This Date in Music – August 7, 1937 – Blues Guitarist Magic Slim was born!!
On this date August 7th in 1937, Morris Holt, better known as Magic Slim was born at Torrance, near Grenada, Mississippi. Magic Slim followed Muddy Water and Howlin’ Wolf to Chicago and became a force in the Chicago blues scene. I discovered his music when I started the blog Me, Myself, Music and Mysteries. Here’s my post about Magic Slim from 2o1o…..after this post Slim released one more album Bad Boy (2012) prior to his passing in February of 2013. From Wikipedia…. Slim died at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 21, 2013 at age 75. He had health problems that…