Guitar Slim

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The Things That I Used to Do 00:00 Tools
The Story Of My Life 00:00 Tools
Well I Done Got Over It 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Blues 02:55 Tools
Guitar Slim 00:00 Tools
Story of My Life 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind 00:00 Tools
Trouble Don't Last 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used To Do - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Twenty-Five Lies 00:00 Tools
Our Only Child 00:00 Tools
Quicksand 00:00 Tools
Later For You Baby 00:00 Tools
Think It Over 00:00 Tools
Stand By Me 00:00 Tools
The Things I used to do 00:00 Tools
Certainly All 00:00 Tools
Something To Remember You By 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Miss Me 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow 00:00 Tools
I Got Sumpin' For You 00:00 Tools
Things That I Used to Do 03:02 Tools
You Give Me Nothing But The Blues 00:00 Tools
Going Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Letter To My Girlfriend 00:00 Tools
Down Through the Years 00:00 Tools
Well, I Done Got over It 00:00 Tools
Along About Midnight 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Love Someone 00:00 Tools
New Arrival 00:00 Tools
Letter To My Girlfriend (aka Prison Blues) 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used To Do (10-27-53) 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow (aka Bad Woman Blues) 00:00 Tools
Snowing and Raining Blues 00:00 Tools
I Want To Love-A You (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Is on Me 00:00 Tools
I Want To Love-A You (Take 11) 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Is On Me (Woman Troubles) 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Sad 00:00 Tools
My Time Is Expensive 00:00 Tools
Standin' At The Station 00:00 Tools
The Cackle 00:00 Tools
If I Had My Life To Live Over 00:00 Tools
Plenty Good Room 00:00 Tools
Come on in my Kitchen 00:00 Tools
When There's No Way Out 00:00 Tools
I Won't Mind At All 00:00 Tools
I Want to Love-A You 00:00 Tools
Strange Things Happening 00:00 Tools
Standin’ At the Station 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Boogie-3 00:00 Tools
Cryin’ In the Morning 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Sad (1952) 00:00 Tools
Hello, How Ya Been? Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Cryin' In The Mornin' 00:00 Tools
If I Have My Life To Live Over (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Come On Down To My House 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Certainly All (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Boogie-3 (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Sufferin’ Mind 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Well I Done Got Over 00:00 Tools
Trouble Don’t Last 00:00 Tools
Oh Yeah! (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Boogie-2 (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Certainly All (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Strange Things Happening (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Something To Remember You By (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Down Through The Years (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Our Only Child (09-28-54) 00:00 Tools
Along About Midnight LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Plenty Good Room (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Things I Used To Do 00:00 Tools
Certainly All - Take 2 00:00 Tools
When There's No Way Out (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Cackle (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Love Someone (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
My Time Is Expensive (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Feelin’ Sad 00:00 Tools
Guitar Lim Boogie-2 00:00 Tools
I Won't Mind At All (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Hello, How Ya Been? Goodbye (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Lula's Back In Town 00:00 Tools
I Want To Love-A You - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Home Blues 00:00 Tools
Cryin' In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Boogie-2 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind - Take 1 00:00 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Love Someone (That Don't Love You) 00:00 Tools
I Want To Love-A You - Take 11 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used To Do (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Something To Remember You By - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Certainly All - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Lovin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Jazz Boogie 00:00 Tools
Certainly All (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
The Story Of My Life (10-27-53) 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Love-A You 00:00 Tools
Oh Yeah 00:00 Tools
Certainly All (10-27-53) 00:00 Tools
Standin' At The Station (05-?-51) 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind Take 1 00:00 Tools
Certainly All - (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
I Done Got Over It 00:00 Tools
Hello,How Ya Been? Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Certainly All (1952) 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used to Do-1954-Specialty 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Is On Me (Woman Troubles) (05-?-51) 00:00 Tools
Well I Done Got Over It (10-27-53) 00:00 Tools
I'm Feelin Lonesome 00:00 Tools
Cryin' In The Morning (05-?-51) 00:00 Tools
Oh Yeah ! 00:00 Tools
Certainly All (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
A Letter To My Girlfriend (10-27-53) 00:00 Tools
New Arrival (05-?-51) 00:00 Tools
Long Distance Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Feelin' Lonesome 00:00 Tools
Katie May - Katie May 00:00 Tools
When The Sun Goes Down 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used to Do - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I'm Still In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Ain't It A Shame? 00:00 Tools
Win-O 00:00 Tools
GOT TO FIND ME A WOMAN 00:00 Tools
Twenty Five Lies - "Truth and Lies" 00:00 Tools
Hard Headed Blues 00:00 Tools
Lookout Blues 00:00 Tools
Every Dog Has His Day 00:00 Tools
Going Down Slow (10-27-53) 00:00 Tools
Got No Use for You 00:00 Tools
The Things I Used to Do - Guitar Slim 00:00 Tools
Railroad Station Blues 00:00 Tools
Pony Tail 00:00 Tools
Cry Baby 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used To Do (1953) 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Boogie - 2 00:00 Tools
Later For You Baby (04-16-54) 00:00 Tools
Stand By Me (09-28-54) 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim (09-28-54) 00:00 Tools
Wanderin' Heart 00:00 Tools
Won't You Spread Some Flowers On My Grave 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Wild 00:00 Tools
I Need Your Love 00:00 Tools
I'll Always Be In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Eyes Full Of Tears 00:00 Tools
Do Unto Others 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Booggie - 3 00:00 Tools
My Idea About You 00:00 Tools
Standing At The Station 00:00 Tools
Prison blues 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Wind 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind (09-28-54) 00:00 Tools
Trouble Don'T Last (04-16-54) 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow (09-28-54) 00:00 Tools
I'm Guitar Slim 00:00 Tools
Blues Before Dawn 00:00 Tools
Outdoor Weather Blues 00:00 Tools
Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Twenty-Five Lies (09-28-54) 00:00 Tools
Be Faithful 00:00 Tools
Walkin' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Yours Truly 00:00 Tools
You Know - Yeah 00:00 Tools
If I Had May Life To Live Over 00:00 Tools
Things That I Used To Do (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Back Luck Blues (04-16-54) 00:00 Tools
Hurry, Hurry 00:00 Tools
I Got News for You 00:00 Tools
(Well) I Done Got Over It 00:00 Tools
Crying In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Letter to My Girlfriend (Prison Blues) 00:00 Tools
Alond About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Baby Don't You Cry 00:00 Tools
I Got Sumpin For You 00:00 Tools
Ups and Downs Blues 00:00 Tools
Crooked Wife Blues 00:00 Tools
Letter to My Girlfriend (A.K.A. Prison Blues) 00:00 Tools
Christmas Time Blues 00:00 Tools
South Carolina Blues 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used to Do (1954) 00:00 Tools
Don't Break My Heart 00:00 Tools
I Must Go On 00:00 Tools
Hello, How Ya' Been, Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Sum'thin' To Remember You By 00:00 Tools
Humming Bird Blues 00:00 Tools
Betty and Dupree 00:00 Tools
The Things That 00:00 Tools
Wondering Why 00:00 Tools
Letter to My Girl Friend 00:00 Tools
Mean Girl Blues 00:00 Tools
Hello, How Ya Bin, Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Railroad Blues 00:00 Tools
Goung Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Is On Me (Aka Woman Troubles) 00:00 Tools
No More Hard Times 00:00 Tools
SomethingTo Remember You By 00:00 Tools
Southern Whistle Blues 00:00 Tools
She's Evil and Mean 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow (A.K.A. Bad Woman Blues) 00:00 Tools
WOMAN TROUBLES 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Blues - Guitar Slim 00:00 Tools
Well, I Done Got Over It (Specialty 482) 00:00 Tools
The Things I Used to Do (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Right and Wrong Woman 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim [*] 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave Me All by Myself 00:00 Tools
Big Trouble Blues 00:00 Tools
Going Down South 00:00 Tools
Feelin 'Sad 00:00 Tools
Cooking Big Woman 00:00 Tools
Early Mornin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Crying Won't Make Me Stay 00:00 Tools
You Give Me Nothing But The Bl 00:00 Tools
Something to Remember You By [*] 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim 00:00 Tools
Well, I Done Got Over It [*] 00:00 Tools
Hello, How Ya' Been? Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Hard Headed Woman 00:00 Tools
Travelin' Boy's Blues 00:00 Tools
Working Man Blues 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Love a You 00:00 Tools
Guitar Slim Boogie 00:00 Tools
If I Have My Life to Live Over 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Gone) 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Blues [*] 00:00 Tools
Going Down Slow [#] 00:00 Tools
Sufferin Mind 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow (Bad Woman Blues) 00:00 Tools
Early Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind [*] 00:00 Tools
You're Gomma Miss Me 00:00 Tools
Well I Done Got Over It (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Mike and Jerry 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow (Slightly Loud) 00:00 Tools
The Things That I Used To Do ( 00:00 Tools
Later For You Bany 00:00 Tools
I´m Feeling Lonesome 00:00 Tools
Back Luck Blues 00:00 Tools
Snowing And Raining 00:00 Tools
Did You Get That Letter 00:00 Tools
Shake Em Up 00:00 Tools
I Got Sumpin' for You [*] 00:00 Tools
Trouble Don't Last [*] 00:00 Tools
I Hurts To Love Someone 00:00 Tools
Blood Is Thicker Than Water 00:00 Tools
Jail Buddy Blues 00:00 Tools
Outfit 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Love-A You 00:00 Tools
Hard Luck Blues 00:00 Tools
Trouble Dont't Last 00:00 Tools
Reap What You Sow (Alt. Take) 00:00 Tools
09 - Guitar Slim - The Things that I Used to Do 00:00 Tools
Sufferin' Mind (Alt.Take) 00:00 Tools
Bad Acting Woman 00:00 Tools
Yellow and Brown Woman 00:00 Tools
Twnety-Five Lies 00:00 Tools
Mini Boogaloo 00:00 Tools
I Want Love-A You 00:00 Tools
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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 Hendrix. Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. His mother died when he was five, so his grandmother raised him and he spent his teen years in the cotton fields. He spent his free time at the local juke joints and starting sitting in as a singer or dancer; he was good enough to be nicknamed "Limber Legs". After returning from World War II military service, he started playing clubs around New Orleans, Louisiana. Bandleader Willie Warren had introduced him to the guitar, and he was particularly influenced by T-Bone Walker and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. About 1950 he adopted the stage name "Guitar Slim" and started becoming known for his wild stage act. He wore bright-colored suits and dyed his hair to match them, had an assistant follow him around the audience with up to 350 feet of cord between amplifier and guitar, and would occasionally get up on his assistant's shoulders, or even take his guitar outside the club and bring traffic to a stop. His sound was just as unusual — he was playing with distorted guitar more than a decade before rock guitarists did the same, and his gospel-influenced vocals were easily identifiable. He got together with Muddy Waters in Los Angeles for some lively playing. His first recording session was in 1951, and he had a minor rhythm and blues hit in 1952 with "Feelin' Sad", which Ray Charles liked enough to cover, and also to play on Slim's later recordings. His biggest success was 1954's "The Things That I Used to Do", which is supposed to have come to him in a dream: "A devil and angel fought each other with their own sets of lyrics. Of course, being a blues song, the devil's lyrics had won out." The song was released on Art Rupe's Specialty Records label. The New Orleans swampy feeling and utilizing church-sounding chords,it was a stunning song and instantly went to the top of the charts nationwide. The song spent weeks at number one on the R&B charts and sold over a million copies, soon becoming a blues standard. The tour made on the strength of this song sold out a week of dates at the Apollo Theater, something even Sammy Davis, Jr. wasn't able to do. Slim was a great drinker and a womanizer; he missed some 1954 tour dates due to a car accident involving alcohol, and he was often said to have a different woman with him every night. He continued to write and tour, and had some other hits such as "It Hurts To Love Someone" and "Down Through The Years," but nothing at the level of "The Things That I Used To Do." He recorded on many labels, including Delmark Records and Specialty Records. His career having faded, Guilar Slim died of alcoholism in 1959 at the age of 32. After his death blues musician Pat Chase took up the name "Guitar Slim" as a tribute to his legacy in 1971 Influence on later musicians American rock musician Frank Zappa cited Guitar Slim as a major influence on his style of guitar playing. Buddy Guy was highly influenced by Guitar Slim, especially by his stage performances. Albert Collins names Guitar Slim as one of his most important sources of inspiration. Jimi Hendrix recorded a version of "The Things That I Used to Do" with Steve Stills on bass guitar in 1969. Also Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded a cover version of "The Things That I Used to Do". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.