Big Creek Slim- Keep My Belly Full

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Big Creek Slim, a.k.a. Marc Rune, was born and raised in Ikast, a small town in Central Denmark. He traveled in the United States for a spell around 2008, playing music and writing songs. He now lives with his family in Florianopolis Brazil, in a cabin by the ocean.

On his latest cd he is joined by NATHAN JAMES & PETER NANDE who co-produced the sessions that make up this release of rural downhome blues & spirituals. Nande is an outstanding harp player and Nathan James is one of the bright lights of contemporary blues on guitar. Slim has a natural voice that carries the tumes which range from covers of classics to some real authentic originals......

So, why would a Danish musician find such a definitive personal connection in a music created by black Americans in the rural Southern reaches of the United States, thousands of miles from his home?

“In the old American blues, you hear a purity that you don´t find in music nowadays, not in contemporary blues and not in popular music at all,” Big Creek explains. “The first blues records are the first recorded sounds of an oppressed people. It´s a very important moment in the history of humankind. It surely opened my eyes and made me a more tolerant person toward the indifferences of human beings, and it taught me how to love myself. I guess that´s why I got to play them so bad.”.........

1. Bye Bye Blues

2. You Don't Love Me

3. Precious Memories

4. Keep My Belly Full

5. Woman Don't Lie

6. Alright Baby

7. Do Somebody Wrong

8. Tell Me Baby

9. Lonesome Day Blues

10. Cockfight

11. Sink 'Em Low

12. Mrs. Headache

13. Dry Spell Blues