Sarasota Slim - Get Up, Get Down!

Album: Get Up, Get Down!
Size: 124,0 MB
Time: 53:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front, back, cd

1. Get Up, Get Down (4:30)
2. Down Home (5:38)
3. Mean Woman (4:27)
4. Play To Win (5:25)
5. All Kinda Blues (3:03)
6. Boogie Down Low (6:05)
7. Hungry Man (3:15)
8. Plan B (6:49)
9. Titty Walk (4:22)
10. Last Minute Slim (5:10)
11. Hey Dwight (4:51)

Like Tampa Red, Sarasota Slim wears his hometown pride on his sleeve. Born Gene Hardage, Slim has been part of the Tampa Bay blues scene for decades, and was part of the group called the Gulf Coast Blues Society that helped establish the best weekly blues jam in the Tampa Bay area, the Monday night shindig at the Green Iguana on West Shore Blvd. in Tampa.

In the '80s, Slim was a bandmate of Lucky Peterson, who went on to become well known in the international blues scene, while Slim kept living around here, helping build the local blues scene. He performed often with local bluesman Rock Bottom, and he’s still a regular at local blues festivals and rock concerts. His breed of the blues is highly influenced by classic R&B and soul, with some boogie-woogie thrown in for good measure.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

Get Up, Get Down! mc
Get Up, Get Down! zippy

---

Sarasota Slim - Boney Fingers

Size: 122.1 MB
Time: 53:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. I'm Gonna Get You (3:50)
02. Booty Boomerang - (Send) (5:22)
03. Out-O-Sight (6:25)
04. Swing Thing (4:40)
05. I Found Out (5:22)
06. I Want To Know (5:27)
07. Call My Name (4:56)
08. Meet Me When The Stars Come Out (4:18)
09. Booty Boomerang - (Return) (5:07)
10. A Child Could See It (2:50)
11. Calypso Joe (4:59)

Gene Hardage aka Sarasota Slim, who grew up in Sarasota, is as authentic and talented as they come, having worked/ toured with Lucky Peterson (1988+) and earning his "Sarasota Slim" nickname from Rock Bottom (with whom he played, in The Jungle Bushmasters and The Cuttaways). Internationally acclaimed, Hardage released four albums on Italian label Appaloosa throughout the 1990s, and toured Europe. He also started (with the now-defunct Gulf Coast Blues Society) the long-running Monday night blues jam at Tampa's Green Iguana. Hardage calls on a changeable collection of musicians for livperformances and recording, including keyboards and backup vocalists to augment standard guitar, bass and drums.

Boney Fingers MP3
Boney Fingers FLAC

---

Sarasota Slim - Bourbon To Beale

Size: 108,1 MB
Time: 45:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Blues Rock, Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Bourbon To Beale (4:13)
02. Tin Pan Alley (4:58)
03. Things Ain't Going Right (5:24)
04. Light My Fuse (3:06)
05. Siesta Salsa (5:18)
06. Mistakes In The Game Of Love (3:12)
07. Cryin' For My Baby (2:29)
08. Go Underground (3:22)
09. I've Got Friends (4:08)
10. Last Night (3:29)
11. Diving Duck (2:52)
12. Party All Night (3:15)

Personnel:
Gene Hardage - Guitar, Dobro & Vocals
Samuel Alexander Mudd - Bass Guitar
Dennis McCarthy - Drums
Dean Germain - Piano & Organ
J.C. Tom Carr - Harmonica
Lucky Peterson - Piano (3)
Gregory Oravec - Bass (1,5,11)
Blind Willie James - Vocals (3,12)

'My name is Gene Hardage and I'm also known as Sarasota Slim. I'm a true Florida cracker - born in the panhandle and raised in Sarasota - and yes I am slim. I've been at this music stuff longer than I'd like to admit, luckily this makes me somewhat legendary in certain circles'. ~ Sarasota Slim

'Sarasota Slim is an amazing guitar player, part of the new breed of the big blues people. His blues always has a kind of soulful, even Southern rock-kind of feel to it'. ~ Larry Lisk

Bourbon To Beale

---

Sarasota Slim - Hungry Man

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:20
Size: 117.5 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 1996/2014
Art: Front

[3:21] 1. Lonely Room
[3:13] 2. Lucky Shuffle
[6:35] 3. As The Years Go Passing By
[2:47] 4. I'm Gonna Wring My Best Friend's Neck
[4:19] 5. Close To The Fire
[5:30] 6. Too Many Roads
[2:57] 7. Hungry Man
[3:25] 8. Spanish Sausage
[4:26] 9. Wrapped Un Up In Love Again
[3:59] 10. Rhumboogie
[3:06] 11. Shim Sham Shimmy
[5:17] 12. The Devil Came Down From Georgia
[2:18] 13. Nitro's Express

Gene Hardage aka Sarasota Slim, who grew up in Sarasota, is as authentic and talented as they come, having worked/ toured with Lucky Peterson (1988+) and earning his "Sarasota Slim" nickname from Rock Bottom (with whom he played, in The Jungle Bushmasters and The Cuttaways). Internationally acclaimed, Hardage released four albums on Italian label Appaloosa throughout the 1990s, and toured Europe. He also started (with the now-defunct Gulf Coast Blues Society) the long-running Monday night blues jam at Tampa's Green Iguana. Hardage calls on a changeable collection of musicians for livperformances and recording, including keyboards and backup vocalists to augment standard guitar, bass and drums.

Quote: "If only I could do what the rest of my contemporaries do, and that is to brag about some horrible brush with death and jail and, y'know, three kinds of drug addictions, and all kinds of the bad things that blues people are supposed to have, y'know, I would be really popular," Hardage joked.

Hungry Man mc
Hungry Man zippy

---