Slim and The Soulful Saints

Montgomery, AL, funk outfit Slim and the Soulful Saints formed in early 1970. According to Eothen Alapatt's profile in the summer 2005 issue of Wax Poetics, guitarist Stanford "Slim" Barnes first teamed with tenor saxophonist Lorenzo "Fish" Fendley over a decade earlier in a Red Level, AL-based R&B group led by local music veteran Willie Charles "Henry" Perry before parting ways when Fendley entered the military. Bassist Willie Pettaway, organist Al Stringer, tenor saxophonist George Williams, trumpeters Avery "Handsome" Beavers and Wilbert Jackson, and drummer Donnie "Champ" ...