Guitar Slim!

[SnidelyWhiplash]

I would like to comment on the late great Eddie Jones,otherwise known
as " Guitar Slim ". I know he played a Les Paul,but i thought he was a
great singer & player. Michael Bloomfield said in an interview that he
was one of the few post-war electric blues guitarists who didn't blatantly
copy B.B.King.


Anyone else a fan?

[Groovey Records]

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[Leon Grizzard]

Absolutely. Many years ago I was going through a very rough period when I needed to really grind it out and keep slogging forward - Guitar Slim was my soundtrack.

[brokenjoe]

Slim was THE MAN!

Great singer, great guitarist.

I always liked the quote from Art Rupe about "The Things That I Used To Do":

"That's the worst piece of s#it I've ever heard in my life, but I'm gonna put it out anyways to see what happens...."

[woodman]

absolutely — not only his pioneering overdrive sound, but dazzling showmanship for that era ... he would dye his hair to match the wild-colored suit he was wearing that night, and walk around the room (and sometimes outside) with a roadie paying out his hundred-foot cable.

Slim met a blues-cliche doom, dying of pneumonia in a hotel room as a hopeless drunk ... apparently his career was on the skids, and he literally drank himself to death.