In my distant youth, when I worked as a deejay in a 5-watt college radio station, I admired a greasy-haired, overweight, chronically intoxicated singer named Root Boy Slim — a grubby, gravel-voiced ...

“You wouldn’t believe how many times I got laid because of Root Boy Slim,” Al Hewgley says with a slight chuckle. Hewgley, a musician who lives in Rockledge, Fla., was a longtime fan of Root Boy Slim, ...

Show: Saturday at Bethesda Blues and Jazz. Show starts at 8 p.m. 240-330-4500. bethesdabluesjazz.com. $25 in advance, $35 at the door. With his anarchic presence and such tunes as "(You Broke My) Mood ...

Your anniversary column brought back memories though not necessarily romantic ones. I, too, was an admirer of Root Boy Slim and once had the good fortune to do a foner with him when I worked as a ...

This link leads you to the BEST cover of The Swingin' Medallions' "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" ever videotaped, perhaps the best over recorded. It was shot at at a frat house at the University of ...

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Root Boy Slim at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro in 1984. This News & Observer columnist frequently played his records as a college deejay at WSMC in St. Mary’s City, Maryland, never knowing that he was ...