Guitar Slim


Eddie Jones , better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist, from the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the millionselling 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 Fames 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.

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.

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