Watermelon Slim
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Blues
Styles: Country Blues, Contemporary Blues, Acoustic Blues, Electric Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Electric Country Blues, Folk-Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
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Watermelon Slim (his real name is Bill Homans) was born in Boston but raised in North Carolina, where, he says, he was first exposed to the blues at the age of five. He sang in choirs and glee clubs as a child, but he began seriously turning to music after a tour of duty in Vietnam that ended in 1970. He independently released the furiously antiwar album Merry Airbrakes in 1973. Although he has spent most of his adult life as a blue-collar laborer (mostly as a truck driver), Homans still found a whole lot of time for academia, earning degrees i...
See also
- David Maxwell (2)
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- Seasick Steve (42)
- C.W. Stoneking (4)
Influenced by
- Jimmy Reed (9)
- Mississippi Fred Mcdowell (5)
- Slim Harpo (5)
- Charley Patton (5)
- Furry Lewis (1)
- Jimmie Rodgers (0)
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