Watermelon Slim (D2D)
Vocals, Guitar - Watermelon Slim
1 LP, standard sleeve
Direct-to-Disc recording
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : APO Records
Original Label : APO Records
Recorded at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, Kansas in October, 2004
Engineered by Katsuhiko Naito
Produced by Chad Kassem
Mastered by Kevin Gray
Released in 2011
Tracks:
Side A :
- Angel From Montgomery
- Ain't Whistling Dixie
- Smokestack Lightning
Side B :
- Take My Mother Home
- Living In Oklahoma
- Immortal
Reviews :
Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans is nothing if not a renaissance man. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont on a fencing scholarship but dropped out to enlist in the Army for the Vietnam War. While laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed, he taught himself upside-down, left-handed slide guitar. He worked as a truck driver, a forklift operator, a saw mill hand, a funeral officiator and at times as a small-time criminal. Due to the latter vocation, he fled Boston to lay low in Oklahoma where he farmed watermelons, hence his stage name. He’s earned two undergrad degrees along with a master's. He painted art and briefly joined Mensa. Oh, and he likes to read Shakespeare and bowls a steady 240.
Direct-to-disc (D2D) recording refers to sound recording methods that record audio directly onto analog disc masters bypassing steps as master tapes, overdubs, and mix downs from multi-tracked masters. This approach avoids problems of analog recording tape such as tape hiss (high frequency noise).
Ratings:
Discogs : 3 / 5