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Watermelon Slim

Bill Homans, a.k.a "Watermelon Slim", has a storied past from which he draws experience and fodder for the fourteen tracks on the new Watermelon Slim & The Workers CD. The record is Slim's third in four years and his debut release for Toronto-based NorthernBlues Records, where it's the latest in a string of critically acclaimed projects by artists such as Otis Taylor, David Jacobs-Strain, Janiva Magness and others. Despite playing his first paid gig at 18 and spending more than 30 plus years as a musician, it was only recently Bill 'Watermelon Slim' Homans manifested his life pursuit.

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The Hamsters

The Hamsters are now coming up to their 20th year of hard work and heavy blues rock and roll, have performed more than 3,500 concerts with a national mailing list exceeding 20,000. The Hamsters are Britain's hardest working band, with an insane gig list that most bands would find daunting. The Hamsters have established themselves as the UK's top blues-rock attraction, done purely by hard work without any major record labels, handling all of their own affairs.

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Louisiana Red

Louisiana Red (born Iverson Minter, 1932, Bessema, Alabama, United States) is a blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who has recorded more than 50 albums. In a career spanning over half a century, Louisiana Red has played with just about every major bluesman you can name, some of the most memorable encounters being his jams with B.B.King and Muddy Waters. But it doesn’t matter who he plays with or where he appears - Louisiana Red brings the same intensitiy and enthusiasm to every stage he appears on...

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Charlie Musselwhite

Musselwhite was born in the rural hill country of Mississippi. He has said that he is of Choctaw descent, and he was born in a region originally inhabited by the Choctaw. However, in a 2005 interview, he said his mother had told him he was actually Cherokee. His family considered it normal to play music, with his father playing guitar and harmonica, his mother playing piano, and a relative who was a one-man band. At the age of three, Musselwhite moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

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Calgary Folk Fest 2008

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Debbie Davies

Debbie Davies (b. 1952 in Los Angeles, CA) is a blues guitarist. She has been the featured guitarist in several female based bands including Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs (led by John Mayall's wife) and Fingers Taylor and the Ladyfinger Revue (who opened for Jimmy Buffett during his 1991 tour). Besides her solo work, Davies is best known for her work with Albert Collins as a member of his band, the Icebreakers.

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Henrik Freischlader Band

HENRIK FREISCHLADER BAND | Blues On The Road
Henrik Freischlader has carved out in 3 years with over 500 concerts and 3 successful CDs his place at the top of the blues scene. Some music critics predicted at the beginning of his career, Henrik is now exactly where he always wanted to be! Blues with language as a living form of the expression of pain and sorrow, anger and rage, humor and joy, which the loyal and appreciative audience will be given again and again, look at the virtuosity of his seemingly limitless musical possibilities.

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Burnt Ice

Burnt Ice are a blues band based in and around Portsmouth, UK. Formed in 1987 they have developed a distinctive brand of jazzy funky blues. The current lineup features
Andy Broad - guitar / vocals
Martin Bird - guitar
Simon Tufnail - bass
Alan Blackie Blackmore - drums

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Jimi Hocking

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Little Axe

Providing guitars, bass, keyboards, and vocals, Little Axe is the return to the blues that Skip grew up with and learned from his father. Born Bernard Alexander on 1 September 1949, Dayton, Ohio in the USA. Skip McDonald learned to play the blues on his father's guitar from the age of 8, although by the time he was 12 years old he had opted to perform doo-wop. But from picking up a guitar as a child, and returning to his roots with Little Axe, there has been a long twisting road.

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James Blood Ulmer

James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 2, 1942 in St. Matthews, South Carolina) is an American avant-garde jazz and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer's distinctive guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging." His singing has been called "raggedly soulful." Ulmer began his career playing with various soul jazz ensembles, and first recorded with organist John Patton in 1969. After moving to New York in 1971, Ulmer played with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Joe Henderson, Paul Bley, Rashied Ali and Larry Young.