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 DETAILED LINER NOTES 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
