Music CD - Watermelon Slim & the Workers: Watermelon Slim and the Workers

	Music CD: Watermelon Slim and the Workers Artist: Watermelon Slim & the Workers List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $10.31 Your Save: $ 5.67 ( 35% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Northern Blues
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Tracks: 1. Hard Times 2. Dumpster Blues 3. Baby Please Don't Go 4. Devil's Cadillac 5. Check Writing Woman 6. Possum Hand 7. Frisco Line 8. Ash Tray 9. Mack Truck 10. Bad Sinner 11. Folding Money Blues 12. Juke Joint Woman 13. Hard Labor 14. Eau De Boue
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0809509003228 Label: Northern Blues Manufacturer: Northern Blues Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Northern Blues Release Date: 2006-02-14 Studio: Northern Blues
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Slim and the Workers, Are the Blues! Comment: Their music transcends all classes and ages. This was our first Watermelon Slim CD but it won't be our last. We saw him last night on stage, don't miss an opportunity to see and hear him in person when you have the chance. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent CD by an excellent band Comment: I saw these guys live at Legends on a field trip to Chicago...and I was blown away. I'm not your typical blues fan, in fact, I never owned a blues album before this one (I'm more of a metal-head). If you are new to the genre or trying to find something fresh in the blues world, then check out this cd. Some of my personal favorite songs are "Foldin' Money Blues", "Baby Please Don't Go", and "Bad Sinner". You won't be disappointed with anything on the CD. Watermelon Slim and the Workers really deliver the goods here. Customer Rating: Summary: Blues Album of the Year Comment: Simply put: This is the best blues album I've heard in years. Listen to the sound-clips here and check out the free videos on his website. I first heard of Watermelon Slim from hearing/seeing the video of him doing Howlin Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" on his website (somebody recommended I check it out). I was so blown away by what I heard that I immediately got this disc. Very few albums blow me away these days like this one. Amazing blues! Customer Rating: Summary: The Real Deal Comment: Stunning slide work, great writing and his band rocks... Okie and proud of it, he writes about what he knows, from jammin' gears and haulin' garbage to history, woman trouble and an ecletic list of other topics. Hard to pigeonhole as just a blues man, his music is totally unpretentious and fresh sounding. He just doesn't sound quite like anybody else. What a find! Customer Rating: Summary: A fresh-sounding take on the blues Comment: Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans sings about misery and treachery, but instead of just going to the well and reroasting the same blues chestnuts he gives the genre a good, swift kick in the rear. "Watermelon Slim and the Workers" is the kind of CD that one should play to a group of friends assembled for a game or cards or dice on the porch. Nobody will know what is playing, but everybody will like this fresh-sounding take on the blues. Mr. Homans penned most of the tracks here, and he delivers his musical tales in a howl that might raise the hackles on more than a few dogs. His slide and harp playing are on the money, and the Workers, the excellent trio who accompany him, lend plenty of feisty energy to this blues-laden outing. Instead of over-the-top guitar or gutbucket baying, Watermelon Slim and the Workers features crisp arrangements paired with laconic insights instilling new life into a sometimes tired genre. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans sings like a baying basset, drawing the tongue-in-cheek misery of tunes like "Hard Times" and "Check Writing Woman" out in long, dry-mouthed syllables. But it's the slide guitar on this, his third album, that really howls, whether he's playing smooth and shimmery on his original take on the Robert Johnson myth "Devil's Cadillac" or drawing on the ghost of Elmore James on "Hard Labor." That blend of humor--always delivered from a skewed autobiographical perspective--and raw-boned backwoods virtuosity makes this one of the year's more colorful blues albums and should elevate Slim from the genre's underground. And while his backing trio, the Workers, are a crack outfit whose spare accompaniment beautifully frames Slim's laconic musings, the solo "Folding Money Blues"--just Slim moaning along with his acoustic guitar--is a high point, with Slim telling his complaints to all the "dead presidents." He deserves our ears, too. --Ted Drozdowski