Watermelon Slim and the Workers

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Call My Job 00:00 Tools
Blues For Howard 00:00 Tools
Archetypal Blues No. 2 00:00 Tools
Dumpster Blues 00:00 Tools
You're The One I Need 00:00 Tools
Devil's Cadillac 00:00 Tools
And When I Die 00:00 Tools
Bubba's Blues 00:00 Tools
Dad in the Distance 00:00 Tools
The Wheel Man 00:00 Tools
Black Water 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Check Writing Woman 00:00 Tools
Newspaper Reporter 00:00 Tools
Drinking and Driving 00:00 Tools
Juke Joint Woman 00:00 Tools
I've Got News 00:00 Tools
The Bloody Burmese Blues 00:00 Tools
Fast Eddie 00:00 Tools
Possum Hand 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Bell 00:00 Tools
Into the Sunset 00:00 Tools
This Traveling Life 00:00 Tools
Max The Baseball Clown 00:00 Tools
Truck Driving Mama 00:00 Tools
Folding Money Blues 00:00 Tools
Gearzy's Boogie 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Down On Me 00:00 Tools
I've Got a Toothache 00:00 Tools
Got Love if You Want It 00:00 Tools
Frisco Lint 00:00 Tools
Bad Sinner 00:00 Tools
Ash Tray 00:00 Tools
Mack Truck 00:00 Tools
Eau De Boue 00:00 Tools
Hard Labor 00:00 Tools
Peaches 00:00 Tools
I Know One 00:00 Tools
Sawmill Holler 00:00 Tools
Rattlesnake 00:00 Tools
Judge Harsh Blues 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Night 00:00 Tools
Bull Goose Rooster 00:00 Tools
Over The Horizon 00:00 Tools
Vigilante Man 00:00 Tools
I'm A King Bee 00:00 Tools
Prison Walls 00:00 Tools
A Wrench in the Machine 00:00 Tools
Blue Freightliner 00:00 Tools
Scratch My Back 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Whistling Dixie 00:00 Tools
Trucking Class 00:00 Tools
The Wobble 00:00 Tools
Words Are Coming To An End 00:00 Tools
Take My Mother Home 00:00 Tools
Northwest Passage 00:00 Tools
The Foreign Policy Blues 00:00 Tools
Frisco Lane 00:00 Tools
Wreck on the Highway 00:00 Tools
Archetypal Blues No.2 00:00 Tools
The Wheel Man-(w Magic Slim) 00:00 Tools
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life 00:00 Tools
Friends on the Porch 00:00 Tools
Should Have Done More 00:00 Tools
Skinny Women and Fat Cigars 00:00 Tools
America's Wives 00:00 Tools
You See Me Like I See You 00:00 Tools
It's Never Too Hard to be Humble 00:00 Tools
The Way I Am 00:00 Tools
300 Miles 00:00 Tools
18, 18 Wheeler 00:00 Tools
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Truck Drivin' Songs 00:00 Tools
Truck Drivin' Mama 00:00 Tools
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Bill Homans, professionally known as "Watermelon Slim", is an American blues musician. He plays both guitar and harmonica. He is currently signed to NorthernBlues Music, based out of Toronto, Ontario. Homans has been performing since the 1970s and has been linked to several notable blues musicians, including John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Champion Jack Dupree, Bonnie Raitt, "Country" Joe McDonald, and Henry Vestine of Canned Heat. The first recording project to feature Homans was "Merry Airbrakes," an album recorded and released on a small label in 1973 after returning from a tour of duty in Vietnam. Homans had become, after his return home, involved with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Merry Airbrakes album had many songs with odd lyrics reflecting drug use, spiritual exploration, and involvement with the emotional cost of fighting "enemies." The Merry Airbrakes album, originals of which are now highly collectible, has been re-released. His more recent music is rooted in the Mississippi Delta style, as he plays his dobro guitar lap-style with a slide. While typically an acoustic performer, he has been known to occasionally play electric. Recently, he has toured with a supporting band dubbed "the Workers". In 2005, Homans was nominated for the prestigious W. C. Handy Award for "Best New Artist Debut". He and his band have also been nominated for six more Handy Awards for 2006, in a variety of categories, and for a Maple Blues Award from the Toronto Blues Society for the 2006 album Watermelon Slim and the Workers. In early 2007, Homans' Watermelon Slim & The Workers won in The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album. [1] Homans is a graduate of Lenox School for boys, a boarding school in Lenox, MA. Homans has a bachelor's degree in journalism and history from the University of Oregon, and a master's degree in history from Oklahoma State University. He has also served as a member of Mensa International. Before dropping out to enlist in the Vietnam War he had attended Middlebury College. He came back home a fervent anti-war activist, and remains a member and supporter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.