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Lynwood Slim (born Richard Dennis Duran, August 19, 1953, Los Angeles, California) is an American blues harmonica player and singer.
Biography
Slim started playing the trumpet at age 12. He started to play harmonica when he was 15. His early influences include Jimmy Reed, Little Walter and Big Walter Horton. He played the Los Angeles music scene then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1977. He became a major force on the music scene, winning awards for best blues band in 1986.
Slim moved to Amsterdam, Holland in 1988, returned to Los Angeles later that same year. He started working with Junior Watson, as well as Hollywood Fats Band alumni Larry Taylor, Fred Kaplan and Richard Innes. He started playing the flute after listening to James Moody and Herbie Mann.
Lynwood Slim is best known as a singer in the style of smooth easy jazz/blues as well as his harmonica and flute playing as well. Recording credits include a number of solo CD's as well as 35 to 40 as guest performer, producer, engineer, arranger and song writer. Slim currently is a signed to Delta Groove, an independent blues label based in Van Nuys, California. He has toured and recorded in the United States as well as Europe, South America and Australia.
