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 {&"Somet...   [ read more ]

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Here Alex "Guitar Slim" Seward and Louis Hayes ("Fat Boy" or "Jelly Belly") are captured in New York City. This traveling pair also recorded as the Backporch Boys, Blues King and The Bluesboys bringing rural, east coast Blues in the tradition of Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee to their nostalgic constituents displaced to the big Northern cities during and after World War II. Louis and Alex trade back and forth in conversational exchanges leading before a...   [ read more ]

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The debut album from gifted song man Langhorne Slim reissued including five previously unreleased songs! That's 20 tracks of heartbreaking, foot-stompin', and shuffling blues, country and rock'n'roll flavors. Includes a couple of backing players on upright bass and drums. "Langhorne Slim expertly walks the line between the sublime and the subterranean. At once raucous and reverent, his old-timey country blues is tempered with the occasional outburst of punk rock insolence indicating that there may just be ...   [ read more ]

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