Slim's a Texas bluesman down on his luck and just about broke - but that's what the blues is all about. He loves "the real down-home gutbucket blues." Then, one day, the music loves him back. In a single burst of lightning that comes from the ground, Slim finds himself in Texas. It's a little bit magic, and a whole lot different, but the blues is the same. The blues manifest here as a Strat called the Gutbucket, and it's fallen into the hands of T-Bone Pickens, who wants to suck up all its powers and turn it to evil. Slim's off on the Gutbucket Quest, with the help of his mentor Progress T Hornsby, and an unstoppable blues singer named Nadine.