…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

…with Magic Slim

Fri 10/27/06 Tallahassee, FL Bradfordville Blues Club
Sat 10/28/06 Sarasota, FL Ed Smith Stadium
Wed 11/01/06 Williamsburg, VA J.M. Randall’s
Thu 11/02/06 New York, NY Terra Blues
Fri 11/03/06 New London, CT Dark Street Cafe
Sat 11/04/06 Newark, DE Gators
Fri 11/10/06 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Sat 11/11/06 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines
Wed 11/22/06 Las Vegas, NV Santa Fe Station Casino
Thu 11/23/06 Las Vegas, NV Boulder Station Hotel & Casino
Fri 11/24/06 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s By The Bay
Sat 11/25/06 Redwood City, CA Little Fox Theatre
Sun 11/26/06 Sacramento, CA Horsemen’s Club
Fri 12/15/06 Chicago, IL Buddy Guy’s Legends
Sun 12/31/06 Chicago, IL Kingston Mines

Playin’ at Legends June 10, 2006, with Magic Slim

Another solo from the Vaulx A Jazz Festival in Vaulx-en-Venin, France. This time to the great Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster”. Thanks to Marlene for sending this in.

Check out this solo to “Yonder Wall” at the Vaulx A Jazz Festival in Vaulx-en-Venin, France.

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.