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"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Episode 68 - Slim Jim Phantom

"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett

Performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Slim Jim Phantom declares that the Stray Cats were more country than anyone! Plus we talk about his new book, "A Stray Cat Struts: My Life As A Rockabilly Rebel," his love of jazz and prog, and all things rockabilly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi Slim Jim Phantom here with my buddy Chris Shifflet and you're listening to Walking the Floor.

0:04.7

I'm walking the floor over you.

0:10.7

Walking the floor.

0:11.7

I'm walking the floor. I'm walking the floor.

0:15.0

Walking the floor over you.

0:18.0

Ola, Seniors and Senoritas, and welcome to walking the floor.

0:25.0

I'm Chris Shiflet, and we have a very, very special show for you today because I'm interviewing one of my absolute musical heroes, Mr Slim Jim Phantom from the stray cats, among other things, and we had a really, really nice long talk.

0:42.0

I got to totally fan boy out on him and just ask him every

0:46.3

question. I think I maybe asked him every question that I ever wondered about like stray

0:50.7

cats trivia. It was great. It's really long longer than my normal

0:55.3

interviews because there was a lot of ground to cover and that's good though because

0:59.3

this episode needs to last you through New Year's man it's got to last you through New Years, man.

1:04.2

It's gotta last you through Christmas and New Years,

1:06.0

because I'm gonna shut her down and go enjoy a little vacation time

1:10.3

with my family for the holidays.

1:12.1

And then we'll be back in January. I'll be

1:13.8

back with some fresh new episodes in January, but you know make this one stretch.

1:17.5

Just do like you know ten minutes a day every day until we come back. Okay?

1:25.0

What else is happening? Oh, okay, it's, you're going to hear this on Monday and by then I will have played the show

1:31.0

down at the Kasba opening up for X.

1:33.4

So let's just say it was awesome.

1:36.0

I mean it hasn't happened yet, but I'm just gonna put those vibes out there

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