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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 มี.ค. 2006
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Watermelon Slim - Smokestack Lightning
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This is Watermelon Slim - the only Oklahoma blues musician signed to a major label. This guy is the real deal... He's been driving a truck for 30 years, been in vietnam, has three degrees, and just a few more teeth... All the rock and rollers out there that call themselves blues players take note... Oh...and he's left handed - so, that's a righty dobro he's playing, upside down and backwards. F...
A real HAPPY 74th Birthday to Mr. William Perkins Homens III aka Watermelon Slim and really ALL the best to him ... (2023-0425)
That voice his playing!!! Great video.
Now that's what I call the Blues! We have a local music center that features all kinds of music. Went to couple Blues festivals. Sounded more like Rhytem N Blues. Wish it were this good!!!!
I saw Watermelon Slim in an odd way. Back when I was at Oklahoma State he was friends with a guy in my fraternity. This random old guy and a 20-something guy were friends. Anyways, Watermelon Slim played at my fraternity on the porch during Greek Week and I would just see him around campus at random times. It's odd knowing someone in such a unique way and then learning he is a significant person in his blues genre. He was just the old guy who played a steel lap guitar at the local college watering holes and would stop by to chat. But the guy just gave this air of knowing so much about a time and tradition that is 99.9% lost today.
hot damn Tijuana----they just don't grow bluesmen like this anymore....who said Okies couldn't jam the blues....WS gives us 70 + yr old blues junkies somethin' to cheer about
damn it this man is incredible raw blues at its best
Merry Brakemen
where's my damn slide !!???!!! this man good
Saw WS being interviewed about 15 years ago in New Zealand when he was on tour. Wasn't in a position to go and see him but boy, I really loved his sincerity and back story. Played a bit of Sm. Ltng. Have come back to this video once in a while to re-live that wonderful feeling when you have "discovered a cool new artist you've never heard of."
Classic ❤❤❤
You're as young as way back when I knew you! Things just got old, that's all.
loved this tune by howling wolf 1963 in the uk this guy does it more than justice
Hear him quite a bit on Bluesville. Heard this for the first time on Strictly Blues last night. Howlin' Wolf would be proud of this rendition.
oh wow i love this...there is that much soul and spirit put into this song its unreal...this would have to be one of the best slide guitar songs on the tube ..its the way its sung
The guitar sound great, very good blues music.
Watermelon Slim, thank you for this beautiful music.
Holy shit, that's the baddest shit i ever fkkn heard a slide ninja slice up like that brother. Can't believe i never heard of you. Have now, Sir. Well played, indeed.
This is my dad too
You just came into the Waffle House in Douglasville, GA! Thank you, your great!
Slims drummer is my stepdad
i will see him tomorrow in France, Verdun. an honor !! in a little intimate place!
WOW! THAT is Blues, Brutha!
So glad I'm going to see him Friday in Wichita!
FINE WORK SLIM
This is amazing talent here! thanks for posting this Sp33dBr33d Wow!
What is the tuning?
DGDGBD - Open G tuning
This is just pure gold drippin blues!!!
very , very good!!! fantastic!!!!
This man is true authentic blues...great slide work.
I saw him play this at Mike's College Bar in Stillwater, OK late-summer 2003. Best playing I have ever heard in person, he is a musical genius. Got to meet him later, he is a humble, down-to-earth guy who loves to play great blues. God bless you Slim!
Smokeschstack lightin'
Tut Taylor used a flat pick too!
The real deal indeed....coooL man..!!!!
Love that Watermelon tastes so good !!!! You da man brother !!!!
WOW!!!!....What the hell is in the water in Oklahoma? Leon Russell, J J Cale, Delaney and Bonnie....they sure keep it real out there.....
what was the soon to be released short film? Blues like this makes me realise im so pissed off, im un-pissed off lol
The real deal indeed.I love this guy's stuff...
if iam not mistaken "soundgarden" has a song called like it!
sappers rule
vfp sappers rule, lol
thats the stuff!
Lol believe it or not, this is my dad! I love seein' his stuff on TH-cam!
are you serious???
as a heart attack. My papa, watermelon Slim, AKA Bill Homans.
That is so cool! Can we be friends? Lol
I suppose?
Do you have a Facebook?
awesome! looks like he's using a harmonica as a slide! gonna try that!
It's a shotglass that we had lying around my house.
This is absolutely the best Watermelon Slim video on TH-cam and has been since it was posted.
He is one smart dude, and I love his style of picking that dobro. Partied with him In DC when the VFP went there to protest the iraq war, and both of us were arrested at the White house fence. Lots of others, too. Good dude.
Had the opportunity to hear him play in a hole in the wall in Clarksdale, Mississippi a few years ago he actually came outside while i was smoking a cig after he finished his set and we shot the shit for a few minutes. That was a good time and this man is a very serious and good musician who didnt mind taking the time to talk to someone he had clearly made an impression on.
Slim! I used to catch you in Stilly whenever you played with Texas Ray Isom and Doren Recker! One awesome cat, blows the meanest harp around.
The pain is strong with this one. Awesome track!