Artist: Slim Andrews & the Cumberland Valley Revue

Title: Thru the Years

Label: Self-Published in cooperation with Klarity Multimedia

Format: Full length compact disc

Disc condition: Very Good. Disc is signed, "For Linda, Best Always, Slim Andrews"

Container condition: New. Front insert is signed, "Thanks for Every Thing Linda, Slim Andrews"

UPC: 606548672527

Comments: Slim Andrews (born Leonard Andrews Huntington, Jr., June 14, 1931 - January 15, 2022) was an American country music artist with seven decades of performing at the local and regional levels. He began his music career in 1942 at the age of eleven when he won a talent contest at the Community Theater in New Auburn, ME. He got his first guitar at this time and spent 75 years of his life entertaining throughout the South and Northeast. In 1958 Andrews formed the Berkshire Mountain Boys based in Brockton, MA. After 13 years there, he returned to Maine in 1971 and formed the Cumberland Valley Boys. In 1976 Andrews established the State of Maine Country Music Awards Show with Gini Eaton of the Single Spur in Windham, ME. Together they started the Slim Andrews Enterprises Booking Agency, which brought many Nashville acts to venues throughout New England and upstate New York, including Nat Stuckey, Grandpa Jones, Johnny Russell, Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys, and Barbara Fairchild. It was also during this time that Andrews put together an annual State of Maine Country Music All Star Review of Top Maine Talent that included other New England award-winning performers. In 1980, Andrews was cited by the Maine Sunday Telegram as one of the most influential drivers of country music in Maine, along with two other Maine country music pioneers, Dick Curless and Al Hawkes. In 2017 at the age of 86, Andrews set an all-time airplay record for a Maine country music artist. In addition to that, he also set a record for chart appearances by a Maine country music artist on the International Mainstream Country Music Charts.