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Blues performer Watermelon Slim quit driving a truck in 2004 to pursue music full time with his band, The Workers. Aspiring musicians in the trucking industry are common, but the guys who actually ...

Almost exactly a year since his last visit, blues great Watermelon Slim returns to Capitol Oyster Bar on Sunday in Montgomery, just ahead of his new album release. The Boston native's latest album ...

"I was just standing out in the middle of the fields, keeping the crows off my watermelons," slide guitarist Bill Homans said, recalling the origins of his nom de blues, "and I had a piece of ...

Blues is a genre where life experience matters, and Watermelon Slim has lived a life of nothing but experience. During a recent interview via cell phone, Slim was driving for his band, The Workers.

Continuing blog downloads tied to the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival: If Bill Homans' life were a movie, you might be tempted to say the director had overstuffed the film: Grew up in North Carolina ...

There's a reason Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans calls his band the Workers: work is at the core of his existence, and is the source of many of his songs. Work is also how the Oklahoma-based blues ...

Why you should listen: William P. Homans aka Watermelon Slim would be an unforgettable character even if he had never sung a single song. Vietnam War veteran and protester of same, dirt farmer, ...

Life as a blues musician is often a balancing act between touring, recording or working odd jobs just to make ends meet. One such musician's days of driving trucks and selling firewood are far behind ...

When the Scottish rock band Nazareth sang “Woke up this morning, my dog was dead,” presumably it was just a song. But sometimes, it’s real. In an episode of the podcast In the Dark: Coronavirus in the ...

If extensive life experience is a requirement to sing the blues, like Watermelon Slim believes, then he hits it hands down. The 64-year-old blues musician, born Bill Homans, is a Vietnam veteran, ...

The NorthernBlues Music release The Wheel Man wins “Album of the Year" over peers Koko Taylor, Bettye LaVette and Jimmie Vaughan. Watermelon Slim and the Workers won a pair of awards at the ...