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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| Birth name | Eddie Jones |
| Born | December 10, 1926 Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | February 7, 1959 (aged 32) New York City, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician |
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| Years active | 1940s–1959 |
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