Tag: blues

Channel 19
Introducing former trucker Sean Whiting and his new ‘High Expectations’ album
The first single for the record, too, is available to hear — “Melody” presents an apt extended metaphor for where its songwriter is today in music after a decade and a half behind the wheel. Listen here.
April 11, 2019
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Overdrive Radio
Further dissection of post-ELD mandate crash rates, and the blues of Watermelon Slim
The Overdrive Radio podcast highlighted a recent study around potential safety-sensitive impacts of the ELD mandate. Get more details on it here on Overdrive.
February 8, 2019
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Life
Watch: Bill ‘Watermelon Slim’ Homans, ‘Long Haul Paul’ Marhoefer live from Indiana
Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans recently stopped at the Key Palace Theater on his tour in support of the new "Church of the Blues" record. Read more on Overdrive.
February 7, 2019
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Channel 19
Watermelon Slim tour dates, and a special guest in Indiana Feb. 2
Overdrive’s own “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer joins Slim at the Feb. 2 performance. Also: The long and short on former owner-op and “In the Driver’s Seat” trucking-memoir author Marc Mayfield’s new work of page-turning detective fiction, “On Grove Street.”
January 14, 2019
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Overdrive Extra
Faces of the Road: Bluesman and former trucker Watermelon Slim fails better
Long Haul Paul’s latest in the “Faces of the Road” series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans, out with a new record, “Church of the Blues.” As Slim puts it: “I’ve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.”
December 4, 2018
Preview former trucker Watermelon Slim’s new “Church of the Blues” record via this link.
Overdrive Radio
Preview podcast: Trucker Talent Search 2018
Listen to Overdrive's preview podcast to hear sounds and stories of three of the finalists for Overdrive and Red Eye Radio's 2018 Trucker Talent Search.
August 20, 2018
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: A look back at Watermelon Slim’s trucking blues live in Nashville, Tuscaloosa
Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans in 2010, upon release of his “Escape from the Chicken Coop” record of trucking blues, playing his solo slide at Carol Ann’s in Nashville and at Overdrive HQ in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
March 21, 2015
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Channel 19
Watermelon Slim’s on-the-road ‘Escape From the Chicken Coop’
Clarksdale, Miss., resident, longtime Oklahoman and North Carolina-reared blues musicmaker Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans plays a mean slide guitar. And “I was an above-average harp player,” 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 […]
March 8, 2010
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