he won a talent contest at the Community Theater in New Auburn, Maine. He got his first guitar at that time and has spent the past 63 years entertaining throughout the East.

In 1948, He joined the U.S. Army and spent three years in Germany where he also entertained the troops periodically on special assignments, as well as participating in the Berlin Air Lift during the Blockade. Upon discharge, he married his high school sweetheart, fathered five sons and one daughter and continued his career as a performer and vocalist with several groups in the southeastern Massachusetts area.

In 1958 Slim formed the Berkshire Mountain Boys. After 13 years there, he returned to Maine in 1971, formed the well known Cumberland Valley Boys and created the State of Maine Country Music Awards in 1976 with Gini Eaton of the Single Spur, in Windham, Me. Together they created the booking agency, Slim Andrews Ent., ran the Single Spur, married in 1979, and continued to operate the businesses together. Slim worked with and booked many Nashville acts throughout New England, in clubs, fairs, TV and radio productions and in 1980 was cited by the Maine Sunday Telegram as one of the most influential drivers of Country Music in Maine, along with Dick Curless and Al Hawkes.

In 1977, Slim and Gini, along with Barry Dean, founded the Maine Country Music Association, with Slim becoming the acting President until regular officers were elected in July of that year. In 1985 they moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan where they stayed for several years.

In 1990 they relocated to Savannah, Georgia until 2000; where Slim continued performing and created the American Legion Band in Savannah know as the Country Vets, an outreach program to veterans in nursing and retirement communities.

They returned to Maine in 2000, and in May of 2001, Gini passed away after 14 years of fighting cancer.

In 2002 Slim was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame, met and married his wife Carole Ann and continues to perform throughout New England. In 2004, Slim re-formed

‘The Cumberland Valley Boys with Vicki Jaimes’.

In May 2005, after 63 years in the Country Music Business, Slim recorded and released his first CD Album, titled “Favorites For A Lifetime” consisting of eleven songs. Six of them are original songs written by Slim and his son Jamie. Three of them are the sole works by Slim, and deal with some of the life changing events in his life; i.e. Jamie’s Birth, marriage to his second wife and her subsequent death, and the signature song of the album, “The Autumn of Our Lives” which tells of his marriage to his third wife, Carole Ann.

Slim continues to write and perform his songs as well as a repertoire of over 700 country songs by various artists.

Slim’s legal name is Leonard Andrew Huntington but he selected the pseudonym of “Slim Andrews” upon discharge from the Army in 1952, in order to give his name a country music flavor.