Felix Slim - Midtown Blues

Size: 322 MB
Time: 57:51
File: Flac
Released: 2014
Styles: Vintage Blues, Swing, Ragtime
Art: Front

1. Down The Dirt Road (4:06)
2. The Hoodoo Man Blues (3:40)
3. No Blues About My Baby (5:25)
4. Georgia Rag (2:29)
5. Kindhearted Woman (3:06)
6. Don't Sell Your Soul (3:15)
7. Searchin' The Deserts For The Blues (2:34)
8. I Hate You Cause I Love You (5:57)
9. Everybody Loves My Baby (4:44)
10. Future Blues (3:28)
11. Cele's Rag (2:12)
12. Precious Lord (3:52)
13. See My Jumper (5:51)
14. Red Hot (2:22)
15. Bye Bye, I'm Gonna See The King (4:42)

Mr. Slim has spent the last 20 years touring, recording and evolving an inimitable style. He has given clinics and master classes bringing his music to venues and festivals to the United States, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, England, Greece, Turkey, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, South Korea and Morocco. In 2004 he moved to Greece for a couple of years and discovered what would become his second musical passion besides the blues , Rebetiko music and the three double strings Bouzouki. Years later he will create The Grekos, a rebetiko duo where Felix sings and play bouzouki accompanied by bass-rhythm guitarist Kiko Machuca. In 2012 he had a role as a heckled blues musician in the independent movie “Las Aventuras de Lily Ojos de Gato” In 2014 Felix represented the Barcelona Blues Society in the biggest gathering of blues acts in the world, the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge IBC, which takes place every year on Beale St in Memphis, TN. In 2016 he moved to Brooklyn, NY and has become one of the most highly regarded blues musicians in the city, playing more than 200 shows in New York every year. In 2017 and 2018 he returned to the International Blues Challenge representing the Hondarribia Blues Society, becoming a finalist two years in a row in such important event, which opened the gate to the U.S. blues scene, touring Europe in June and July, and performing in the Wheeling Heritage Blues Fest, WV in August and the 1st Seoul Blues Festival in South Korea in October, sharing the stage with the Norman Jackson Band and the best of the best of the Korean blues scene. During 2019 Slim recorded his new album ‘Overseas Blues’ at Binky Griptite’s studio, toured Europe and the US several times, became Solo/Duo Winner in the Long Island Blues Challenge and Long Island Blues Society ambassador, along with Pamela Betti Band, in the IBC 2020.

Midtown Blues FLAC

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