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Location/Album: London Jazz Fest, London, UK - Quebec, CA - Northampton, MA, USA - Millers Falls, MA, USA - New Hampshire, USA Date: Multiple/ Latest Date: May 2015 Reviewer: The Phantom MXX Bleu Underground and Tsu Ng Backing/Headlining Band: Ottomatic Slim
"Everyone Wants it! Ottomatic Slim Has it!" "IT . . . THE Front Porch Americana Roots Blues. The True Americans, The Originators of the Blues Culture call it home. Many tried to Borrow It, Steal It. The urban glean. They couldn't play what they Heard and Loved so they changed the form of what the originators had to Fight to play in bars and clubs with windows covered or blacked out. I say "It" is True Grit! That Smoky, Heavy, Raw, in-your-face Rock-Blues! With No Excuses! And Ottomatic Slim not only has It, he gets It! "It"...Just Is! I have only one question "Who can touch the sound that is Ottomatic Slim?" So far I have only one, but very forward Answer - No one, yet! A True grit of his own, but with that same, raunchy, grinding, greasy, dirty harp playing sound. His is a sound others try to mimic, as they have often tried to mimic the founders of the craft! Few come close but very few, if any compare. Go and Listen to what "it's" Really supposed to sound like!" "Seeing Ottomatic Slim at the London Jazz Fest was The Best Thing I Could have Experienced!" - Tsu Ng. X - US / Shanghai / UK (Review from April 2015 - MXX Phantom Bleu Underground Underdog / CO / UK) www.mxxbleunderdog.co "What one does not understand, One fears and will Destroy." - (Chief Dan George)
*After many years and thousands of reviews of the what The Phantom refers to as Underdog Performers. The band or artist who is consistently, and sometimes purposely overlooked, and kept down by so called "fellow artists", those artists with contracts or labels, who are afraid of the Underdog's, as they are gifted, true, soulful, artists who were born with this rare raw talent. The Phantom and his team will be finishing their world touring reviews in Australia, March 2016. We hope our reviews have helped promote awareness of the Underdog Artists all over the world! Thank you for sharing your art with and making the world a funkier place! -Peace, The Phantom, Bleu Underground Underdog, MXX and Tsu Ng
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Ottomatic Slim / Otto Lenz- Quebec Maximum Blues Festival Photo Property of Ottomatic Slim
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