Though he was never one of the major star names of the blues rock scene in the
1980s and 90s, Magic Slim was an authentic, raw force on the Chicago live
circuit for over 40 years, and was renowned for his booming, barking delivery
and slick-toned grooves. Born in Torrance, Mississippi in 1937, Morris Holt
first started playing the piano as a child but lost a finger on his right hand
in an accident with a cotton separating machine and was forced to take up the
guitar instead.
Given his nickname Magic Slim by childhood friend Magic Sam, he worked in the
cotton fields in Grenad...