Watermelon Slim

Bluesman, Vietnam veteran, and MENSA member Watermelon Slim (given name: Bill Homans) is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who seemingly roared onto the scene with his 2003 album Big Shoes to Fill after three full decades of working off and on in bars and clubs across the country. Prior to that, Slim had hammered away at making music his career, all the while holding dozens of day jobs including trucker (he hauled toxic waste among other things), collections agent, petty criminal, funeral officiant, newspaper reporter, and more. It's no wonder his house-rocking 2...