River City Slims is a Blues Club that opened on September 12, 2007 in the downtown Grand Rapids area. River City Slims will provide live entertainment and great southern food in a fun relaxed atmosphere.
**Mission statement**
River City Slims is committed to creating an environment of quality for its internal and external clients. We will strive to provide our guests with the finest in food, service and entertainment.
Stopped into the jam tonight and had a very smokin good time. The house band was cooking and pushed me into playing hard. Loved it. Loved playing the Blues in GR. I'll Be Back!
Thanks for Adding Us! Keep checking back as get the calendar up and running, as well as band bio’s and venue info in our blog! Peace and Blues Groovin’, Your Friends in the Kalamazoo Valley Blues Association
We had a great time playing Slims and look forward to returning in the future. Steve, Fred...you cats are way cool and really made the evening a special blues infused experience. Oh, yeah, great food too! Keep on rockin'
THANK YOU FOR ADDING US! Geoff Stein Project Coconut Coasters
WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t let the Ukulele scare you, we rock Musicians Geoff Stein – Lead Vocals – Ukulele – acoustic guitar Baub Eis – Electric Guitars, acoustic guitar, bass, Ashiko ,Juice harp John Marsi – Drums - (Baub Eis Band) Dave Raithel – Bass (Baub Eis Band) Rich Robben - Backup Vocals On Another Day Down (Jack’s Cellar) Corey Duplechin – Bass (Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band) Chubby Carrier – Accordion (The Bayou Swamp Band) Larry Cox – Bass Guitar (Boxcar Willie) Tim Perez – Backup Vocals on all songs Carissa Dawn - Female Vocal Child of God, backup vocals on Why Not Me Brian Herzog – Piano, keyboard, Strings, back up vocals Michael Vyrostek – B-3 Johnny Gibble and Mike Hahn- Auxiliary Percussion Kyle Wiles – Telecaster Steve Landau – Rap on Coconut Julie James - Backup vocal, Another Day Down Pre Production – Eric Petska, Theresa Jones, Ed Gaston
finially got the chance to check your place out last sat night. had a great time! loved the decor, staff were friendly and the establishment super clean and cozy! thanx for a fun night out!
And Root Doctor wins the Jammie for Best Blues Album of The Year!! Woohoo... Felix from WMBS is going to bring it to our show next weekend and present it. We couldn't make it to the award cermony last night. So party at your place next Saturday Feb 23rd!!
The Rusty Wright Band sends their sincere thanks to everyone at River City Slims. You made us feel very welcome and we appreciated the opportunity to perform for so many of our West Michigan friends.
Hey Everybody...Thanks for the great party. We had a blast last night and enjoyed dancing with you all. Looking forward to the next time. Until then...Keep the blues alive. Peace!
It's been a very hectic past few days. Just want to let you know how much I enjoyed playing there last Thursday. You've got one of the coolest bar venues I've been to in a long time. I'm really looking forward to coming back sometime.
