Fillmore Slim
They call him the West Coast Godfather of the Game: Fillmore Slim opened for B.B. King and Dinah Washington at the original Fillmore and ran with a young Etta James before the world knew her name. Born Clarence Sims in Baton Rouge in 1934, he cut the jump blues classic You Got the Nerve of a Brass Monkey, then lived the story the Hughes Brothers filmed in their 1999 documentary American Pimp.
The blues won him back: a West Coast Blues Hall of Fame induction in 2008, the Lowell Fulson Jus’ Blues Award in 2011, and a stage presence nobody else alive can match. At 91, the man who named himself after Fillmore Street is still telling San Francisco’s story in two sets. Nights like this do not come twice.
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