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Encyclopedia: Guitar Slim

Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (December 10 1926 – February 7 1959) is a New Orleans blues guitar player 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", a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.^[1]

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How to say "Guitar Slim" in other languages:

	(German)	Guitar Slim
	(French)	Guitar Slim

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New Orleans blues

Dupree Snooks Eaglin Guitar Slim, Jr. Guitar Slim Earl King Smiley Lewis Professor Longhair Tommy...

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Ainsi Soit Je...

Boutonnat Keyboard and synthesizer: Laurent Boutonnat Guitar: Slim Pezin Bass: Bernard Paganotti Pan...

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Earl King

better living. King worked with local New Orleans acts including Huey "Piano" Smith. In 1954, Guitar Slim (who at the time had the #1 R&B hit with "The Things That I Used To Do") was injured in an automobile accident, and King was deputized to continue Slim's band tour, representing himself as Slim...

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Chuck Berry

, Baby", originally by Charles Brown "Things I Used to Do", by Louisiana's Guitar Slim Chuck's only... impeccable diction, smoking electric guitar solos and an energetic duckwalking stage personality. Most of... toured for many years carrying only his Gibson guitar, confident that he could hire a band that...

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1959 in music

Big Bopper. February 7 - New Orleans blues and R&B guitarist Eddie Guitar Slim Jones dies of... widely known until the next day - The Day The Music Died. February 7 - Eddie Guitar Slim Jones...

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1954 in music

Things That I Used To Do" - Guitar Slim "Work With Me Annie" - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters...

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Ray Charles

soon became more innovative. He toured with Lowell Fulson and worked with Guitar Slim and Ruth Brown...

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Woody Guthrie - Pastures... & His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock Slim Harpo - Rainin' In My Heart Wynonie Harris...

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