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WS on ATC – AT THE CROSSROADS
Click here to hear more Thank You Brant Zwicker, Host of "AT THE CROSSROADS" This is a great program, syndicated and heard on many stations in Canada, USA and online everywhere. Please listen for Watermelon Slim, New Release, "Church of the Blues". Airs -...
read moreRoots Music Report -WS 12 weeks in top 20!
Click here to read more The Roots Music Report's Top 50 Blues Album Chart for the Week of Apr 27, 2019 # 15 – Church of the Blues – 12 weeks in top 20! Click here to read...
read moreWatermelon Slim review – Blues Bytes
Blues Bytes - Graham Clarke Thank You, Blues Bytes & Graham Clarke for this great review! Watermelon Slim – Church of the Blues I’ve missed the last couple of albums from Watermelon Slim, so I was glad to see a copy of his latest release, Church Of The...
read moreTAX DAY – LISTEN TO WATERMELON SLIM’S “TAX MAN BLUES” TO HELP YOU GET THRU ANOTHER APRIL 15!
The BluesPowR Blog - Mike Rick Click here to read the entire review TAX DAY APRIL 15, 2019 LISTEN TO WATERMELON SLIM’S “TAX MAN BLUES” TO HELP YOU GET THRU ANOTHER APRIL 15!! Date: April 11, 2019 8:44:58 AM CDT Subject: April edition of BluesPowR Radio...
read moreICON Ezine review of “Church of the Blues”
ICON - Mark Keresman "...he looks as if he could be Harvey Dent’s grand-dad, dresses like a riverboat gambler and he plays the blues as if he emerged from a Mississippi delta-to-South Side-of-Chicago time-warp...Church of the Blues is one of those albums that no...
read moreChurch of the Blues in the Top 10 Blues Album Charts – 3.23.19
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read moreToronto Blues Society reviews Church of the Blues
Toronto Blues Society: Maple Blues Newsletter - John Valenteyn Maple BluesWatermelon Slim - Church of the Blues "One of the best modern blues albums so far... Watermelon Slim continues to be a force to be reckoned with."John Valenteyn - Toronto Blues...
read moreWatermelon Slim – Soul Bag (FR) – song feature
Soul Bag - CD Sampler Click here to visit the magazine Thank You SoulBag Magazine (France) for including our song “Post Modern Blues” in your new CD Sampler. -From the new release by Watermelon Slim, “Church of the Blues”, on Northern Blues Music. Click...
read moreWS review/Bentley’s Bandstand (Morton Report)
The Morton Report - Bill Bentley Click here to read the entire review Bentley's Bandstand: March 2019 Watermelon Slim – “Church of the Blues” Northern Blues Music "Watermelon Slim has got the goods up, down and doggie, and you'd have to have a huge hole in...
read moreElton John comments on Watermelon Slim
Beats 1 Radio3.9.19Elton John’s Rocket Hour“Watermelon Slim – I love it, St Peter’s Ledger, from his album Church of the Blues."--Sir Elton John
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Protest Music for a New generation Vietnam-Era Musicians Lead Chorus of Voices Against War- 2003.
Watermelon Slim, Pete Seeger, Barbara Dane, Thurston Moore, Tuli Tupferberg
The show at the Public Theater in NYC brought together some of the biggest names of protest music in the 1960s with a younger group of musicians –
this time, to come together to speak out against another war.
They performed songs from The Vietnam Songbook -- a volume of protest music compiled in 1969.
The concert was organized by musicians Don Fleming and Kim Rancourt,
with the support of The Alan Lomax Archive and The Smithsonian Institution.
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Protest Music for a New Generation
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Even before the Bush administration embarked on the current war in Iraq, many musicians were speaking out in opposition. Veterans of the antiwar movement from a generation ago say that society and the media have changed significantly since the end of the Vietnam War -- and that's changed musical pro...Thank you East Coast BluesWilliam Homans III, better known as Watermelon Slim, a one of a kind American Blues Musician.
Agreed!Watermelon Slim on bended knee delivering the goods on center stage at the Daytona Blues Festival in 2015! We need to bring back that Festival- it was one of the very best in Central Florida.
New Music
Church of the Blues (2019)
New release "Church of the Blues" released Jan 25th, 2019!
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