Lynwood Slim is an American

United States

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 blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

 player and singer.

Biography

Slim started playing the trumpet at age 12. He started to play harmonica when he was 15. His early influences include Jimmy Reed

Jimmy Reed

Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries...

, Little Walter

Little Walter

Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs , was an American blues harmonica player, whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, for innovation and impact on succeeding generations...

 and Big Walter Horton

Big Walter Horton

Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton, was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming and essentially shy man, Horton is remembered as one of the premier harmonica players in the history of blues...

. He played the Los Angeles music scene then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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 in 1977. He became a major force on the music scene, winning awards for best blues band in 1986.

Slim moved to Amsterdam, Holland in 1988, returned to Los Angeles later that same year. He started working with Junior Watson

Junior Watson

Junior Watson is an American jump blues guitarist and singer.-Career:Watson is regarded as an influential West Coast blues player. He was a founding member of the blues band The Mighty Flyers and, starting in the early 1980s, he performed with the band for a decade. He also performed with Canned...

, as well as Hollywood Fats Band

Hollywood Fats

Hollywood Fats was an American blues guitarist, active in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Hollywood Fats was born Michael Leonard Mann in Los Angeles, and started playing guitar at the age of 10...

 alumni Larry Taylor

Larry Taylor

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, Fred Kaplan and Richard Innes. He started playing the flute after listening to James Moody

James Moody (saxophonist)

James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player. He was best known for his hit "Moody's Mood for Love," an improvisation based on "I'm in the Mood for Love"; in performance, he often improvised vocals for the tune.-Biography:James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia...

 and Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...

.

Lynwood Slim is best known as a singer in the style of smooth easy jazz/blues as well as his harmonica and flute playing as well. Recording credits include a number of solo CD's as well as 35 to 40 as guest performer, producer, engineer, arranger and song writer. Slim currently is a signed to Delta Groove

Delta Groove Productions

Delta Groove Productions is a blues record label based in Van Nuys, California. The company Delta Groove Productions, Inc. was founded by Southern California-based producer, concert promoter and harmonica player Randy Chortkoff...

, an independent blues label based in Van Nuys, California. He has toured and recorded in the United States

United States

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 as well as Europe

Europe

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, South America

South America

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 and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

.

Discography

• 1996 Soul Feet (Atomic Theory ATM 1121)
• 1997 Lost in America (Atomic Theory ATM 1135)
• 1998 Back to Back (CrossCut 11059) with Junior Watson
• 1999 World Wide Wood (Pacific Blues PBRC 9903)
• 1999 Too Small to Dance (Pacific Blues PBRC 9902) with Big Rhythm Combo
• 2006 Last Call (Delta Groove DGPCD108)
• 2010 Brazilian Kicks (Delta Groove) with The Igor Prado Band

External links

• Official site on Myspace
• Fan site
• [ Lynwood Slim biography on Allmusic]