Track Listing

1. The Wheel Man
2. I've Got News
3. Black Water
4. Jimmy Bell
5. Newspaper Reporter
6. Drinking And 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41680 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .17 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Jerry Wexler producer of Ray Charles
"Watermelon Slim incarnates the deepest & truest roots of American Music"

Blues Revue.
"A blues giant who's the real deal all the way around"

Customer Reviews

What Can You Say About a Man Who Has Everything?
Watermelon Slim has everything: A great voice, a sharp mind, a great guitar technique, his own truck, good looks (OK perhaps not) and some of the best damn blues albums you are ever likely to listen to.

This album is excellent. It stays close enough to the roots of the music to appeal to those looking for the 'authentic blues' and far enough ahead to appeal to those who want the blues to develop, grow and stay relevant in the 21st Century.

His lyrics are certainly relevant to the modern World and I just love the way nearly every track manages to hover between the most outlandish send-up of the genre and the most profound respect for the blues tradition.

Listen to this CD and you will be listening to one of the greatest blues artists of the 21st Century. If that doesn't appeal, then I don't know what will. Buy it. You won't be dissappointed.