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Watermelon Slim & The Workers
(US)
er første band som er klar for Skånevik Bluesfestival 2009. I 2008
vant
dei toBlues Music Award for beste CD og beste Bluesband. Litt av
ein prestasjon! Watermelon Slim og hans band er inkarnasjonen av dei djupaste og
mest opprinnelege røtene i amerikansk musikk. Dei vil gje deg ei
stor oppleving i Skånevik til sommaren!
Han vart fødd i Boston og vaks opp in Nord Carolina. Bill
“Watermelon Slim” Homans har spelt og sunge blues over heile USA, i
Europa og i Søraust Asia. Han har spelt med store stjerner som
Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray og John Lee Hooker. I Frankrike har han
spelt saman med Jack Dupree. Saman med Michael Newberry på trommer,
Ronnie Mack på gitar og Cliff Belcher på bass er Watermelon Slim &
The Workers eit av dei mest etterspurte blues band i dag. Dei lagar
verkeleg show som vert snakka lenge om.
Frå deira
biografi At
least once in every man's life everything seems to come together
magically. When the road leading to such times is long and grueling,
the zenith becomes exponentially more rewarding. Bill Homans a.k.a.
Watermelon Slim is the extraordinary wheel man behind this
redemption story road trip.
In December 2006 Watermelon Slim garnered a record-tying six
2007 Blues Music Award nominations for Artist, Entertainer, Album,
Band, Song, and Traditional Album of the Year. Only the likes of B.B.
King, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray have ever landed six. His 2006
self-titled release was ranked #1 in MOJO Magazine's 2006 Top Blues
CDs, won the 2006 Independent Music Award for Blues Album of the
Year, hit #1 on the Living Blues Radio Chart, debuted at #13 on the
Billboard Blues Radio Chart ahead of both Robert Cray and North
Mississippi Allstars, and won the Blues Critic Award for 2006 Album
of the Year.
In April, 2007 Watermelon Slim and The Workers released The
Wheel Man, his second for NorthernBlues Music and his fourth album
in five years. Jerry Wexler, a huge Watermelon Slim fan after
hearing Slim's 2005 self-titled release, eagerly offered to write
the liner notes upon listening to early tracks saying Slim "is a
one-of-a-kind pickin' 'n'n singing Okie dynamo." The CD hit #1 on
the Living Blues Radio Charts, #2 on the Roots Music Blues Charts
and debuted in the Top 10 in Billboard's Blues charts.
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