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Fillmore Slim, “The West Coast Godfather of the Game” and blues vocalist/guitarist (check out his card in the Blues section on your next....

Despite that boast, make no mistake about it: Fillmore Slim is definitely the Mack Daddy of the blues, too.

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Fillmore Slim, “The West Coast Godfather of the Game” and blues vocalist/guitarist (check out his card in the Blues section on your next.

This is a true showman, and he gives his all in all of his performances.

IS I BEGAN my research for this book, I ex- pected to find that Millard Fillmore was a weak and pompous.

Fillmore Slim

American blues vocalist, guitarist and pimp

Musical artist

Clarence Sims (born November 7, 1934), best known by his stage name, Fillmore Slim, is an American blues vocalist and guitarist with five albums to his credit.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he was also a known pimp in San Francisco,^[1] referred to several times as "The West Coast Godfather of the Game" and "The Pope of Pimping".^[2]

Early life

Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, Fillmore began learning about the blues at an early age.

"I done lived the blues," he once said in an interview. "The blues is about picking cotton, working in the fields, living in the streets, and you know I did all these things."^[1]

In 1955, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career, playing by himself in the street and later starting a band called Eddy N and The Blues Slayers.

During this time he had a relationship with Etta James before she achieved her fame as