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Free Download - Watermelon Slim

Due to a high demand for more songs from Watermelon Slim, you can now download a Watermelon Slim song free.
Share these with your friends, but we do ask that you don't sell these downloads. Hope you enjoy the music and please give us feedback on Slim's Blog.
And as always, please stop by and see Watermelon Slim on tour.

Current Download
 Black Water - William Homans (Watermelon Slim) - CD: The Wheel Man, 2007
Black Water (right click for download)





Printed Media

JAMS Magazine - June 2009

Oklahoma Magazine - June 2009

Beat Route - June 2009

Muskogee Phoenix - June 2009

Patriot Ledger - June 2009

Pantagraph - April 2009

Nekkersdal - April 2009

Blues Review Cover - April 2009

Blues Review Article - April 2009

SWERVE - December 2008

Review from France - December 2008

BRT (Turkey) - November 2008

Story from Moscow - November 2008

Story from Turkey - November 2008

Suite 101 - October 2008

Jazz & Blues Report - October 2008

German Critic Award - October 2008

Blues Again - Foreign Review - October 2008

No Paid Holidays - October 2008

Barrel House Blues - September 2008

Blues Society - September 2008

French Review of Slim - September 2008

No Paid Holidays - September 2008

Patriot Ledger - August 2008

Story on Slim - August 2008

Pop Matters - August 2008

The Morning Call - August 2008

Greenman Review - July 2008

Blurt Online - July 2008

Smoky Mountain News - July 2008

Paste Magazine - July 2008

Boston Blues - July 2008

Sun Times - July 2008

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews - July 2008

Blues Bytes - July 2008

Necastle Chronicle - July 2008

Crawdaddy! Magazine - June 2008

MoBlues - June 2008

Uptown - June 2008

Canadian Blues - June 2008

Vue Weekly - June 2008

Crawdaddy Magazine - June 2008

Blog Critics - June 2008

Confessions of a Fanboy CD Review - June 2008

allmusic CD Review - June 2008

Topeka Capital - Journal - June 2008

Missouri Blues Society CD Review - June 2008

Music City Blues - June 2008

Blog Critics - June 2008

Columbus Dispatch - June 2008

Nashville City Paper CD Review - June 2008

Blues Bytes CD Review - June 2008

Blog Critics - May 2008

Omaha Weekly Reader - May 2008

The ocregister - May 2008

Official Press Release - May 2008

The Reader - April 2008

Watermelon Review - April 2008
Cincy Groove - March 2008
Norman Transcript - January 2008




Audio Interviews

House of Blues Interview (full interview)
House of Blues Interview from March 2006.

Chapters

  1. Dan Akroyd introduces Watermelon Slim. Song clip: Hard Times 1:15
  2. Learning guitar in a Vietnam hospital bed. 2:04
  3. Truck driving and drinking diesel fuel vs. whiskey. Song Clip: Dumpster Blues 1:40
  4. Song clip: Devil's Cadillac 0:34
  5. Slim discusses The Delta. 1:20
  6. The name, story and performances of Watermelon Slim. Song clip: Checkwriting Woman 2:34
  7. Soldier, trucker, farmer, teacher, and Bluesman. Who's uglier - Slim or Elvin Bishop? 0:54
  8. Close. Song Clip: Ash Tray 1:48


XM Radio Blues Wax Interview (full interview)
XM Radio Blues Wax Interview from November 2004.

Chapters

  1. Intro 0:16
  2. Blues First 1:00
  3. Jimmy Bell 3:34
  4. Influences 2:08
  5. Why Blues 2:53
  6. OK Blues 1:17

Podcast - Beardo interviews Slim    Warning it may take a few minutes to load this mp3 file!
Provided by thebeardo@gmail.com

Video Clips

Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
From the Festival on June 30, 2007

Watermelon Slim - Truck Driving Mama - Live
Truck Driving Mama

Watermelon Slim - Telluride Blues & Brews Festival - Live
Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Interview from the Festival, Sept. 15th & 16th, 2006

Watermelon Slim - Roots - Live
From the DVD "Ripe for the Picking" Track #2
Live at the Staircase, Hamilton, ON, Apr. 8th & 9th, 2005
Video by Rob Newberry & Ian Gibbons

Watermelon Slim - Smokestack Lightening - Live
From the DVD "Ripe for the Picking" Track #3
Live at the Staircase, Hamilton, ON, Apr. 8th & 9th, 2005
Video by Rob Newberry & Ian Gibbons

Watermelon Slim - Little Girl (I Don't Care No More) - Live
From the DVD "Ripe for the Picking" Track #13
Live at the Staircase, Hamilton, ON, Apr. 8th & 9th, 2005
Video by Rob Newberry & Ian Gibbons

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - Killing Floor - Live
Written by Chester Burnett
Video by Merl Zuel

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - Mannish Boy - Live
Written by Morganfield, London & McDaniel
Video by Merl Zuel

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - I Got A Problem - Live
Written by Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans
Video by Merl Zuel

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - Stud Poker - Live
Written by Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans
Video by Merl Zuel

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - I Don't Care No More - Live
Written by Sonny Boy Williamson
Video by Merl Zuel

Watermelon Slim & David Maxwell - July 2005
Ottawa Blues Festival, July 2005
Video by Rob Newberry

Podcasts

Get the latest audio and video as soon as it comes out on ITunes and Feedburner. For Podcasts of all multimedia click here!



MP3 Samples

The Wheel Man

Following samples are from the upcoming cd "The Wheel Man".

  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

Watermelon Slim & The Workers

  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 Bumper
  10. Bad Sinner
  11. Folding Money Blues
  12. Juke Joint Woman
  13. Hard Labor
  14. Eau de Boue

Up Close & Personal

  1. Truck Holler #1
  2. Blue Freightliner
  3. The Last Blues
  4. I Don't Care No More
  5. Stud Poker
  6. Smokestack Lightning
  7. Cynical Old Bastard
  8. Two Trains Running
  9. Bridgebuilder
  10. Too Old is Getting Younger All the Time
  11. Highway 61
  12. Scalemaster Blues
  13. Archetypal Blues
  14. Got My Will Made Out
  15. Mean Streets
  16. Truck Holler #2

Bonus Tracks

  1. The Whaler's Battle Cry
  2. Trashy Trashmen

Big Shoes to Fill

  1. Let it Be in Memphis
  2. She Makes Me Earn My Money
  3. Shed My Blood in Mississippi
  4. Immortal
  5. Who's Gonna Pay?
  6. Oklahoma Blues
  7. They Call Me Watermelon Slim
  8. WWW
  9. I Got a Problem
  10. Cruisin'
  11. Take Off Your Masks
  12. Red, White and Blues

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