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- Artist: Guitar Slim
- Rating:
- Release Date: 1964
- Type: Compilation (best of), Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Blues
Review
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones was a passionate, fiery singer and an absolutely brilliant guitar player whose early-'50s sides for Art Rupe's Specialty Records label still crackle out of the speakers with a ragged intensity 50 years later. Recorded between 1953 and 1955 in New Orleans with Lloyd Lambert's band (and Ray Charles sitting in on piano), Jones delivered explosive classics like "Things That I Used to Do," "The Story of My Life," "Sufferin' Mind," and "Quicksand," single-handedly inventing a distortion-ridden guitar tone that prefigured the blues and rock lead guitar players of the 1960s. His singing was equally as wild, and the gospel-like passion at work in these tracks is perfectly matched by the loose-limbed feel of Lambert's band, particularly tenor saxophonist Joe Tillman, who goes toe to toe with Jones' guitar lines. Jones' later work for Atlantic never rose to this kind of fevered pitch, so make sure that whatever Guitar Slim collection you pick up -- and this one is an excellent choice -- contains his Specialty tracks. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Well, I Done Got over It | Guitar Slim | (2:29) | |
| Trouble Don't Last | Guitar Slim | (3:15) | |
| Guitar Slim (Lyrics) | Guitar Slim | (2:41) | |
| The Story of My Life | Guitar Slim | Guitar Slim | (3:01) |
| A Letter to My Girl Friend | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:10) |
| Reap What You Sow | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:51) |
| Later for You Baby | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:22) |
| The Things That I Used to Do | Guitar Slim, Johnny Jones | Guitar Slim | (3:02) |
| Quicksand | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:24) |
| Bad Luck Blues | Guitar Slim | (2:57) | |
| Think It Over (Lyrics) | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:23) |
| Our Only Child | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:07) |
| I Got Sumpin' for You | Guitar Slim | (2:23) | |
| Sufferin' Mind (Lyrics) | Eddie Jones, |
Guitar Slim | (2:30) |
| Twenty Five Lies | Eddie Jones | Guitar Slim | (2:16) |
| Something to Remember You By | Guitar Slim | Guitar Slim | (3:20) |
| Certainly All | Guitar Slim | (2:21) | |
| Going Down Slow | Guitar Slim | (3:37) | |
| Stand by Me (Lyrics) | Guitar Slim | (2:15) | |
| You Give Me Nothing But the Blues (Lyrics) | Guitar Slim | (2:19) | |
| You're Gonna Miss Me (Lyrics) | Guitar Slim | (2:56) | |
| I Wanna Love-A You | Guitar Slim | (2:19) | |
| I Got Sumpin' for You | Guitar Slim | (4:38) | |
| Reap What You Sow | Guitar Slim | (2:38) |
