Magic Slim
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Morris Holt, known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist. Born at Torrance, near Grenada, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers, he followed blues greats such as Muddy Waters and H
Magic Slim at the Chicago Blues Festival, 2008
Magic Slim in 1980
Juke joint
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Juke joint is the African-American vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United St
Magic Slim
…interested in playing bass. By 1965 he was back in Chicago and in 1970 Nick joined him in his band, the Teardrops. They played in the dim, smoke-filled juke joints popular in Chicago in the 1970s on bandstands barely large enough to hold the musicians. Slim's recording career began in 1966 with the song "Scufflin…
Exterior of a juke joint in Belle Glade, Florida, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1941
Dancing at a juke joint outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1939
Label of 78-rpm gramophone record of "Livery Stable Blues – Fox Trot" (1917)