Photos of Langhorne Slim at Club Helsinki in Hudson, NY on March 26th, 2017
Photos of Langhorne Slim at 2016 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, RI
Photos of Langhorne Slim at 2015 Outside Lands in San Francisco, CA
Photos of Langhorne Slim at 2015 Newport Folk Festival
Photos of Langhorne Slim at Southgate House Revival in Newport, KY on April 6th, 2014
Photos of Langhorne Slim at Radio Radio in Indianapolis, IN on July 21st, 2012
Photos of Langhorne Slim at Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY on June 14th, 2012
QRO’s review of Langhorne Slim at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn, NY on August 10th, 2008
Photos of Langhorne Slim at Sound Fix Records in Brooklyn, NY on June 1st, 2008
Langhorne Slim gives you just about everything that you’re looking for from alt-folk/country backwoods. He knows how to do the sad and intimate; he knows how to do the upbeat romp-stompers. He can do blues, he can do gospel, he can do folk. That’s maybe never been more the case than with The Spirit Moves.
Like other Slim records, Moves is largely split between the up-tempo and downbeat. The up-tempo pieces are more enjoyable, but purely because it’s more fun to be up than to be down. The title track, revival hepstepper “Strangers”, Suthron “Southern Bells”, and more all get not just the feet moving, but yes, also the spirit. Meanwhile, Slim can move the soul in his touching stripped down numbers like “Changes”, “Whisperin’”, and closer “Meet Again”.
With all of the interest today in the backwoods alt-country/folk, hopefully Langhorne Slim will get more attention, because he deserves it with records like The Spirit Moves.