Guitar Slim - Sufferin Mind

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Music Review: No one with ears can do without this CD! Needs 100 stars!!!!
Rating: 5 Stars

Eddie Guitar Slim Jones was the Master of the Stratacaster one of the most important electric blues stylists ever. Of course, like all great bluesmen, he is first last and always a great great singer. This is good, not history, but just plain excellent, better than good! If this album was cut last night by a white boy from Iowa, it would still be one of the great blues collections, and one of the most fun cds of any type in my library.

There are very few people even the blues who put themselves and their personality into their music the way Slim does. And when I say personality, I mean total personality. A researcher for a tape put out in New Orleans with his music in the 1970s interviewed a man who he assumed was Guitar Slim's tailor back in the 1950s. He asked the man if he had any stories of things Slim had done in New Orleans. The man started telling about the outfits Slim would wear that would stop traffic on Canal St. in downtown New Orleans. He kept going on with stories of cool and wild stuff he had seen Slim do. Then, the researcher asked the man about tailoring clothes. The man told him he wasn't a tailor for Slim or anyone else, but a truck driver. The tailor was his cousin who had passed away. Slim was such a character that any every day truck driver had an hour of stories about him 25 years after he had passed away.

The guitar playing is excellent, bridging the gap between jump blues and electric blues that was only emerging when these tracks were cut. Everything, even slow blues swings and rocks. Beside the hard core you aint my woman blues like the masterpiece "The Things We Used to Do," there is plenty of fun here, like "My name is Guitar Slim." I too love "The sTory of my life." What a story it must have been; someone needs to write a book or a movie about Slim.

This is a CD that I find hard to play because once I put it on the machine all I want to do is repeat, repeat, repeat. I am now worried because I have a lot of other things to do when I get home after writing this, and all I may do is play this CD.

No one with ears can go without his records.

Description of Sufferin Mind

Blues CDs

• Music > Styles
• Pop
• R&B