Guitar Slim - Things That I Used to Do [P-Vine]

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 (collected here by the Japanese P-Vine reissue 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. Read More