Slim Dunlap is best known as the man who replaced Bob Stinson in The Replacements, when Bob was kicked out of the band for his addiction issues (as one record store employee said to me when I was 17... if your addiction issues are so bad that you're kicked out of The Replacements, you've got serious problems). Oh, Bob Stinson died at 35 in 1995.
Slim Dunlap played mostly with Minneapolis musician Curtis A. He was a janitor at First Avenue when Westerberg asked him to join The 'Mats, and he played on their last two albums.
This was his debut... he put out an equally cool second album two years later... and it captures the pure joy of a skilled musician who has finally been given free reign. I love this record. It has more joy in it than the final two Replacements albums.
It sounds like Exile-era Stones.
Slim suffered a stroke some years back, losing a lot of his motor skills. The Replacements reunited to put out an EP, Songs for Slim, to help him with his health care bills. Very cool.
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