View basket “The Ballad Of John Henry” has been added to your basket. Direct To Disc Watermelon Slim SKU: AAPO016 Barcode: AAPO016 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: APO Records Released Date: 17th August 2015 Buying Format: 200g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Analogue Productions Originals 2010 Direct-to-Disc Sessions Pressed at Quality Record Pressings in Salina, Kansas Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans is nothing if not a renaissance man. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont on a fencing scholarship but dropped out to enlist in the Army for the Vietnam War. While laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed, he taught himself upside-down, left-handed slide guitar. He worked as a truck driver, a forklift operator, a saw mill hand, a funeral officiator and at times as a small-time criminal. Due to the latter vocation, he fled Boston to lay low in Oklahoma where he farmed watermelons, hence his stage name. He’s earned two undergrad degrees along with a master’s. He painted art and briefly joined Mensa. Oh, and he likes to read Shakespeare and bowls a steady 240. No surprise then that he draws from a plenty diverse range of influences to form his unique brand of raw and honest blues. It’s music as interesting as the man. Artist Watermelon Slim Genre Blues Label APO Records Buying Options 200g 1LP Format 1LP , 200g Condition New Country United States of America Track Listings 1. Angel From Montgomery (John Prime) 2. Ain't Whistling Dixie 3. Smokestack Lightning (Chester Burnett) 4. Take My Mother Home 5. Living In Oklahoma 6. 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