Guitar Slim - I Got Sumpin' for You [New CD] Spain - Import

24 BIT DIGITALLY REMASTEREDLONG UNAVAILABLE!!!The legendary Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones was a passionate R&B singer and an absolutely brilliant guitar player whose 1950s sides still crackle with a ragged intensity over fifty years after they were recorded. Nearly all rhythm & blues artists hailing from Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi cite him as one of their principal influences. Slim’s singing was as fiery as his guitar work, and his gospel-like passion was perfectly matched by the loose-limbed feel of his magnificent band, sometimes including Ray Charles on piano and tenor saxophonist Joe Tillman.This quintessential release contains 28 remastered tracks from Guitar Slim’s most inspired years, gathering a variety of the great sides he recorded for the Specialty label and Atlantic’s subsidiary, Atco Records, between 1953 and 1958. Some of the material here isn’t available in other collections, nor have these recordings ever been previously compiled together on the same CD. These fabulous songs are true snapshots of that period, when rhythm & blues was on the cusp of changing into rock & roll, or electric blues with hints of gospel music. Explosive classics like “The Things That I Used to Do”, “Oh Yeah!”, “Sufferin’ Mind”, and “Quicksand”, are all examples of Slim’s distortion-ridden guitar tone that predated Jimi Hendrix and the great blues and rock lead guitar players of the 1960s.PERSONNEL:EDDIE “GUITAR SLIM” JONES, vocals and lead guitar, plus:Les Spann, Edgar Blanchard (guitar)Lloyd Lambert (bass)Ray Charles or Lawrence E. Cotton (piano)Oscar Moore (drums)Joe Tillman (tenor saxophoneGus Fontenette (alto saxophone)Alvin “Red” Tyler (baritonesaxophone)Roosevelt Paul Brown or Joe Morris (trumpet), among others.Recorded between 1953 and 1958. Original recordings produced by ArtRupe, Johnny Vincent, “Bumps” Blackwell or Jerry Wexler.16-PAGE BOOKLET PHOTOS -VINTAGE MEMORABILIADETAILED LINER NOTESTRACKS:01. OH YEAH! 2:2102. THE CACKLE 2:1903. THINK IT OVER 2:2404. GUITAR SLIM 2:3605. WELL I DONE GOT OVER IT 2:2906. PLENTY GOOD ROOM 2:0207. I GOT SUMPIN’ FOR YOU 2:2408. LETTER TO MY GIRLFRIEND 2:1109. IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER 2:0210. LATER FOR YOU BABY 2:2311. THE THINGS I USED TO DO 3:0312. TWENTY-FIVE LIES 2:1713. QUICKSAND 2:2314. IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU 2:2715. I WANT TO LOVE-A YOU 2:1916. SUFFERIN’ MIND 2:3117. YOU GIVE ME NOTHING BUT THE BLUES 2:2018. REAP WHAT YOU SOW 2:5219. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY 3:2120. IT HURTS TO LOVE SOMEONE 2:4121. I WON’T MIND AT ALL 2:4222. STAND BY ME 2:1623. DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS 2:2624. STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING 3:0025. OUR ONLY CHILD 2:0826. BAD LUCK BLUES 2:5827. CERTAINLY ALL 2:2228. HELLO, HOW YA BEEN? GOODBYE 2:20TOTAL TIME: 69:35