Artist: Guitar Slim
Author: Eddie Jones
Label: Specialty
Year: 1953
Real name: Eddie Jones. Influential Texan guitarist, even on Jimi Hendrix. This was the first time a fuzztone guitar was left untreated, much against Specialty boss Art Rupe's advise, until he saw the sale results: n°1 R&B, with Ray Charles on piano shouting a meaningful "Yeah" at the end.
Covers:
Earl King [all of his earliest compositions are based upon this one]
Buddy Guy [as You Sure Can't Do (The Things You Used To Do); answer song]
Albert Collins [as Talking Slim Blues]
Jimi Hendrix [as Once I Had A Woman]
Jimmy Dawkins [influenced SRV]
Fabulous Thunderbirds [as The Things I Forgot To Do]
Otis Grand [with Kim Wilson, also as The Things I Forgot To Do]
Master entertainer Guitar Slim used to jump into his crowd with an extention cord long enough to let him play all through the club, into the parking lot and sometimes even across the street, while roadies halted traffic. In '59 Guitar Slim drove back from a gig in Lake Charles, all the way to New Orleans, half asleep at the wheel but making it until four blocks from home, where he drove himself dead right into a parked bulldozer.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)