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 1969
Born in Linköping, Sweden.
1991
Discovered the country blues of Son House, Big Joe Williams, Fred McDowell and
Robert Johnson. Started to learn to play slideguitar and sing the blues.
1994
Took the stagename Slidin’ Slim and began to work with pianoplayer Fredrik ”Big Fred” Östergren.
Played his first bluesgig at the legendary bluesclub Jefferson in Linköping.
Another highlight was a gig together with Bluesväder (that later changed name to Knock-Out Greg and Blue
Weather) at Skitiga Duken in Stockholm.
1995
Released his first recording ”How blue can a young man get?” (JJM01MC) that consisted of 6 classic
countryblues tunes played solo. Started to play full-time together with guitarist David Book with
whom he made his bluesfestival debut in Mönsterås.
1996
Released his second recording ”Going down slow” (JJM02MC) with acoustic countryblues and electric
Chicagoblues. Among the players was David Book and Big Fred. Joined forces with established bluesmusicians
(harmonica/guitarplayer Lasse Olsson from the Nightcats, drummer Roger Mörck, bassplayer
Magnus Ekman and guitarist Ari Hautala) and formed The Jungle Kings. Released the
recording ”Introducing The Jungle Kings” (JJM03). Toured and played at festivals in Järfälla,
Mönsterås and Åmål. Due to geographical reasons the Jungle Kings disbanded later same year.
1997
Started a new band, Little Slim & The Roadmasters together with Ari Hautala, bassplayer Eric Troestler
and drummer Stefan Andersson. The material was mostly R&B and jump blues. Slim continued to play solo
and performed at the Rawa Bluesfestival in Katowice Poland. An event that was broadcasted on televison
for millions of viewers all over eastern Europé. Starts to focus more on his songwriting. Forms Mylla
(that mixes Swedish folkmusic with Deltablues) together with his wife Ann-Charlotte.
1998
Released ”I´ve had my fun” (JJM04CDEP) that consisted of 5 original songs written by Slim.
The music was a mix of alt.country and acoustic blues. Leaves Little Slim & The Roadmasters.
Starts to tour more with Big Fred again. Records a new CD-Ep during the summer with Big Fred,
”The stars come out at night”. Consists of 4 songs (2 originals by Slim).
1999
Tours a lot and plays at the festival in Järfälla with Big Fred and comes second playing solo in
Scandinavian Blues Contest in Mönsterås.
2000
Plays at festivals in Mönsterås, Åmål (together with Big Fred) and Östersund. Continues to tour all
over Sweden. Gets back together with David Book, Eric Troestler and drummer Kjell-Åke Eriksson to form
the bluesband Slim Baker´s Combo. Also spends a lot of time writing songs for an alt.country project
called Parkland.
2001
Works a lot with Slim Bakers Combo but the tragic death of drummer Kjell-Åke Eriksson puts the band on a
hiatus. Starts to work on a recording with Parkland together with producer, drummer Johan Adegren,
bassplayer Per Nordh, guitarist Jocke Svensson (Mole Train) and Big Fred. Slim Baker returns later
same year with new drummer Daniel Bergström from The Resonators and begin to tour. Slim plays solo at
Östersunds Bluesfestival among a lot of other dates.
2002
Releases the Parkland – Ep ”Wind up working at a gasstation”. Continues to work both solo, with
Slim Baker´s Combo and with the new evil rock-duo Busty Blondes (together with Johan Adegran).
Records a 3 song CD-single with Busty. Plays at festivals in Mönsterås and Östersunds solo. Later
same year Slim decides to leave both Parkland and Slim Baker´s Combo.
2003
Takes some time off from playing live during winter and spring and starts to study musicproduction
at the University of Linköping. Works hard on writing songs. Goes back to solo performing during
the summer and plays at festivals in Åmål, Lysekil, Umeå and Östersund among a lot of clubdates.
Also works a lot with Mylla and plays at Linköpings folkmusicfestival.
2004
Starts the year with signing a publishing deal with Sweden Songs. Begins to write songs for his first
full-lenght CD. Works hard with the recording of the CD together with Big Fred. Mylla begins to work
with bassplayer Nicklas Brännström and drummer Krister Persson and plays at Linköpings folkmusicfestival
among other places. In November the CD with Big Fred, ”Ten Long Years”, is released on No Budget Records.
10 out of 11 songs are originals. The record gets great reviews and soon recieve airplay in countries
like Denmark, Germany, France and Holland among other contries around the world.
2005
Thanks to the release of ”Ten long years” things move fast for Slidin’ Slim. More great reviews and the CD gets airplay all over the planet. The CD is now available worldwide through CD Baby. More gigs than ever too. Nordic Jazz & Bluesfestival, Åmåls Bluesfestival, Norrtälje Bluesfestival, Malmöfestivalen, Östersunds Bluesfestival, Mojo Bluesclub in Copenhagen, Denmark and visits to blues societies in Lidköping and Tranås to mention a few gigs.
The concerts in Tranås results in a live CD – "One man, a whole lotta blues". Great reviews for that one too and more gigs, puh...
What a year!
2006
Being the classic workaholic type Slim continues to work hard. Together with his wife he begins the work with the debut CD for Mylla that change name to Skallbom. A busy winter and spring follows with recording, playing gigs at Crossroads 15:th anniversary, Karlskoga Bluesfestival, Linköpings Jazz & Bluesfestival and many more places. He receives Great Jazz Clubs Blues Prize 2006 for his work in the blues field. In May Skallbom's record “Ack, ack” is finished and released. The song Brand new face (from "Ten long years") becomes one of 6 songs to make it to the finals in the international song contest Blues Heritage Song Contest. Slim travels to Backa Jazz festival, outside Helsinki in Finland, and performs this song and one more. He has great time meeting the other 5 artists; Hattie Wilcox (USA), Barry McCabe (Irland), Mike Andersen (Denmark), Ras Smaila (Nigeria) and David Brewer (USA).
After a long vacation he starts the fall of 2006 concentrating on writing songs for a brand new record that is planned to be released early 2007.
2007
Slidin Slim:
“-I’ve been very fortunate as a musician since I first began my journey down the blues road back in 1991. Each and every year has given me wonderful experiences that I wouldn’t trade for anything but 2007 might be the best musical year ever. I began the year with the recording of my latest CD “One man riot” together with producer Niels Nielsen. Thanks to Barry McCabe I played some dates in The Netherlands and had a great time. To meet and to do some jamming with the legendary Mick Taylor from The Rolling Stones was quite a thrill too. During the summer I played a bunch of Swedish blues festivals like Åtvidaberg, Uddevalla and Åmål but I can’t deny that my very first US tour was the event of the summer. To have “One man riot” released by the great US record label Nine Mile Records have changed a lot in my career as blues musician and I’m really grateful and glad that they support me in the grand way they do. During the fall I did a some club gigs as well as my annual appearance at the great blues festival in Östersund. I’ve also teamed up with some great backing musicians like drummer Krister Persson, bassplayer Nicklas Brännström and guitar/multiinstrumentalist Niels Nielsen. Looking forward to some heavy touring during 2008 together with these guys as well as my usual solo gigs.”
“One man riot” received some great reviews during the year and will be promoted towards the Scandinavian and European market in 2008.
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