Showing posts with label Watermelon Slim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watermelon Slim. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2014

My Week As A Tortured Soul Day 6 - Clarksdale, MS


We left Indianola and headed to Clarksdale and arrived at the Riverside Hotel... HISTORIC!

So many people have stayed or visited here from Muddy t Ike Turner (Rocket 88, was penned here), Sam Cooke, The Blind Boys Of Alabama and is the hospital (which it was originally) where Bessie Smith passed after her car accident.

We were given a tour by Z, the granddaughter of the woman who purchased the propert in the 40's...she is third generation owner of the establishment - her father Ratt, who passed last year.

As her father did for years, Z gave us a tour of the rooms and explained who stayed in which room.. so very cool.

Monday, April 7, 2014

04/07/14 Watermelon Slim Sat On The Couch


Bill "Watermelon Slim" Holmans.

What can you say about this man? Bonnie Raitt probably said it best when at a 2009 concert she called Slim a "living blues legend".

Born in Boston, Slim was raised in North Carolina listening to the housekeeper sing John Lee Hooker songs.