Join us at the Bay St. Louis Little Theatre for ‘A Mississippi Delta Blues Experience’ with HeavyDrunk Band featuring Watermelon Slim!
William Homans III and Rob Robinson are Watermelon Slim and Heavydrunk. With over 20 albums respectively to their credits, these guys have been singing, playing and living the blues for decades..
Robinson is a restaurateur from Mississippi who dabbles in music with his nine-piece band Heavydrunk. Watermelon Slim is a multiple award-winning bluesman who now resides in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
After a successful European run in 2024, HeavyDrunk & Watermelon Slim are ready as ever to put on a great show for us, down on the Gulf Coast! They are bringing the full 4 piece band down from the Delta ~
“Watermelon Slim is the most exciting and authentic blues performer I’ve heard in years.” A.W., Paste Magazine
2x Winner: 2008 Blues Music Award Band of the Year and Album of the Year
2x Winner: 2006 & 2007 MOJO Magazine’s #1 Blues Album of the Year
Winner: 6th Annual Independent Music Awards Blues Album of the Year
Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans has built a remarkable reputation with his raw, impassioned intensity. HARP Magazine wrote “From sizzling slide guitar…to nitty-gritty harp blowing…to a gruff, resonating Okie twang, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of life, a bottle of hooch in his pocket, and the Bible on the passenger seat.” Paste Magazine writes “He’s one hell of a bottleneck guitarist, and he’s got that cry in his voice that only the greatest singers in the genre have had before him.”
“Watermelon Slim is the Tom Waits of the Mississippi Delta” – Doug Page
This KILLER four piece blues band from North Mississippi is going to rock the house on Saturday, May 10th! See y’all at the Little Theatre. Advanced tickets are $25. Tickets can be found under the ‘Tickets’ tab.