Apr192024

Guitar Slim

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. Read more on Last.fm

Track: The Things That I Used to Do

Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1The Things That I Used to Do
62296
2Well I Done Got Over It
9326
3Bad Luck Blues
7544
4The Story Of My Life
5499
5Sufferin' Mind
4460
6Guitar Slim
4414
7Story of My Life
4379
8Trouble Don't Last
3320
9Twenty-Five Lies
2842
10Along About Midnight
2620

Other Album Releases:

The Story of My Life
Trouble Don't Last
The ATCO Sessions
Carolina Blues
Sufferin' Mind
Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 8 - Lonesome Home Blues
Ain't It a Shame?
Slim Fit
The Very Best Of 1951-1954
The Specialty Story

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