Magic Slim Records Live CD & DVD

LOS ANGELES (Blind Pig Records/ www.blindpigrecords.com) - Magic Slim and the Teardrops, renowned as one of the world's top bands playing authentic Chicago blues, have taped performances at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, California for release on CD and DVD by Blind Pig Records.

Recorded in February, the live album and video are entitled Anything Can Happen, and will be released on August 16, 2005. Producer Peter Berkow has a number of credits for TV programs on PBS, and he has helmed a half dozen live concert programs as part of the "Sierra Center Stage" series airing on PBS.

Magic Slim and the Teardrops won the 2003 W.C. Handy Award for "Blues Band of the Year," and Living Blues magazine has called them "a national treasure." Miles Jordan, in a concert review in the Chico News & Review, wrote of the taping, "Blues fans got a heavy dose of the real deal Sunday night...A powerful singer and guitarist, Magic Slim (a.k.a. Morris Holt), along with his band (Jon McDonald, rhythm guitar/vocals; Chirs Biedon, bass; and Vernell Taylor, drums), adroitly mixed tempos between medium and uptempo items and such serious belly-rubbing songs as Muddy Waters' 'Still A Fool' and his own 'Crazy Woman.'" Referring to another tune, Jordan continued, "McDonald took a terrific solo, his smoother style in sharp contrast to Holt's raw-edged approach. Holt is no slouch either, and proved it in spades on 'Goin' to Mississippi,' where he dug into a solo that really got the crowd going."