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- Artist: Guitar Slim
- Rating:
- Release Date: 1991
- Total Time: 66:42
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Blues
Review
His guitar fraught with manic high-end distortion and his vocals fried over church-fired intensity, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones influenced a boatload of disciples while enjoying the rewards that came with his 1954 R&B chart-topper, "The Things That I Used to Do." This 26-song survey of Slim's seminal 1953-1955 Specialty catalog rates with the best New Orleans blues ever cut -- besides the often imitated but never duplicated smash, his "Story of My Life," "Sufferin' Mind," and "Something to Remember You By" are overwhelming in their ringing back-alley fury. Slim could rock, too: "Well, I Done Got Over It," "Quicksand," "Certainly All," and the raucous "Guitar Slim" drive with blistering power. Saxophonist Joe Tillman was a worthy foil for the flamboyant guitarist in the solo department. ~ Bill Dahl, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| The Things That I Used to Do | Guitar Slim | (2:58) | |
| Well, I Done Got Over It [*] | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:22) |
| Story of My Life [*] | Burt Bacharach, Guitar Slim | Guitar Slim | (2:57) |
| Letter to My Girlfriend (aka Prison Blues) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (1:56) |
| Trouble Don't Last [*] | Guitar Slim | (3:00) | |
| Later for You Baby | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:18) |
| Bad Luck Blues [*] | Guitar Slim | (2:52) | |
| Twenty-Five Lies | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:11) |
| Sufferin' Mind [*] | Guitar Slim | (2:26) | |
| Stand by Me (Lyrics) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:28) |
| Guitar Slim [*] | Guitar Slim | (2:32) | |
| Our Only Child | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:03) |
| Reap What You Sow (aka Bad Woman Blues) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:36) |
| I Want to Love-a You [Take 1][#][*] | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (1:53) |
| Sufferin' Mind [take 1][#] (Lyrics) | Guitar Slim | (2:54) | |
| I Want to Love-a You [Take 11][#] | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:35) |
| Think It Over (Lyrics) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:27) |
| Quicksand | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:20) |
| You're Gonna Miss Me (Lyrics) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:49) |
| I Got Sumpin' for You [*] | Guitar Slim | (2:19) | |
| Something to Remember You By [*] | Guitar Slim | Guitar Slim | (2:41) |
| You Give Me Nothing But the Blues (Lyrics) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:15) |
| Going Down Slow [#] | Guitar Slim | (2:57) | |
| Certainly All [Take 2][#] | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:15) |
| Something to Remember You By [Take 1][#] | Guitar Slim | Guitar Slim | (3:19) |
| Certainly All [Take 1][#][*] | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (3:19) |
