Guitar Slim

Born: December 10, 1926 in Greenwood
Died: February 07, 1959 in New York City

Eddie Jones, 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: Guitar

Genres: Blues

Occupations: musician, songwriter, guitarist, singer

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