MERRY AIRBRAKES ORIGINAL LP Bluesy Folk/Psych SIGNED
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Here's a very rare record album titled BILL HOMANS' MERRY AIRBRAKES. This is an ORIGINAL PRESSING that was independently released on the St. George International label, ST06, in 1973. Front cover has "Bill Homans" hand done with glue and glitter (not present on many copies). This includes the original insert that has been inscribed and signed by Watermelon Slim [aka Bill Homans] (to Ray & Diane on their wedding day).
Tracks include:
- Vigilante Man
- Frog Song
- The Bearded Man
- Quang Tri City
- Even Those Among Us
- Draft Board Blues
- Three Hearts
- A Happy Song For Hanoi
- Preacher Song
- Tribute To Frankie
A biography on the Allmusic website, written by Steve Leggett, reads: "Watermelon Slim (his real name is Bill Homans) was born in Boston but raised in North Carolina, where, he says, he was first exposed to the blues at the age of five. He sang in choirs and glee clubs as a child, but he began seriously turning to music after a tour of duty in Vietnam that ended in 1970. He independently released the furiously antiwar album Merry Airbrakes in 1973. Although he has spent most of his adult life as a blue-collar laborer (mostly as a truck driver), Homans still found a whole lot of time for academia, earning degrees in history and journalism from the University of Oregon and a master's degree in history from Oklahoma State University. He founded a blues band, Fried Okra Jones, in the late '90s and has fronted them ever since with his raw, impassioned blues singing, harp playing, and impressive National Steel guitar style (which he plays left-handed). His songs feature subtle, intelligent twists (he is a member of MENSA, after all) while remaining undeniably in the blues tradition. Following a serious heart attack, Watermelon Slim turned his attention full-time to music, releasing two albums on Southern Records, Big Shoes to Fill in 2003 and Up Close & Personal in 2004. Assembling a new band, the Workers, he released the hard-hitting and impressive Watermelon Slim & the Workers in 2006 on the Toronto-based Northern Blues label, following it a year later with The Wheel Man and with No Paid Holidays in 2008. He then switched gears just a little into country territory with an album of truck driving songs, Escape from the Chicken Coop, which Northern Blues released in 2009."
Cover has bumped corners and some overall rubing Vinyl has a few light paper scuffs. It is in NEAR MINT MINUS (NM-) CONDITION.
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