The legendary Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones was a passionate R&B singer and an absolutely brilliant guitar player whose 1950s sides still crackle with a ragged intensity over fifty years after they were recorded. Nearly all rhythm & blues artists hailing from Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi cite him as one of their principal influences. Slim's singing was as fiery as his guitar work, and his gospel-like passion was perfectly matched by the loose-limbed feel of his magnificent band, sometimes including Ray Charles on piano
This quintessential release contains 28 remastered tracks from Guitar Slim's most inspired years, gathering a variety of the great sides he recorded for the Specialty label and Atlantic's subsidiary, Atco Records, between 1953 and 1958 and  are all examples of Slim's distortion-ridden guitar tone that predated Jimi Hendrix and the great blues and rock lead guitar players of the 1960s.


16-PAGE BOOKLET PHOTOS -VINTAGE MEMORABILIA
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TRACKS:

01. OH YEAH! 2:21
02. THE CACKLE 2:19
03. THINK IT OVER 2:24
04. GUITAR SLIM 2:36
05. WELL I DONE GOT OVER IT 2:29
06. PLENTY GOOD ROOM 2:02
07. I GOT SUMPIN' FOR YOU 2:24
08. LETTER TO MY GIRLFRIEND 2:11
09. IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER 2:02
10. LATER FOR YOU BABY 2:23
11. THE THINGS I USED TO DO 3:03
12. TWENTY-FIVE LIES 2:17
13. QUICKSAND 2:23
14. IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU 2:27
15. I WANT TO LOVE-A YOU 2:19
16. SUFFERIN' MIND 2:31
17. YOU GIVE ME NOTHING BUT THE BLUES 2:20
18. REAP WHAT YOU SOW 2:52
19. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY 3:21
20. IT HURTS TO LOVE SOMEONE 2:41
21. I WON'T MIND AT ALL 2:42
22. STAND BY ME 2:16
23. DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS 2:26
24. STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING 3:00
25. OUR ONLY CHILD 2:08
26. BAD LUCK BLUES 2:58
27. CERTAINLY ALL 2:22
28. HELLO, HOW YA BEEN? GOODBYE 2:20