Watermelon Slim - 2004 - Up Close & Personal.nfo
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Watermelon Slim - Up Close & Personal
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Artist...............: Watermelon Slim
Album................: Up Close & Personal
Genre................: Blues
Source...............: Flac
Year.................: 2004
Codec................: LAME 3.10
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: , ID3 v2.3
Information..........: Thanks to the original flac ripper
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Tracklisting
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1. Watermelon Slim - Truck Holler #1 [02:15]
2. Watermelon Slim - Blue Freightliner [03:50]
3. Watermelon Slim - The Last Blues [04:55]
4. Watermelon Slim - I Don't Care No More [03:39]
5. Watermelon Slim - Stud Poker [02:51]
6. Watermelon Slim - Smokestack Lightning [04:23]
7. Watermelon Slim - Cynical Old Bastard [02:34]
8. Watermelon Slim - Two Trains Running [03:53]
9. Watermelon Slim - Bridgebuilder [03:11]
10. Watermelon Slim - Too Old is Getting Younger All The Time[04:23]
11. Watermelon Slim - Highway 61 [04:13]
12. Watermelon Slim - Scalemaster Blues [03:17]
13. Watermelon Slim - Archetypal Blues [06:00]
14. Watermelon Slim - Got My Will Made Out [06:04]
15. Watermelon Slim - Mean Streets [04:37]
16. Watermelon Slim - Truck Holler #2 [01:00]
17. Watermelon Slim - The Whaler's Battle Cry (Bonus Track) [09:50]
18. Watermelon Slim - Trashy Trashmen (Bonus Track) [02:30]
Playing Time.........: 01:13:33
Total Size...........: 168.41 MB
NFO generated on.....: 1/19/2019 6:23:54 PM
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Watermelon Slim (his real name is Bill Homans) strips things down to basics on
Up Close & Personal, a move that brings out the raw, impassioned intensity
of his songs, and brings him as close as he's ever gotten to a fresh
contemporary vision of country blues. The instrumentation here is sparse,
usually just Slim alone with his National Steel guitar (a couple tracks feature
his fevered harmonica style, and on the moving "Bridgebuilder" he plays a
kalimba thumb piano), and at times he sounds like a looser, more unhinged
John Hammond, albeit with a more personal vision and an unyielding blue-
collar view of the world. There is more here than immediately meets the eye,
however, and if Watermelon Slim plays up the truck driver turned blues
player bit, he's also a member of MENSA and has a master's degree in history
from Oklahoma State University, which may well make him the most literate
figure in all of blues history. He certainly knows the country blues forms (two
of the most striking tracks here are unaccompanied field hollers that sound
like they could have been recorded by Alan Lomax), and he also knows how
to modernize them without distorting them. The end result is a furious,
visceral album of mostly acoustic blues with several striking tracks, including
"Blue Freightliner," "The Last Blues," "Scalemaster Blues," "Cynical Old
Bastard," and the affecting, delicate "Bridgebuilder." Watermelon Slim is
obviously part caricature, but the intensity with which he growls and shouts
these songs is more than a creative construct. It has to come from the heart.
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