Thursday, December 10, 2009

It's the Birthday of Guitar Slim

According to Wikipedia;

Guitar Slim (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959) was a New Orleans blues guitarist, from the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song, produced by Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records, "The Things That I Used to Do". It is a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Here we have a video using Guitar Slims song "The Story of My Life".



Earl King performing Guitar Slim's "The Things I Used To Do".




Guitar Slim @Amazon.com


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Guitar Slim - the missing link between Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix!

fitzgerald said...

Anonymous you just might be right.