{"id":5284,"date":"2013-05-21T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2013-05-21T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:00:05","slug":"low-down-classic-blues-from-eddie-guitar-slim-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/low-down-classic-blues-from-eddie-guitar-slim-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Down, Classic Blues From Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones started using a new element into his blues playing, distortion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s no confusing the real Guitar Slim with anybody trying to take on the name nowadays. Eddie Jones, the original Guitar Slim, had a very short, but also very eccentric music career in the 1940s and 50s. His sound was distinct since he was one of the few Delta blues players who went on down to New Orleans instead of up to some of the more popular hubs like Chicago or Memphis. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much video being taken back in that time, because from what I hear, Guitar Slim put on quite a live show. I came across a short bit of footage from a Buddy Guy interview talking about the real Guitar Slim and a couple of his tracks that feature some real blues. Guitar Slim was the real deal, so I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I did!<\/p>\n

Let’s start off with an introduction like no other. Here’s “I’m Guitar Slim” by Guitar Slim at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=etZmdNgtRTk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Buddy Guy shared one of his own personal stories about seeing and hearing Guitar Slim for the first time. Check out this great story at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wyfcGqKtOeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of Slim’s biggest hit songs was actually produced by a young piano player hanging around at the time named Ray Charles. You might have heard of him. Enjoy this hit song “The Things That I Used To Do” by Guitar Slim at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6qh4QLiMkg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I hope you dug hearing from the one and only Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones. I wish we had a whole lot more to hear from this great blues guitarist, singer, and entertainer. There’s more coming your way at Blues Guitar Unleashed, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no confusing the real Guitar Slim with anybody trying to take on the name nowadays. Eddie Jones, the original Guitar Slim, had a very short, but also very eccentric music career in the 1940s and 50s. His sound was distinct since he was one of the few Delta blues players who went on down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}