Shrimp City Slim: News

One of our best ever. Now onto other projects. Keep supporting live music (blues)!

Youtube - search "Diedra at the Blues Bash" and you will land on a six-minute video of our show on Friday Feb 5 at the Library. Thanks to Allen Vance.

www.bluesbash.com for all the gory details

and runs for twelve days (through Mardi Gras Feb 16)...go where you can when you can: www.bluesbash.com (print your own brochure)!

Thanks very much to Joe Sitarz and Richard Whiting for the glowing review of Wanda Johnson & Shrimp City Slim January 9 at the Greenwood Community Theatre. Just so you know: Silent Eddie DOES play bass, too, but not with the band (he's our guitarist!).
www.indexjournal.com and click on Accent on Life

Thanks to Michael and the crew for re-running that show with Wanda Johnson & Shrimp City Slim. We recorded it at Clemson some months ago, re-run today nationally. Folks in Detroit and Arkansas (and elsewhere) have written to say they heard it. NICE.

We'll be doing shows with a number of talented female artists at this year's 20th annual Lowcountry Blues Bash: DieDra (Birmingham, AL) who has a song on the Top 20 Beach/Shag charts; Wanda Johnson (of course), "The New Voice of South Carolina soul & blues"; and the legendary Beverly Guitar Watkins from Atlanta (played guitar in the band of Piano Red in the early 1960s). www.bluesbash.com for full sched/line-up updated momentarily.

Lots of love to our friends and fans on this holiday season. 2010 (aka the "New Year") holds hope & promise for us all. Take care and have a stressfree Christmas,
Shrimp, Eddie, Adam, Juke, and Chuck

With Jerome Griffin (bass, vocals) back as Musical Director. Check out the dates at www.myspace.com/tonywashingtonsingers

Folks have asked about the Steve Simon Presents show called "Charleston Blues Festival" which happens one night during our 20th annual Blues Bash upcoming in Charleston.

We have NOTHING to do with this show, but are putting it in the brochure/schedule as a courtesy. He is bringing in Shemekia Copeland, Zac Harmon, and Billy Gibson and charging $35 per ticket.

Our shows are either FREE or modest cover charges $3-15. Watch for Blues Bash finalized soon.

Thanks to everyone (fans, artists, fellow organizers) who helped make the first annual PDBB a major success on all levels. 2010 will be bigger & better! More details soon.

Check out the TV show we did ("Pee Dee Outlook" with Tom Kinard) recorded at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, to promote the Pee Dee Blues Bash. That's me with Tom Kinard, Tom Marschel (Florence Chamber of Commerce), and Frank Love (First Bank). A song at beginning and end and lots of discussion in between about the fest. www.peedeebluesbash.com is where to find it...fun!

Late Dec/early Jan tour of Italy, organized by Slang Music. www.slangmusic.com (some dates already announced). NEWS: Jerome Griffin returns to the band on bass/music director. Friends will remember Jerome from the SCS band circa 1995-2000 and the last two Wanda Johnson albums.

"Music festivals...a few have endured, such as the excellent Lowcountry Blues Bash..."
Read more:
www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/22/shinefest-bands-rock-out-for-education-and-small/

Always a great time. This year, Nov 13 Friday, we will be performing (with Juke Joint Johnny as leader) on a bill with Bob Margolin and Cyril Neville. Should be a throwdown. www.roundhousebluesandbbq.com

Thanks to everyone who turned up and enjoyed the music. Dates for 2010:
CDBF: Oct 7-9
AMC: Oct 3

We had a blast yesterday, doing our interlude between sets by legendary hippie rocker Jesse Colin Young, at Green Fair in Charleston. Stormed up to Pawleys Island Tavern to do the 8pm-midnight show. Good time with lots of Solid Gold Dancers. The fun continues this week Mon-Wed here in Charleston before heading to Camden for the 13th annual Downhome Blues Fest. You should be there!

This will be fun: www.peedeebluesbash.com

Dr Pickup arrives today from Paris and we are off & running for two weeks-plus of gigs. www.dpickup.com for more info on this vivacious European bluesman.

The SCS band has existed in the Charleston area since 1985; we've had lots of personnel changes down through the years. In case you haven't seen LaMont Garner on drums with us lately, it is because he scored a gig playing six weeks with an R&B band in...(hold on)...Addis Ababa, Ethiopia @ the Sheraton Hotel. We just heard from him and he is safe & sound. An amazing experience! and couldn't happen to a nicer guy. His myspace page is
www.myspace.com/clamontg (which he will probably update with progress reports from Addis). Wow!
"Rockin' Adam" Parrott has signed on as our semi-fulltime drummer with substitutions by John "Turbo" Etheridge and Jerome Griffin.