Bill Homans looks as rugged as the blues he plays. As his alter ego, Watermelon Slim, Homans honed his rough-and-tumble, bare-bones blues style bouncing around the country in a variety of blue-collar jobs. A Vietnam vet, he recorded an anti-war […]
The geography might be bit off for a bluesman, but Watermelon Slim’s music sounds as organic as his moniker. Born in Boston, raised in Asheville, North Carolina, Bill Homans honed his craft while working his way west as a truck […]
Watermelon Slim The Church of The Blues Northern Blues Watermelon Slim’s singular journey to the blues seems to be the diametric opposite of the great majority of most of those who came to/found the blues. He was born in […]
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