… with Magic Slim

Thu 04/19/07 Copenhagen, DEN Pumpehuset Club
Fri 04/20/07 Hileroed, DEN Stoeberihallen
Sat 04/21/07 Naestved, DEN Vershuset
Sun 04/22/07 Bronshoj, DEN Pilegarden
Fri 04/27/07 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Sat 04/28/07 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Fri 05/04/07 Minneapolis, MN Famous Dave’s
Sat 05/05/07 Evanston, IL Bill’s Blues Bar
Fri 05/11/07 Memphis, TN Club 152
Thu 05/17/07 Sao Paulo, BRA Vill Santo Theatre
Fri 05/18/07 Santos, BRA TBA
Sat 05/19/07 Santos, BRA TBA
Thu 06/07/07 Burlington, VT Discover Jazz Festival
Fri 06/08/07 Chicago, IL Buddy Guy’s Legends
Sat 06/09/07 Chicago, IL Chicago Blues Festival
Sat 07/21/07 Barcelona, SPA Barcelona Blues Festival
Thu 07/26/07 Cognac, FRA Blues Passions
Fri 07/27/07 Cazorla, SPA Blues Festival

…with Magic Slim

Thu 02/08/07 Waterloo, ON Starlight Social Club
Fri 02/09/07 Toronto, ON Silver Dollar
Sat 02/10/07 London, ON Centennial Hall
Fri 02/23/07 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Sat 02/24/07 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines

MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS
Anything Can Happen
Blind Pig 5098

Magic Slim & the Teardrops live up to the promotional claim: The Last Real Chicago Blues Band. A fixture on the scene since his late ’60s vinyl debut, Slim’s position as houserocker and deep blues artist of the first magnitude remains unquestioned, due to his worldwide live performances and his extensive recorded output. Although Wolf (Austria) has issued numerous live albums, no domestic imprint has released an in-performance CD on Slim. Now Blind Pig has done it properly, with “Anything Can Happen”, recorded during the winter months of 2005, a set composed almost completely of originals that makes a persuasive argument for Magic Slim’s status as a truly original bluesman.

The band’s lineup has wholly changed since Slim’s last recording,”Blue Magic”. The oldest new Teardrop, Vern “Sticks” Taylor, pops the snare in the manner of his immediate predecessor Al Kirk. Guitarist Jon McDonald, a veteran guitarist who has worked with national and Chicago-based artists, incorporates elements of the playing of Otis Rush, Mike Bloomfield, and Freddie King into a style of his own that is immediately apparent when he steps forward from his rock-solid rhythm duties. Chris Biedron is the latest in a series of bass players Slim has recruited in an effort to replace his retired brother, Nick Holt. Magic Slim’s force of personality has kept his Teardrops’ sound consistent despite personnel shifts. His showmanship encompasses rapport with audiences and innate understanding of his material, an immense voice, and gritty guitar work distinguished by its timing, dynamics, phrasing, alternating power and subtlety, and mastery of the tonal possibilities of his Fender Jazzmaster guitars. Slim has subsumed the styles of Eddie Taylor, B.B. King, Elmore James, Albert King, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, and many more in becoming his own man, the consummate veteran post-war Chicago journeyman blues artist.
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…with Magic Slim

Fri 09/30/05 Minneapolis, MN Famous Dave’s
Sat 10/01/05 Des Moines, IA Blues On Grand
Fri 10/07/05 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Sat 10/08/05 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Fri 10/21/05 Kalamazoo, MI Wonderful’s
Sat 10/22/05 Chicago, IL Buddy Guy’s Legends
Thu 10/27/05 Moscow, RUS TBA
Fri 10/28/05 Moscow, RUS TBA
Sun 10/30/05 Saint Petersburg, RUS TBA
Tue 11/01/05 Ekaterinburg, RUS TBA
Wed 11/02/05 Ekaterinburg, RUS TBA
Fri 11/04/05 Ufa, RUS TBA
Sun 11/06/05 Novosibirsk, RUS TBA
Tue 11/08/05 Rostov, RUS TBA
Wed 11/30/05 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s By The Bay
Fri 12/02/05 San Francisco, CA Biscuits ‘N Blues
Sat 12/03/05 Santa Barbara, CA Earl Warren Showgrounds
Sun 12/04/05 Sacramento, CA Horsemen’s Club
Tue 12/06/05 Chico, CA California State University

We just fininshed the new Magic Slim album “Anything Can Happen” (DVD too!) recorded live at Sierra Nevada Brewery in California.

…with Magic Slim

Sat 04/30/05 Jyderup, DEN Jazzclub
Sun 05/01/05 Paris, FRA Meridian Hotel
Mon 05/02/05 Paris, FRA Meridian Hotel
Thu 05/05/05 Las Vegas, NV Boulder Station Hotel & Casino
Sat 05/07/05 Tucson, AZ Nimbus Brewery
Sat 05/07/05 Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Jazz & Blues Festival
Fri 05/13/05 Chicago, IL Buddy Guy’s Legends
Sat 05/14/05 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Sun 05/15/05 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
Sat 05/21/05 Sao Paulo, BRA Bourbon Street
Sun 05/22/05 Sao Paulo, BRA Bourbon Street
Mon 05/23/05 Sao Paulo, BRA TBA
Tue 05/24/05 Rio Das Ostras, BRA TBA
Wed 05/25/05 Rio De Janeiro, BRA Canecao
Thu 05/26/05 Rio Das Ostras, BRA TBA
Fri 05/27/05 Rio Das Ostras, BRA TBA
Fri 06/03/05 Biel, SWI Blue Note
Sat 06/04/05 Baden, SWI Blues Festival
Sun 06/05/05 Ruthi, SWI Gruitli Club
Thu 06/09/05 Kolding, DEN Godset
Fri 06/10/05 Nordborg, DEN Nordborg Festival
Fri 06/17/05 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Sat 06/18/05 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Thu 06/23/05 Whitefish, MT Flanagan’s
Fri 06/24/05 Calgary, AB The Red Onion
Sat 06/25/05 Calgary, AB Victoria Park Community Hall
Fri 07/01/05 Chicago, IL Buddy Guy’s Legends
Sat 07/02/05 Davenport, IA Mississippi Valley Blues Festival
Fri 07/08/05 Toronto, ON Silver Dollar
Sat 07/16/05 Rauma, FIN Blues Festival
Mon 07/18/05 Sete, FRA Jazz A Sete
Sat 07/23/05 Cazorla, SPA Blues Festival
Sun 08/07/05 Azores, ISL Blues & Jazz Festival
Fri 08/26/05 Cleveland, OH Wilbert’s Food & Music
Sat 08/27/05 Jim Thorpe, PA Penn’s Peak

The Magic Slim Band has been nominated again this year for a Handy award.

The Handy Award will be given out April 29, 2004 in Memphis.

Me and Slim

Playing with the Magic Slim band May 2003