Merry Airbrakes ST06 on St George International 1973 Autographed By Bill Homans
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Mar 11, 2016 Sold Date
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Rare Original Release Merry Airbrakes ST06 on St George International 1973 Autographed By Bill Homans

The album was recorded for private use only to attract attention of big companies but strangely enough failed to do so. 

The first recording project to feature Homans was Merry Airbrakes, an album recorded and released on a small label in 1973 after returning from a tour of duty in Vietnam. Homans had become, after his return home, involved with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the album had songs with lyrics reflecting drug use, spiritual exploration, and involvement with the emotional cost of fighting "enemies." The album, originals of which are now highly collectible, has been re-released.  Raw psych with bluesy touch from these NAM veteran, actually the first post-vietnam record. Amazing songs, one of which was stolen by Country Joe Mc Donald. Great vocals by Bill Homans. Some songs sound like early BEEFHEART, other are fragile and beautiful. A biography on the Allmusic website, written by Steve Leggett, reads: "Watermelon Slim (his real name is Bill Homans) was born in Boston but raised in North Carolina, where, he says, he was first exposed to the blues at the age of five. He sang in choirs and glee clubs as a child, but he began seriously turning to music after a tour of duty in Vietnam that ended in 1970. He independently released the furiously antiwar album Merry Airbrakes in 1973. Although he has spent most of his adult life as a blue-collar laborer (mostly as a truck driver), Homans still found a whole lot of time for academia, earning degrees in history and journalism from the University of Oregon and a master's degree in history from Oklahoma State University. He founded a blues band, Fried Okra Jones, in the late '90s and has fronted them ever since with his raw, impassioned blues singing, harp playing, and impressive National Steel guitar style (which he plays left-handed). His songs feature subtle, intelligent twists (he is a member of MENSA, after all) while remaining undeniably in the blues tradition. Following a serious heart attack, Watermelon Slim turned his attention full-time to music, releasing two albums on Southern Records, Big Shoes to Fill in 2003 and Up Close & Personal in 2004. Assembling a new band, the Workers, he released the hard-hitting and impressive Watermelon Slim & the Workers in 2006 on the Toronto-based Northern Blues label, following it a year later with The Wheel Man and with No Paid Holidays in 2008. He then switched gears just a little into country territory with an album of truck driving songs, Escape from the Chicken Coop, which Northern Blues released in 2009."


Tracklist

1 Vigilante Man 2 Frog Song 3 The Bearded Man 4 Quang Tri City 5 Even Those Among Us 6 Draft Board Blues 7 Three Hearts 8 A Happy Song For Hanoi 9 Preacher Song 10 Tribute To Frankie

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