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.

His death

In 1959, he was having breathing problems stemming from his drinking. He and a band went on tour anyway, and while they were in New York he developed pneumonia. Despite a doctor's advice, he didn't stop drinking, and had to be carried to his room in New York City. The band thought he was just drunk, but when he could not be revived, a doctor was summoned. Unfortunately, the bronchial pneumonia and the alcohol had combined to kill him.

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1959 - New York - New York City

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He was buried with his guitar in an unmarked grave in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where he was living at the time. His death did not get much publicity due to the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper a few days before.

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Thibodaux, Louisiana - The plane crash - Buddy Holly - Ritchie Valens - The Big Bopper

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