⬇️ GUITAR SLIM ⬇️
(Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones)
DISCOGRAPHY 1953-2023 (31CD)
Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as
Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist, from the 1940s and
1950s, best known for the million-selling song, produced by Johnny
Vincent at Specialty Records, "The Things That I Used to Do". It is a
song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that
Shaped Rock and Roll.
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States. His mother died when he was five, and his grandmother raised him, as he spent his teen years in the cotton fields. He spent his free time at the local juke joints and started sitting in as a singer or dancer; he was good enough to be nicknamed "Limber Leg."
(Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones)
DISCOGRAPHY 1953-2023 (31CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States. His mother died when he was five, and his grandmother raised him, as he spent his teen years in the cotton fields. He spent his free time at the local juke joints and started sitting in as a singer or dancer; he was good enough to be nicknamed "Limber Leg."
After returning from World War II military service, he started playing
clubs around New Orleans, Louisiana. Bandleader Willie D.Warren introduced
him to the guitar, and he was particularly influenced by T-Bone Walker and
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
About 1950 he adopted the stage name 'Guitar Slim' and started becoming
known for his wild stage act. He wore bright-colored suits and dyed his
hair to match them, had an assistant follow him around the audience with
up to 350 feet of cord between amplifier and guitar, and would
occasionally get up on his assistant's shoulders, or even take his guitar
outside the club and bring traffic to a stop. His sound was just as
unusual — he was playing with distorted guitar more than a decade before
rock guitarists did the same, and his gospel-influenced vocals were easily
identifiable.
He got together with Muddy Waters in Los Angeles, California for some
lively playing.
His first recording session was in 1951, and he had a minor rhythm and
blues hit in 1952 with "Feelin' Sad", which Ray Charles covered. His
biggest success was "The Things That I Used to Do" (1954). The song,
produced by a young Ray Charles, was released on Art Rupe's Specialty
Records label. The song spent weeks at number one on the R'n'B charts and
sold over a million copies, soon becoming a blues standard.
He recorded on a few labels, including Imperial, Bullet, Specialty, and
Atco. The recordings made in 1954 and 1955 for Specialty are his
best.
His career having faded, Guitar Slim became an alcoholic, and then died
of pneumonia in New York City at age 32. Guitar Slim is buried in a small
cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where his manager, Hosea Hill,
resided.