Brief Applause: Guitar Slim

[SiKxBlAzEr]

who is this guy? any relation to the real slim?

[MyMoppet52]

I like your video. It is really put together well! Love the music I am hearing also. Nice job. Thanks for posting.

[johnnyomaha]

ITS GREAT!

[EyeChakra2012]

My sister just shared this link with me, this is my uncle Sonny. My name is Chris Cannon, but my Mom is related to the Savage family. My father actually met my Uncle Sonny from playing harmonica with his band; I'm honored to see so many people truly interested in this video.

[wapzilla]

Is that Lucky Peteson on the organ?

[thailow117]

good question, dunno. but i guess it derives from outward appearance and physical features like shorty, big-eyes, gatemouth (lol), pinetop, and so forth

[pozegausaill]

Aman brother!!\

[Gonzoidz]

Nice sombre blues. Guys like this are a dying breed.

[willoughby605]

do your thing slim

[maep1999]

Gtr Slim of Cleveland took me under his wing when I just started playing blues gtr.

I had the opportunity to play at the Cascade for about a year in his band in the mid 80s.

He's an excellent singer and guitarist and would let anyone sit in but if the music was wrong he would let you know. Slim is no relation to the original Guitar Slim. I'm pretty sure he got the name because he is slim and plays the guitar. I heard he is in bad health so I do not know if he is still performing.

[kizro10]

I just left New Orleans and got to play with Guitar Slim Jr. He plays down on Bourbon Street at Sing Sing. The best bar in New Orleans. The best blues musicians I have ever seen.

[JaysgrandmaG]

Please know the Eddie Jones(Guitar Slim)deceased, has a living son, Rodney Armstrong PKA Guitar Slim Jr. New Orleans born "grammy-nominated" -- you can see him perform at the New Orleans Jazz/heritage fest or at some clubs in New Orleans, for what I understand he is playing regularly on Burbon St. However, I did enjoy and seeing this video.

[yt86753098675309]

I meant west side haha not website

[yt86753098675309]

This video doesn't do Guitar Slim justice. I saw him recently at Parkview on the web site. Thank you Mr. Slim for the entertainment. He performs incredibly and has a great band, too. The keyboardist even can play with his tongue! I understand he got that white hat from Robert Lockwood. Ok if you are not a blues person, maybe you never heard of Lockwood--I ddn't either--but you can Google him. I think Mr. Slim's son is the drummer.

[teiltje]

Great stuff, with a little less boose you could do it a bit up uptempo so it would come alive. Better for your liver too.

[dogginaround]

Yeah.. he´s not bad.. congratulations! but we want the other Guitar Slim.. E. Jones.. he was an incredible musician

[tengun1]

Yep, that's right. Eddie Jones was the original "Guitar Slim". He died of alcoholism.

[roscoe008]

When i first saw this i hoped all the history i'd read about Eddie Jones was false and he still lived and played. The gentleman is a good bluesman and i'd like to see his show, but it is misleading for him to use the handle of Guitar Slim. EJ/GS is a legend.

[DandJRuffin]

Same here! I thought all the articles i had read so far must have been wrong ...

[bugsycline]

Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (December 10, 1926 February 7, 1959) was a New Orleans blues guitar player 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", a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

[johnnyjolijt]

No Zappacho, that's Eddie Jones (The Things That I Used To Do)Guitar Slim.

He died in '59 I believe.

[Zappacho]

Zappa's biggest guitar inluence !

[EyeofyourMind84]

Wow, thanks for posting. I had no frickin' clue that Slim was in Cleveland at any point!! Great Video, this man is a legend!