Slim Kings can rock

One tho give learned going to concerts for nearly 40 years is that you never know what to expect from an opening act.

More often than not, they are mediocre. But sometimes they surprise you and they make you want to see them again.

That’s what happened tonight with a little rock ‘n’ roll act out of Brooklyn called the Slim Kings. The four-piece band, which features the legendary Liberty DeVito on drums, can flat-out play. The half dozen or so songs they ran through were blues based, revved up and loud. And they made me want to buy their record. And that is the highest praise anyone can give an opening band.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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