[Harp-L] Watermelon Slim

[B Boggs <ceudoazul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello~
   
  After Dave Payne's post on Watermelon Slim, I got his "The Wheel Man" CD and am half way through it. The guys delivery on vocals and lyrics are great and remind of Paul DeLay in their down to earth-ness.
  Slide guitar and harp are awesome.
  How cool to hang out with such a musician!
  A lot of newer players I don't hear, I am glad I heard Watermelon Slim.
   
  I got paid to say this and I have stock in watermelons.
   
  BB
   
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                        Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:19:37 -0700 (PDT)
               From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
         Subject: [Harp-L] An evening with Watermelon Slim

  Watermelon Slim put on an awesome show in Marietta, Ohio Saturday.
 Awesome. He was using the house's sound, they had wireless, he took full
 advantage of it, he walked around in the crowd while he played harp and
 sang to people. You might be seeing more of that of shows, he said he
 loved being able to do that and he was looking at going wireless himself.
 

I hadn't seen him in a couple years. I got to hang out with him some
 before and quite a while after the show.  It was awesome to see him
 again.  I'd rather sit down and talk to him than just about any human being
 on earth, cause not only is he a wonderful guy and a great bluesman,
 he's a very deep, educated individual. We sat around talking, in our
 Appalachian drawls (his is NC, mine WV) about harps, fishing, baseball,
 moonshine whiskey, God, our own mortalities, history, Hemmingway and
 Shakespeare. He's going to Denmark this week, so we talked some about
 Europe, I told him to make sure he checks out the Museum Erotica museum of
 sex (a must-see) in Copenhagen, etc.
 
We were talking about Shakespeare's "King Henry V"  and he says out of
 the blue: "Would you like to hear a sonnet I wrote on the occasion of
 the death of the Queen Mother?" 
Of course, I said "hell yeah!" He recited his sonnet from memory, it
 traced the Queen Mother's life from the days she and England stood alone
 against Hitler to her death and England's mourning, etc. It reminded me
 of that sonnet Shakespeare wrote about Queen Elizabeth's death (my
 googling says it was Sonnet CVII), only, and I don't say this lightly, I
 think Watermelon's sonnet was a mite better. 

He finished his sonnet, looked off to the side and said "I specialize
 in iambic pentameter."
 I will remember Watermelon saying that, in a voice that sounded half
 Sir Lawrence Olivier and half Gabby Hayes, until the day I die. 


I put up some pics I took and a video of a Watermelon harp solo. You
 might have to click the play button on the media bar to get it started.
www.elkriverharmonicas.com/watermelon

I also came across this video on You Tube of Watermelon that is very
 good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqxj1yjXWS0


Dave Payne
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Dave Payne 
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com 


   

       
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