Slim Pickens
Steel Resonator guitar, stomp box, vocals
"Foot stompin grooves, bareboned Delta fingerpickin styles and smooth vocals" is how Mark "Radar" Watson describes Slim's debut album "Chicken Soup". Slim got into blues as a teenager in the 60's and played guitar in a couple of bands before switching to bass at age 18.
Since then he has played many styles of music from rock to jazz, Irish music, folk music, reggae and funk. He toured Australia continually for 3 years in the 70's with a funk band from Perth in Western Australia. Since then he has studied music in India in the 80's, picked up more instruments...mandolin, sitar, dulcimer, didgeridoo, Double Bass and recorded several albums. He has written and recorded the soundtrack for an ABC television documentary "Trek".
His first solo album Chicken Soup, featuring Slim's polished vocals and resonator guitar style, has been heard on Blues radio shows in Argentina, Denmark, Germany, and the USA as well as here in Australia. (Click this link to hear some sample tracks from Chicken Soup). In 2003 he signed a publishing deal with the ABC and had one of his recorded tracks played in New York as part of the September 11th Commemoration ceremony.
Slim's song "Who Cares" went to No.1 on the Blues Charts of the popular American web-site garageband.com. Another of his songs "Losin' Sleep" has been getting national airplay on ABC radio.
Slim is currently working on his second solo album.