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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 6-DEC-1991

Track Listing

1. Things That I Used to Do
2. Well, I Done Got Over It [*]
3. Story of My Life [*]
4. Letter to My Girlfriend (aka Prison Blues)
5. Trouble Don't Last [*]
6. Later for You Baby
7. Bad Luck Blues [*]
8. Twenty-Five Lies
9. Sufferin' Mind [*]
10. Stand by Me
11. Guitar Slim [*]
12. Our Only Child
13. Reap What You Sow (aka Bad Woman Blues)
14. I Want to Love-a You [Take 1][#][*]
15. Sufferin' Mind
16. I Want to Love-a You [Take 11][#]
17. Think It Over
18. Quicksand
19. You're Gonna Miss Me
20. I Got Sumpin' for You [*]
21. Something to Remember You By [*]
22. You Give Me Nothing But the Blues
23. Going Down Slow [#]
24. Certainly All [Take 2][#]
25. Something to Remember You By [Take 1][#]
26. Certainly All [Take 1][#][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23253 in Music
• Brand: GUITAR SLIM
• Released on: 1991-08-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.com
Guitar Slim is the kind of bluesman who makes one realize just how tame most performers are today. Just one listen to his searing, distorted guitar and boastful vocals on "Guitar Slim" will raise your expectations of other artists. Truth told, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones was one of the greats of 1950s blues, a supreme showman who influenced Earl King, Albert King, and many others to follow in his wake. This collection contains Slim's finest work for the Specialty label and was put together with loving care by compiler Billy Vera. Slim's immortal "The Things That I Used to Do" is here along with impassioned and unforgettable cuts like "Sufferin' Mind" and "Reap What You Sow." Hidden treasures are plentiful with excellent alternate takes, sound checks of Slim calling the shots in the studio, and the classic New Orleans sound of saxophonists Joseph Henry Tillman and Gus Fontenette. --Ken Hohman

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones's Specialty collection starts off with the ultrasensuous R&B chart-topper "Things that I Used to Do" and keeps the pressure on our pleasure points for the next twenty-five songs, all waxed between 1953 and 1955. His voice is at once cavernous and infectious, at all times permeated with true feeling. His spiky guitar phrases, emulated by a legion of players, rock between torment and eroticism. Pianist/arranger Ray Charles lends his handiwork to the four songs done in New Orleans, and Slim's trusty Crescent City/ Chicago/Hollywood adjutants include bass player Lloyd Lambert and drummer Oscar Moore -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Customer Reviews

Influential New Orleans Bluesman
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones is probably the most influential New Orleans blues artists ever. This generous anthology collects 26 tracks from his 1953-56 tenure at Specialty (before leaving for Atco). The album kicks off with his 1953 No. 1 "The Things I Used To Do" and hits all the highlights from the period, including "Story of My Life," "Sufferin' Mind" and "Something To Remember You By." [Note: The 1953 recordings (tracks 1-4) include Ray Charles as pianist and arranger.] If you're going to own only one Guitar Slim album, this is the one to get. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"Story of My Life" - yes, yes, yes
There are a lot of great cuts on this CD but when I want to GET DOWN, I put on "Story of My Life." This song is blues at its most OVER-THE-TOP, from the Slim's impassioned voice twisting around the opening line to his totally raw guitar solo that sounds like one long moan. THIS IS THE BLUES!! Guitar Slim: you were one of a kind. R.I.P.

This is Blue
Via Frank Zappa, I was turned onto Guitar Slim. That's the long and the short of it, and within moments, you can see how Slim influenced Zappa's scratchy, angry guitar sound.

It's all here, some of the purest, meanest, dirtiest blues ever recorded, I'm sure. "You Gonna Miss Me", "Bad Luck Blues", "Reap What You Sow", and especially "Story of My Life" hold up to anything you want to compare them to.

If there is a problem with sound quality, I'm not aware of it--but if you can find a more comprehensive anthology complete with alternate takes or even live tracks, it would probably be worth picking up instead of this release.