Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Magic Slim, who helped formulate the Chicago electric blues sound, has died, as Billboard reports. He passed away in a Philadelphia hospital on February 21 after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, the Chicago Tribune reports. He was 75. Born Morris Holt in Mississippi in 1937, Slim grew up on a farm, working in cotton fields before coming to Chicago. He began playing guitar only after losing a pinky finger in a cotton gin accident, which forced him to give up piano. Slim’s recording career began in 1966, with th