• Watermelon Slim

    Watermelon Slim Plays Blues Shaped by Life as a ‘Traveling Man’
    Grant Britt Posted On March 26, 2020


    Bill Homans looks as rugged as the blues he plays. As his alter ego, Watermelon Slim, Homans honed his rough-and-tumble, bare-bones blues style bouncing around the country in a variety of blue-collar jobs . A Vietnam vet, he recorded an […]


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    Watermelon Slim Goes to Church
    Grant Britt Posted On January 25, 2019


    The geography might be bit off for a bluesman, but Watermelon Slim’s music sounds as organic as his moniker. Born in Boston, raised in Asheville, North Carolina, Bill Homans honed his craft while working his way west as a truck […]


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    Old Can be as Good As New or Better Better Better
    taoboy@cox.net Posted On January 18, 2019


    Watermelon Slim The Church of The Blues Northern Blues   Watermelon Slim’s singular journey to the blues seems to be the diametric opposite of the great majority of most of those who came to/found the blues.  He was born in […]


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