Slim Dunlap, the last guitarist of the Replacements, was considered little more than background filling for Paul Westerberg's voice. His debut The Old New Me (Medium Cool, 1993) was a honest record of white rhythm and blues, with a good dose of catchy melodies and Keith Richards riffs.

Times Like This (Medium Cool, 1996) is a decent blues-rock album, but a little uninspired, coming through as a mixture of Rolling Stones (Cozy) and Lou Reed (Radio Hook Word Hit) with avant-funk-blues ambitions (Jungle Out There), while Little Shiva's Song dusts off the glory of the Replacements and the title-track grants him a second career as a writer of bittersweet ballads.

Slim Dunlap died at the end of 2024.