wrote My Life | 00:00 Tools | |
1197135 | Play | Wreck On The Highway | 00:00 Tools | |
1197147 | Play | The Way I Am | 00:00 Tools | |
1197136 | Play | If There Is Any Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
1197133 | Play | America's Wives | 00:00 Tools | |
1197144 | Play | You See Me Like I See You | 00:00 Tools | |
1197142 | Play | Should Have Done More | 00:00 Tools | |
1197185 | Play | Drinking & Driving | 00:00 Tools | |
1197141 | Play | Tight Fittin' Jeans | 00:00 Tools | |
1197140 | Play | 18, 18 Wheeler | 00:00 Tools | |
1197173 | Play | The Last Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197145 | Play | Please Take This Cup | 00:00 Tools | |
1197220 | Play | Truck Drivin' Buddy | 00:00 Tools | |
1197143 | Play | Skinny Women and Fat Cigars | 00:00 Tools | |
1197139 | Play | It's Never Too Hard To Be Humble | 00:00 Tools | |
1197184 | Play | Peaches | 00:00 Tools | |
1197138 | Play | He Went To Paris | 00:00 Tools | |
1197200 | Play | Newspaper Reporter | 00:00 Tools | |
1197172 | Play | Truck Driving Mama | 00:00 Tools | |
1197134 | Play | I Appreciate That | 00:00 Tools | |
1197168 | Play | Got Love If You Want It | 00:00 Tools | |
1197196 | Play | Jimmy Bell | 00:00 Tools | |
1197202 | Play | Fast Eddie | 00:00 Tools | |
1197176 | Play | 300 Miles | 00:00 Tools | |
1197180 | Play | You're the One I Need | 00:00 Tools | |
1197203 | Play | Judge Harsh Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197154 | Play | No Way To Reach Nirvana | 00:00 Tools | |
1197257 | Play | Red White & Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197160 | Play | Letter to Stoney | 00:00 Tools | |
1197155 | Play | Let It Be In Memphis | 00:00 Tools | |
1197166 | Play | Friends On The Porch | 00:00 Tools | |
1197158 | Play | Cowboys Are Common As Sin | 00:00 Tools | |
1197181 | Play | Rattlesnake | 00:00 Tools | |
1197177 | Play | Caterpillar Whine (Long Line Skinner) | 00:00 Tools | |
1197209 | Play | Mean Streets | 00:00 Tools | |
1197162 | Play | Oklahoma Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197205 | Play | Dumpster Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197153 | Play | End of the Line | 00:00 Tools | |
1197164 | Play | And So Our Song Ends | 00:00 Tools | |
1197201 | Play | Devil's Cadillac | 00:00 Tools | |
1197152 | Play | Living With A Lie | 00:00 Tools | |
1197264 | Play | Cruisin | 00:00 Tools | |
1197221 | Play | Who's Gonna Pay | 00:00 Tools | |
1197193 | Play | Call My Job | 00:00 Tools | |
1197157 | Play | Soft Lights and Hard Country Music | 00:00 Tools | |
88925362 | Play | Post-modern blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197192 | Play | I Know One | 00:00 Tools | |
1197163 | Play | They Call Me Watermelon Slim | 00:00 Tools | |
1197179 | Play | Stud Poker | 00:00 Tools | |
1197217 | Play | I Don't Care No More | 00:00 Tools | |
1197169 | Play | I Got A Problem | 00:00 Tools | |
1197188 | Play | Cynical Old Bastard | 00:00 Tools | |
1197191 | Play | Two Trains Running | 00:00 Tools | |
1197174 | Play | Archetypal Blues No. 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
1197189 | Play | Sawmill Holler | 00:00 Tools | |
1197156 | Play | Immortal | 00:00 Tools | |
1197170 | Play | She Makes Me Earn My Money | 00:00 Tools | |
1197245 | Play | Take Off You Masks | 00:00 Tools | |
1197199 | Play | Too Old Is Getting Younger All the Time | 00:00 Tools | |
1197208 | Play | Highway 61 | 04:14 Tools | |
1197214 | Play | Truck Holler #1 | 00:00 Tools | |
1197198 | Play | Into the Sunset | 00:00 Tools | |
1197165 | Play | Shed My Blood In Mississippi | 00:00 Tools | |
1197212 | Play | Scalemaster Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197260 | Play | Folding Money Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197206 | Play | Everybody's Down On Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1197182 | Play | Bubba's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197211 | Play | Bad Sinner | 00:00 Tools | |
1197204 | Play | The Bloody Burmese Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197183 | Play | WWW | 00:00 Tools | |
88925363 | Play | St. Peter's Ledger | 00:00 Tools | |
76729952 | Play | Pickup My Guidon | 00:00 Tools | |
1197231 | Play | Got My Will Made Out | 00:00 Tools | |
1197222 | Play | Possum Hand | 00:00 Tools | |
1197226 | Play | Archetypal Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197190 | Play | Baby Please Don't Go | 00:00 Tools | |
1197197 | Play | Bridgebuilder | 00:00 Tools | |
1197187 | Play | And When I Die | 00:00 Tools | |
1197224 | Play | Truck Holler #2 | 00:00 Tools | |
1197207 | Play | Dad in the Distance | 00:00 Tools | |
1197194 | Play | This Traveling Life | 00:00 Tools | |
88925364 | Play | Tax Man Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1197227 | Play | Juke Joint Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
1197195 | Play | Gearzy's Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
1197213 | Play | Ash Tray | 00:00 Tools | |
1197215 | Play | Caterpillar Whine | 00:00 Tools | |
1197225 | Play | Frisco Line | 00:00 Tools | |
88925365 | Play | Gyspy Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
76729953 | Play | CABBAGETOWN | 00:00 Tools | |
88925366 | Play | TOO MUCH ALCOHOL | 00:00 Tools | |
1197219 | Play | I've Got a Toothache | 00:00 Tools | |
1197229 | Play | Hard Labor | 00:00 Tools | |
1197228 | Play | Check Writing Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
1197210 | Play | Max The Baseball Clown | 00:00 Tools | |
76729956 | Play | Wolf Cry | 00:00 Tools | |
88925367 | Play | Wbcn | 00:00 Tools | |
1197253 | Play | Mack Truck | 00:00 Tools | |
47438764 | Play | The Whaler's Battle Cry | 00:00 Tools | |
86827402 | Play | NORTHERN BLUES | 00:00 Tools | |
1197230 | Play | Eau De Boue | 00:00 Tools | |
88925368 | Play | ME AND MY WOMAN | 00:00 Tools | |
88925369 | Play | That Ole 1-4-5 | 00:00 Tools | |
88925370 | Play | Charlottesville (Blues for My Nation) | 00:00 Tools | |
76729957 | Play | Barrett's Privateers | 00:00 Tools | |
76729958 | Play | You’re Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond | 00:00 Tools | |
1197233 | Play | Let It Be Memphis | 00:00 Tools | |
88925371 | Play | Winners Of Us All | 00:00 Tools | |
76729959 | Play | DARK GENIUS | 00:00 Tools | |
88925372 | Play | 61 Highway Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
88925373 | Play | Mni Wiconi - The Water Song | 00:00 Tools | |
88925374 | Play | Holler # 4 | 00:00 Tools | |
88925375 | Play | Halloween Mama | 00:00 Tools | |
1197256 | Play | The Wheel Man-(w Magic Slim) | 00:00 Tools | |
1197234 | Play | Immortal, by Watermelon Slim | 00:00 Tools | |
47438765 | Play | Trashy Trashmen (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
47438766 | Play | Watermelon Slim - Caterpillar Whine | 00:00 Tools | |
88925376 | Play | You're going to need somebody on your bond | 00:00 Tools | |
47438767 | Play | Good Ole Boys Never Change | 00:00 Tools | |
1197270 | Play | Trashy Trashmen | 00:00 Tools | |
1197251 | Play | Frisco Lane | 00:00 Tools | |
1197232 | Play | Trashy Trashman (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
47438768 | Play | Frisco Lint | 00:00 Tools | |
1197248 | Play | Last Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47438770 | Play | Wheeler | 00:00 Tools | |
47438769 | Play | Trashy Trashmen [*] | 00:00 Tools | |
1197223 | Play | The Whaler's Battle Cry - Bonus Track | 00:00 Tools | |
76729962 | Play | Trucking Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47438771 | Play | Truck Holler (No.1) | 00:00 Tools | |
1197269 | Play | Trashy Trashman - Bonus Track | 00:00 Tools | |
47438772 | Play | Vigilante Man | 00:00 Tools | |
47438773 | Play | W W W | 00:00 Tools | |
86827405 | Play | Tomorrow Night | 00:00 Tools | |
86827404 | Play | I M A LITTLE FISH | 00:00 Tools | |
47438777 | Play | Draft Board Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47438774 | Play | Trashy Trashman | 00:00 Tools | |
1197272 | Play | Max the Baseball Crown | 00:00 Tools | |
47438775 | Play | Truck Holler (No.2) | 00:00 Tools | |
47438779 | Play | Whaler's Battle Cry [*] | 00:00 Tools | |
47438776 | Play | Bloody Burmese Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86827406 | Play | Scratch my back | 00:00 Tools | |
86827407 | Play | Trucking Class | 00:00 Tools | |
86827408 | Play | Northwest Passage | 00:00 Tools | |
47438778 | Play | Dumpster Blues (Live) | 00:00 Tools |
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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