This weeekend I'm defending Swedens honor at the annual European Blues Challenge in Berlin! I'm very happy that Jimmy Z is coming along to back me up! I promise to do my best!

http://www.bluesyou.com/ebc-2012.html

There are certain things I will remember more from 2011. Getting the Janne Rosenqvists Memorial prize, the tours with Magda Piskorczyk and Jimmy Z, all the festivals (I love 'em all but SWEDEN ROCK was something new and very exciting!) I played , the re-release of One man Riot through Transubstans Records, the great reviews AND to see “One man Riot” selling enough to get on the Swedish “Billboard” (a very rare achievement for a blues CD) made 2011 a fabulous year.

There's a lot of people I work with (musicians, booking agencies, media, producers, clubs & festivals) who made this year an outstanding one. I can't thank you all enough for your contributions. You know how much I appreciate you all. THANK YOU!

I must address a special thank you to all the people I have met at concerts and festivals, that I interact with at my website and Facebook. Please keep coming up for chat after gigs or sending me messages and mails. We're in this together!

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And, without the support from my family nothing of all this would be possible. I love you forever!

2012

I have a feeling that 2012 gonna be another great year. The great Jimmy Z and I will keep touring and we already got a couple of big festivals booked. Niels Nielsen and I will continue working in the studio and hopefully this will result in a new CD during the first part of 2012. I also have a couple of "just for the fun of it" recording projects that I wanna do. My solo acoustic punkblues tribute to my all time favorite DEAD KENNEDYS is one thing I really wanna do! Stay tuned for more info about that one and other stuff too. In March I'll be going to the EUROPEAN BLUES CHALLENGE in Berlin! Please go there and support me! If I win I'll buy you all beer!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year with a brand new special Christmas song (free downloads too) that I recorded together with Big Fred and Jimmy Z. Enjoy!

BLUE CHRISTMAS - Slidin' Slim & Big Fred featuring Big Fred

Slidin' Slim

Hi y'all!

It's been a while! Being a ”one-man business” is not easy and it's has been hectic in the best of ways. I'm working hard in the studio with the very talented Niels Nielsen and I'm very excited about how things has developed during the last couple of weeks. More about that later.

But the big thing right now is of course the new tour with the legendary Jimmy Z. We're hitting the road Wednesday and the first gig will take place in at Crescendo in Norrköping and keep touring through most of October.. Check out a gig near you at my website. By the way, we will do a couple of clinics as well during the tour if you wanna learn some cool harp licks or some sizzlin' slide!

Thanks for your support and see you there!

Slim

Slidin’ Slim – One Man Riot Review

“They call me Mr. Misfit, and that’s a suitable name” – Slidin’ Slim “One Man Riot” Album Review

Written by Ian Gerber for The Soda Shop

Let me tell you right off of the back, I am not the biggest fan of Metal. I love heavy music as much as the next tatooed white guy with a beard, but there is a lot of metal out there and I only have so much time to really dig into a record. With that being said, imagine my surprise to find a record labeled “Blues” in the genre column from the stocked buffet of stoner metal and doom that is The Soda Shop’s submissions folder. Slidin’ Slims newest record, One Man Riot, might be a misfit in the Stoner rock crowd, but is armed to the gills with 14 tracks of geniune and gritty blues mojo that would sound great to anyone with an ear or two.

Let’s get to brass tacks. I think that we can all agree that there would be no “Stoner Rock” without Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin would have been up shit’s creek without the blues. Whether it takes 52 minutes of amplified sonic destruction or 12 bars and five notes on an acoustic guitar, a heavy riff is a heavy riff. Slidin’ Slim understands this idea much better than most musicians playing music today, let alone in Stoner Rock.

As it turns out, ol’ Slim has been doing it for a while…in Sweden. That’s right folks, the most convincing blues revivalist that I have heard since Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, is from a place that is about as far away as you can get from Mississippi and still know what a guitar is. I have heard other Swedish acoustic blues “revivalists”, but none of them have actually got it right. However, it is good to know that “going down the road feeling bad” translates into every language.

Sonically speaking, One Man Riot deserves to be mentioned in the same company as the best sounding Tom Waits and T-Bone Burnett records. Sorry metal dudes, not so much of the fuzz and gutteral growling to found here. However, One Man Riot does have a tendecency to take un-expected turns into Sonic Youth meets Nick Cave moments of brilliant ambience mixed in with the dark Americana story telling of Murder By Death’s “Red of Tooth And Claw.”. It can be said that Slidin’ Slim knows what he is doing in the studio. It is also fair to say that Slim has heard his fair share of Son House and R.L. Burnside riffs after he outgrew his punk phase and decided to learn how to play guitar for real. Bare boned slide guitar and smoky vocals that just wreak of too much whiskey give way to beautifully dark psychedelic atmospheres while still nimbly playing within the borders of “the Blues” form. Slidin’ Slim does it with the skill of a great songwriter and makes it look easy.

Do yourself a big ol’ favor and buy a copy of One Man Riot. When it seems like all you have been hearing is fuzz in stereo for longer than expected, throw this record on and take a minute on the couch to digest it. This is as heavy as anything I have heard in the last few months and deserves to be in constant rotation on your Ipod.

One Man Riot can be downloaded on ITunes.

Check out The Soda Shop:

http://thesodashop.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/slidin-slim-one-man-riot-review/

Buy my CD:

http://www.recordheaven.net/index.cfm?x=browseArtist&ID=22652&iID=110317&sc=&ob=tl&so=ASC&pp=50&pn=1&sl=false

THE JIMMY Z TOUR 2011

This time we just did a short tour but what a tour it was! We played at Berggrens Källare in Motala (where David Stockman, Göran Persson and Big Fred joined and provided solid back-up during the second set), Skål in Stockholm (organized by Stockholm Blues Society),  super cool club Rockland in Sala and Dusty Road Blues Festival in Tidaholm.  Each and every gig was fantastic and the reactions and support from audiences everywhere was totally amazing.  We got a good thing going with our duo that’s for sure. We would like to send out a BIG thank you to DP Agency that put together the tour , the clubs and a festivals that booked us AND all the great and wonderful people we met (and bought our CD!!!) during our days on the road! We will get out there again late September. See you then!

BACK FOR MORE

Jimmy Z’s and my new CD are available at Itunes, Amazon among other downloading sites. We’re very pleased with the way this CD turned out. If you like acoustic blues with lots of slide and the “one of a kind” harmonica of Jimmy Z you’re gonna love it. Check it out on Itunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/se/album/back-for-more/id441516846

SWEDEN ROCK & THE RE-RELEASE OF ONE MAN RIOT

Tomorrow I'm going to Sweden Rock! I will hit the ROCKKLASSIKER stage on Friday at 12.15! I'm very sorry to say that re-release of One man riot won't be available at the festival due to some delays in the manufacturing BUT I will bring some T-shirts and promo-CD's that I will give away for FREE! You can pre-order the CD here:

http://www.recordheaven.net/index.cfm?x=browseArtist&ID=22652&iID=110317&sc&ob=tl&so=ASC&pp=50&pn=1&sl=false

Slim

Slim

http://slidinslim.bandcamp.com

I'm booked to play at Sweden Rock Festival! This is one of the biggest festivals in Sweden and I'm very proud to be booked. This year got a great line-up with Ozzy Osborne, Whitesnake, Joan Jett, The Cult, Thin Lizzy, Accept, Saxon among many others.  I will play at the Rockklassiker stage and join other acoustic acts like Mats Ronander, Claes Yngström, Bob Log III and Nicke Borg (Backyard Babies).

Click here for more info!

See you there!

Slim

The polish radio show BLUES ATTACK, hosted by the one and only Victor Czura, will do a "Slidin' Slim" special on the 28:th of April. Cool!

I got myself a record deal with Record Heaven/Transubstans Records!!!

http://www.transubstans.com

I'm happy to join a great roster of amazing acts like Abramis Brama, Brutus, Graveyard, Oblivious and Sideburn. Being their first more traditional blues signing feels cool and it's great to be in the company of some of the heavy bands mentioned above as I'm a big fan of classic hard rock. 

We're really looking forward to a long term co-operation and hope that we will be able to bring my music to a new audience worldwide.

First out is a re-release in late May of "One man riot" with two new bonus tracks and, finally, a new studio record (produced by the amazing Niels Nielsen) will be released early fall.

More news will follow soon.

Slim

JANNE ROSENVISTS MINNESPRIS 2011 TILL SLIDIN’ SLIM

 Sveriges finaste pris inom bluesmusik har för 2011 gått till Slidin’ Slim, framröstad av tidskriften Jeffersons läsare med motiveringen:

”Linköpingsbördige Anders Landelius, mera känd under artistnamnet Slidin’ Slim, har verkat på den svenska bluesscenen sedan mitten av 1990-talet. Han har profilerat sig som en sångare och akustisk gitarrist och med rötterna i deltabluesen, men med en fräsch och orädd attityd till den gamla traditionen. Anders har med deltabluesen i botten gått vidare och skapat egna låtar där han smält samman influenser från de gamla bluesmästarna med ett närmast punkigt anslag. Hans musik har under årens lopp fört honom till en rad olika länder och även uppmärksammats i USA, där hans låt Please Tell Me har spelats i en TV-serie på den nationella tv-kanalen NBC. Anders har också samarbetat med och ordnat turnéer med flera internationella artister”