Guitar Slim

Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959) is a New Orleans blues guitar player from the 1940s and 1950s best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do" (a song that "shaped rock and roll"), and his flamboyant stage presence.

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December 10 - 1926 - February 7 - 1959 - New Orleans blues - 1940s - 1950s - The Things That I Used to Do - "shaped rock and roll" - Stage presence

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One of his several children plays under the name of Guitar Slim, Jr. and plays a lot of his father's material around New Orleans clubs.

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