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Fillmore Slim
Experience world-class blues, dinner, and drinks — all in one intimate setting.
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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Slim came west from Louisiana in the 1950s and pulled his stage name straight off the Fillmore Street sign. After decades away from music he returned with Born to Sing the Blues in 1987, recorded for Fedora Records, and became a fixture of the city's blues revival. Expect gritty vocals, sharp suits, and stories no one else can tell, delivered by the last of the true Fillmore originals.