(1-8 of 8 song lyrics)Average rating for Guitar Slim songs is 7.33/10 [102 votes]. Selected popular Guitar Slim song of Thursday, October 31 2024 is "Stand By Me".
Top Guitar Slim Albums
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The Complete Releases 1951 - 58 [2019]
I Got Sumpin' for You. The 1953-1958 Recordings [2013]
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 "The Things That I Used to Do", produced by Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records. It is a song that is listed in "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted overtones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. His mother died when he was five, so his grandmother raised him and he spent his teen years in the cotton fields. He spent his free time at the local juke joints and... read more