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Tag: Escape From the Chicken Coop
Overdrive Extra
Faces of the Road: Bluesman and former trucker Watermelon Slim fails better
Long Haul Paulâs latest in the âFaces of the Roadâ series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill âWatermelon Slimâ Homans, out with a new record, âChurch of the Blues.â As Slim puts it: âIâve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.â
December 4, 2018
Channel 19
Watermelon Slimâs on-the-road âEscape From the Chicken Coopâ
Clarksdale, Miss., resident, longtime Oklahoman and North Carolina-reared blues musicmaker Bill âWatermelon Slimâ Homans plays a mean slide guitar. And âI was an above-average harp player,â he says of his early years making music, his first record of work-song blues coming out in 1972. But when he hears what young blues players like Craig Lawler and Jason Ricci can [âŚ]
March 8, 2010
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