(Blues-Rock) West Virginia Slim Electric Blues Band - West Virginia Slim Electric Blues Band - 1970 (vinyl-rip), MP3, 320 kbps

Jimmy Slim is a Virginian born singer (1942), guitarist and harp player named Archie Himons who recorded also in the 60's a blues album for Kent under the moniker of West Virginia Slim. After an almost fatal beating by the Ku Klux Klan in his native Virginia, he moved to Central America where he made a new career playing Reggae and Salsa under different names (Go Ayo, Akigo Haamu). He returned to the USA during the 1990's, setteled in Nashville and led the Afrikan Dreamland band and directed several films for PBS and antiracist shows. Archie was also instrumental in making an official recognition of DeFord Bailey. This is how I came to have a contact with him and that he told me his story. He was playing again the blues (recording an album) when he died in 2011, largely unnoticed by the blues world.
Gerard Herzhaft