Guitar Slim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Guitar Slim

American blues musician

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1926

Place of Birth: Greenwood, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1959

Profession: singer, musician, songwriter, guitarist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", produced by Johnny Vincent 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 overtones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.