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Sorry: this show is no longer taking place as the
UK tour has been cancelled.
JAMES
'SLIM' HAND plus support
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TUES.
22nd APRIL 2008
Doors
8:00pm
Pressure Point, Richmond
Place, BN2 9NA
Tickets £8.50 adv from Resident/Rounder/ We Got
Tickets (soon enough!)
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He's
back!! After performing to the last ever Gilded Palace crowd at the Hanbury
in 2006, JAMES 'SLIM' HAND returns to the UK. There was
at least one person in attendance who claimed that the last show was "the
best gig I have ever seen". The pronouncement was
made some days later, sober - and he was no youngster, either, so he's
seen his fair share of shows too. With band members named Will Indian,
Speedy Sparks and Rusty Trapps, how could it have been anything less than
eventful?
James 'Slim' Hand put out what was his first properly released album in
2006 - at the tender age of 54! He had a whirlwind year following its
release - touring the UK twice (once with DALE WATSON)
and picking up accolades from the likes of MARK LAMAAR
and BOB HARRIS along the way.
He's been perfecting the songs that made up The Truth Will Set You Free
(Rounder) around the bars and honky-tonk clubs of his native Texas - not
to mention living out some of the source material for the lyrics.
An incredibly humble (spiritual, even) man, James is courtesy personified
both onstage and off. He never seeks the adulation that some younger artists
may feel is theirs by right - they could learn a lot from him! Truck driver,
horse trainer, bare-back rider: all of these jobs have set him up to realise
nothing should be taken for granted.
So, what of the songs? WILLIE NELSON famously refers
to Hand as "the real deal" and comparisons with his idols
LEFTY FRIZZELL and HANK WILLIAMS are not far
wide of the mark - even if they do elicit an 'aww, shucks' humility from
the man himself. Here he is being interviewed on NPR last year: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5498117
(it's heart-wrenching, honest stuff)
No, honestly, his tunes are that good - the lyrical density of
a song like (say) Little Bitty Slip (references to Kipling - in a honky-tonk
song?!), the pathos in Shadows Where The Magic Was; these and many others
illustrate his accomplished craft - and we haven't even started on the
infectious dancing music that accompanies them.
The Pressure Point is in for one heck of a party tonight!
http://www.jamesslimhand.com
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