Music CD - Watermelon Slim and the Workers: The Wheel Man

	Music CD: The Wheel Man Artist: Watermelon Slim and the Workers List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $11.03 Your Save: $ 3.96 ( 26% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: NorthernBlues Music
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Tracks: 1. The Wheel Man 2. I've Got News 3. Black Water 4. Jimmy Bell 5. Newspaper Reporter 6. Drinking & Driving 7. Fast Eddie 8. Sawmill Holler 9. Truck Driving Mama 10. I Know One 11. Got Love If You Want It 12. Rattlesnake 13. Peaches 14. Judge Harsh Blues
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0809509003822 Label: NorthernBlues Music Manufacturer: NorthernBlues Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: NorthernBlues Music Release Date: 2007-04-17 Studio: NorthernBlues Music
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The Wheel Man Comment: Never heard of him. Now I am hooked. Outstanding blues artist..... Pick this up if you want the real thing! Customer Rating: Summary: A gem Comment: We discovered Watermelon Slim serendipitously at a live performance. (Slim's a former newspaper reporter -- I wonder if he'd laugh at a 6-syllable word used to describe him.) He's become one of my household's favorite blues artists. We love _Wheel Man_ for Slim's outstanding storytelling as well as his phenomenal playing and singing. Slim can evoke a scene vivid enough for film with just a few words in his signature drawl. While Slim's slide guitar work is some of the best out there in any genre, "Jimmy Bell" -- just Slim singing and playing harmonica -- is one of this album's stars. A fantastic collection of songs from an artist who deserves far more recognition. Customer Rating: Summary: Disappointed Comment: I listen to a fair amount of blues and was excited about this album based on the positive reviews. I don't like it, however. He sings with a lisp and the lyrics often seem off-kilter with the band. Perhaps this is just his style, but I'm not digging it. He does sound his best when singing the tunes minus the band. Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic Comment: The disc came earlier than I anticipated and was in perfect shape. For the price, it was a lot more than I expected. I'll definitely buy from them again. Customer Rating: Summary: Slim Slams Another "Home Run" Comment: Watermelon Slim's 2nd album for the Canadian label, NorthernBlues Music is called "The Wheel Man", and is every bit as fresh and juicy as his hugely successful intitial 2006 self-titled "Watermelon Slim & The Workers" album. Slim's version of the Blues is just a little different, and therein lies the "breath of fresh air" that has him and the boys fast becoming "Blues festival favorites" all over the country this Summer. You can tell that Slim is having fun with the music, and that fun easily infects the crowd. If you haven't heard Watermelon Slim & The Workers, buy this album; as a matter of fact, buy BOTH of his albums. If you have heard his first album, I shouldn't need to tell you that this is more of the same refreshing stuff. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This Oklahoma City singer and slide guitarist is at the creative apex of traditional blues. He took the roundabout route to get there--fighting in the jungles of Vietnam, officiating at funerals, and working as a trucker, forklift operator, saw miller, firewood salesman, and collection agent until a near-fatal heart attack compelled him to find his calling as a bandleader in 2002. Slim's fourth album since then is even sharper than 2006's critically heralded breakthrough Watermelon Slim & the Workers. It's a devil's playground for his weathered-oak voice and Delta-fueled six-stringing, full of stories of crime ("The Wheel Man"), lust ("Peaches"), and sin ("Jimmy Bell"). For Slim, that's par for the course, but this time he's drafted Chicago blues stalwart Magic Slim for a terse, burnished solo and vocal turns on the title tune and piano great David Maxwell to make three other numbers sparkle and jump. Yet some of the most compelling songs, like the howling a cappella "Jimmy Bell" and the slide 'n' vocal turn "Judge Harsh Blues" are Watermelon Slim alone. And that's enough. His sound and his soul are packed with true, natural grit. --Ted Drozdowski