Watermelon Slim &\; the Truckers
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\n\n7-23-2022
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\n"\;The most exciting and authentic blues performer I'\;ve heard in years."\; \;A.W.\, Paste Magazine
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\nAn ever-expanding career of ramshackle grandeur. \;Bill "\;Watermelon Slim"\; Homans \;has built a remarkable reputation with his raw\, impassioned intensity. \;HARP Magazine \;wrote "\;From sizzling slide guitar...to nitty-gritty harp blowing...to a gruff\, resonating Okie twang\, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of life\, a bottle of hooch in his pocket\, and the Bible on the passenger seat."\; \;Paste Magazine \;writes "\;He'\;s one hell of a bottleneck guitarist\, and he'\;s got that cry in his voice that only the greatest singers in the genre have had before him."\; \;
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\nThe industry agrees on all fronts. Watermelon Slim &\; The Truckers have garnered \;17 Blues Music Award nominations \;in four years including a record-tying six in both 2007 &\; 2008. Only the likes of B.B. King\, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray have landed six in a year and Slim is the only blues artist in history with twelve in two consecutive years. In Spring 2009 he was the cover story of \;Blues Revue magazine.
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\nSlim \;taught himself\, while laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed\, upside-down left-handed slide guitar on a $5 balsawood model using a triangle pick cut from a rusty coffee can top and his Army issued Zippo lighter as the slide. He has been a truck driver\, forklift operator\, sawmiller (where he lost a partial finger)\, firewood salesman\, collection agent\, funeral officiator and at times a small time criminal. Due to aforementioned criminality\, Slim was forced to flee Boston where he had played peace rallies\, sit-ins and rabbleroused musically with the likes of Bonnie Raitt. Recently Raitt singled out Slim to her audience as a living blues legend during a summer 2009 performance. From Boston\, Slim landed in his current home state of Oklahoma farming watermelons - hence his stage name. Somewhere in those decades since Vietnam Slim completed two undergrad and a master'\;s degree\, started a family\, painted art and joined Mensa\, the social networking group reserved for members with certified genius IQs. When he'\;s not on tour Slim loves to fish and garden.
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\nIf you like Blues - Watermelon Slim is the real deal.
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\n2x Winner: 2008 Blues Music Award Band of the Year and Album of the Year
\n2x Winner: 2006 &\; 2007 MOJO Magazine'\;s #1 Blues Album of the Year Winner:
\n6th Annual Independent Music Awards Blues Album of the Year \;
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\n \; \; \;VIDEO 1 \; \; \; \; \; \;VIDEO 2
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\n"\;The most exciting and authentic blues performer I'\;ve heard in years."\; \;A.W.\, Paste Magazine
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\nAn ever-expanding career of ramshackle grandeur. \;Bill "\;Watermelon Slim"\; Homans \;has built a remarkable reputation with his raw\, impassioned intensity. \;HARP Magazine \;wrote "\;From sizzling slide guitar...to nitty-gritty harp blowing...to a gruff\, resonating Okie twang\, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of life\, a bottle of hooch in his pocket\, and the Bible on the passenger seat."\; \;Paste Magazine \;writes "\;He'\;s one hell of a bottleneck guitarist\, and he'\;s got that cry in his voice that only the greatest singers in the genre have had before him."\; \;
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\nThe industry agrees on all fronts. Watermelon Slim &\; The Truckers have garnered \;17 Blues Music Award nominations \;in four years including a record-tying six in both 2007 &\; 2008. Only the likes of B.B. King\, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray have landed six in a year and Slim is the only blues artist in history with twelve in two consecutive years. In Spring 2009 he was the cover story of \;Blues Revue magazine.
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\nSlim \;taught himself\, while laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed\, upside-down left-handed slide guitar on a $5 balsawood model using a triangle pick cut from a rusty coffee can top and his Army issued Zippo lighter as the slide. He has been a truck driver\, forklift operator\, sawmiller (where he lost a partial finger)\, firewood salesman\, collection agent\, funeral officiator and at times a small time criminal. Due to aforementioned criminality\, Slim was forced to flee Boston where he had played peace rallies\, sit-ins and rabbleroused musically with the likes of Bonnie Raitt. Recently Raitt singled out Slim to her audience as a living blues legend during a summer 2009 performance. From Boston\, Slim landed in his current home state of Oklahoma farming watermelons - hence his stage name. Somewhere in those decades since Vietnam Slim completed two undergrad and a master'\;s degree\, started a family\, painted art and joined Mensa\, the social networking group reserved for members with certified genius IQs. When he'\;s not on tour Slim loves to fish and garden.
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\nIf you like Blues - Watermelon Slim is the real deal.
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\n2x Winner: 2008 Blues Music Award Band of the Year and Album of the Year
\n2x Winner: 2006 &\; 2007 MOJO Magazine'\;s #1 Blues Album of the Year Winner:
\n6th Annual Independent Music Awards Blues Album of the Year \;
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\n \; \; \;VIDEO 1 \; \; \; \; \; \;VIDEO 2