Guitar Slim: A Musical Legend
Video by Gabrielle Chaisson, staff. The coverage of The Chitlin’ Circuit is part of The Lost Bayou series documenting South Louisiana’s disappearing communities in Garde Voir Ci magazine, gardevoirci.nicholls.edu. Garde Voir Ci is produced by graduating seniors in the Department of Mass Communication at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. www.gardevoirci.nicholls.edu ©2024. Garde Voir Ci. All rights reserved.
About Guitar Slim
Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted tones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.
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