 Artist: Lynwood Slim: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Discography:  Lost In America Year: 1997 Tracks: 11 Lynwood Slim mat there were only 2 things he could do to make a living: shoot pool or play harmonica. Thank goodness he chose to be a musician. As a minor he played trumpet, simply at 15 he picked up the harmonica. Although drawn to listening to Jimmy Reed and Little Walter, he made the career choice afterward observance Brooklyn Slim and Paul Oscher. His early memorable gigs allowed him to sit down in with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and others. When the southern California scene dried up in the mid-'70s, he jammed up and affected to Minneapolis. Less than a workweek subsequently approach into townspeople, Slim replaced a band's premature harp thespian, Kim Wilson, wHO left for Austin to flesh the Fabulous Thunderbirds with Jimmy Vaughan. Eventually, he formed the Lynwood Slim Band, working much with Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston, James Smith and Walter Horton. His style of swing blues won him numerous awards bestowed by the Minnesota Music Academy, and he documented melodious triumphs with Lost in America, released in 1990; and Soul Feet, released in 1991 and reissued five long time subsequently. Slim briefly returned to Los Angeles, where united Dave Specter and touched to Chicago in 1995. Several years by and by, syndicate luck and the reblossoming of the southerly California scene returned Slim home. Besides his presence gracing the live L.A. scene, Slim and producer Jerry Hall have produced European and American artists over the long time. In 1998, they set up their own record pronounce, Pacific Blue Recording Company; Populace Wide Wood followed in 2000. |
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