Plainfield Slim

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Plainfield Slim is the blues alter ego of American singer, guitarist, and songwriter Gar Francis. He also records as Plainfield Slim & The Groundhawgs, plus he has been a member of The Doughboys since 2005 (whose song “Black Sheep” from their album “Is It Now?” was chosen by Little Steven’s Sirius radio show The Underground Garage as the #2 “Coolest Song In The World” for the year 2008) and a member of The Satisfactors since 2014. As well as solo projects under the Gar Francis name, there is Plainfield Slim & The Groundhawgs, a very raw, hypnotic, Mississippi type juke joint blues band. Band members include Lee Fink (from Nasty Ned and the Famous Chili Dogs) on slide guitar, fellow Doughboys Myke Scavone on harp, and Mike Caruso on bass, and Myke’s little brother Rocco Scavone on drums. Plainfield Slim & The Groundhawgs second CD “When The Devil Hits Home” came after “Another Mule In The Barn” the first Plainfield Slim album. Songs such as Dirty Girl, Moan, Hideout, Marlene, and Sweet Jesus have been receiving airplay around the world. For more information you can sample Plainfield Slim at http://www.myspace.com/plainfieldslim, http://www.myspace.com/Mopromo Or at CD Baby http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/plainfieldslim3. CD reviews “When The Devil Hits Home” “ The Voice of Original Garage Blues”- Mopromo, “Plainfield Slim works a Garage Blues so rich your pipes will glow blue”- “Gas Guzzlin’ Garage Blues” American Showplace Music, “It sounds like stew boiling when you first

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