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Guitar Slim

American blues musician

Guitar Slim

American blues musician
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birthday
10th
December, 1926
Death
7th
February, 1959
Birth Place
Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
Birth Sign
sagittarius
Biography

Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song “The Things That I Used to Do”, produced by Johnny Vincent for Specialty Records. It 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.

instruments played
electric
Guitar
Vocals
Birth Name

Eddie Jones

Genres

Blues, electric blues, New Orleans blues, R&B, rock and roll

Name

Guitar Slim

Nationality

United States of America

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