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Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones)
The Things That I Used To Do
Release date: 12-4-1991
Catalogue Number: CDCHD318
Label: SPECIALTY / ACE
Tracks recorded 1953-55

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AMG Review by Steve Leggett:

Not given to rote performances of his material, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones was a passionate, fiery singer and an absolutely brilliant guitar player whose early-'50s sides for Art Rupe's Specialty Records label still crackle out of the speakers with a ragged intensity 50 years later. Recorded between 1953 and 1955 in New Orleans with Lloyd Lambert's band (and Ray Charles sitting in on piano), Jones delivered explosive classics like "Things That I Used to Do," "The Story of My Life," "Sufferin' Mind," and "Quicksand," single-handedly inventing a distortion-ridden guitar tone that prefigured Jimi Hendrix and the great blues and rock lead guitar players of the 1960s. His singing was equally as wild, and the gospel-like passion at work in these tracks is perfectly matched by the loose-limbed feel of Lambert's band, particularly tenor saxophonist Joe Tillman, who goes toe to toe with Jones' guitar lines. Jones' later work for Atlantic never rose to this kind of fevered pitch, so make sure that whatever Guitar Slim collection you pick up contains his Specialty tracks.

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01. Well I done got over it [2:29]
02. Trouble don't last [3:15]
03. Guitar Slim [2:41]
04. The story of my life [3:01]
05. A letter to my girl friend [2:10]
06. Reap what you sow [2:51]
07. Later for you baby [2:22]
08. The things that I used to do [3:02]
09. Quicksand [2:24]
10. Bad luck blues [2:57]
11. Think it over [2:23]
12. Our only child [2:07]
13. I got sumpin' for you [2:23]
14. Sufferin' mind [2:30]
15. Twenty five lies [2:16]
16. Something to remeber yoy by [3:20]
17. Certainly all [2:21]
18. Going down slow [3:37]
19. Stand by me [2:15]
20. You give me nothing but the blues [2:19]
21. You're gonna miss me [2:56]
22. I wanna love-a you [2:19]
23. I got sumpin' for you [4:38]
24. Reap what you sow [2:38]