Guitar Slim

Also known as Eddie Jones

American blues guitarist and singer (1926–1959)

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1926-12-10
Active to: 1959-02-07

electric bluesnew orleans blues

Discography

The Things That I Used to Do / Well, I Done Got Over It1953

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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 He

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"Eddie Jones" published on by null., B. 10 December 1926, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA, d. 7 February 1959, New York City, New York, USA. Jones aka ‘Guitar Slim’ took the stage styles of his heroes T-Bone Walker ...

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The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. B. 10 December 1926, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA, d. 7 February 1959, New York City, New York, USA. Jones aka ‘Guitar Slim’ took the stage styles of his heroes T-Bone Walker ...

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Greenwood
Place of death: New York City
Occupation: dancer
Languages spoken: English language
Genre: blues
Instrument: guitar
Record label: Imperial
Image: Guitar SlimThe Things I used to do.jpg

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cause of death: pneumonia
date of birth: 1926-01-01
date of death: 1959-01-01
manner of death: natural causes
start of work period: 1950-00-00
described at URL: www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100024104
Commons category: Guitar Slim

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