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Like Tampa Red, Sarasota Slim wears his hometown pride on his sleeve. Born Gene Hardage, Slim has been part of the Tampa Bay blues scene for decades, and was part of the group called the Gulf Coast Blues Society that helped establish the best weekly blues jam in the Tampa Bay area, the Monday night shindig at the Green Iguana on West Shore Blvd. in Tampa. In the '80s, Slim was a bandmate of Lucky Peterson, who went on to become well known in the international blues scene, while Slim kept living around here, helping build the local blues scene....

Lawrence Fuller AKA Meta was born January 19th, 1981 in Munster, Indiana and raised in Brooklyn, New York by a working father and a minister mother, Meta was introduced to and involved in music at a very young age. After moving to Minnesota at the age of 8 Meta’s mother became the minister of music at Pilgrim Baptist Church in St. Paul and it is there growing up listening to the Sounds of Blackness where Meta got his musical start. At age 9, he was cast in the Sounds Of Blackness play, “Let The Children Sing.” A quiet, yet outgoing...