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Magic Slim and The Teardrops
- Pilegaarden, Copenhagen, 3/10/04

Early this summer I've got my first live dose of this Chicago legend's raw-as-fuck houserockin' blues, so when I read that Magic Slim (Morris Holt) and his young Teardrops guys were in town again during Copenhagen Blues Festival I was happier than Arnold Schwarzenegger in a grabass contest. The Magic Slim experience is a unique sight to behold, The Teardrops start with 2-3 songs while the 6 foot 4 giant sips whiskey in the bar. Then the 67-year old 300 pound behemoth joins'em on the stage and dish out his hardass electric guitar noize while sporting a mean manly guttural voice that gives Howlin' Wolf and Tom Waits a run for the money. And of course tonite he was again wearing his black cowboy hat and another tacky polyester suit and complaining about not enough ladies were dancing to his infectious Delta blues mayhem. Like last time we got 150 minutes of no-frills loud blues excellence with a couple tunes off his latest album, "Blue Magic", like "Goin' To Mississippi" and "I Want To See You In The Evening". My only beef with the show was that this tiny club, Pilegaarden, was like sitting in a fuckin' classrom in school again with small tables and kiddie chairs. A cat like Magic Slim should be seen and heard in smoke-filled rowdy bars packed with horny drunk women in my humble opinion. Oh yeah, drummer Allen Kirk bitched backstage about me not bringing him hash joints like last time, haha. Anyway, Lowcut readers, try check out more blues acts like Magic Slim (he plays a lot here in Denmark), than seeing yet another 3rd rate young Hellacopters copy band, okay? THE BLUES IS ALIVE!!

Jens