Guitar Slim

About Guitar Slim

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.  more »

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1964

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Now they call me Guitar Slim, baby
Now I'm come to play in your town
Now they call me Guitar Slim, baby
Now I'm come to play in your town

Now if you don't like my music
Baby, I will not hang around

I like my pocket full of money, baby
And my whiskey, gin and wine
I like my pocket full of money, baby
And my whiskey, gin and wine

I like to eat a country dinner, baby
And I like to get my loving all the time

Now they call me Guitar Slim, baby
Now I'm come to play in your town
Now they call me Guitar Slim, baby
Now I'm come to play in your town

Now if I can't my guitar, baby
I'm don't go, jump and clown

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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, 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 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. more »

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