Music like this gets harder to find by the day. Magic Slim & the Teardrops’ tag as “the last real Chicago blues band” may be a bit of an exaggeration — but not by much. And the label gathers more ...

The Slim side of Morris Holt’s moniker is off by a hundred pounds or more, but the Magic part is sure enough accurate, especially if you go by dictionary definitions No. 3 (the exercise of sleight of ...

FARGO - The lineup has been announced for the 13th annual Fargo Winter Blues Fest on Feb. 9. Chicago guitarist Magic Slim & the Teardrops headlines the evening with a 9 p.m. set. He previously played ...

Born and raised in Mississippi, Morris "Magic Slim" Holt moved to Chicago in the ’50s to pursue a career in blues music and never looked back. Magic Slim’s electric guitar and vocals are pure blues ...

Magic Slim & The Teardrops are #1 on the Blues Power Rankings, the weekly recap of the most played albums at blues radio stations from around the world. Raising The Bar has been in the upper reaches ...

Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, died Thursday. He was 75. He died shortly after midnight ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guitarist Magic Slim, a mainstay of the Chicago blues scene who followed in the footsteps of such greats as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, died on Thursday at age 75, his ...

The road from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago has been traversed by many blues artists. Since after World War II, movers and shakers such as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf brought the down-home sound ...