# Guitar Slim

> Eddie Jones, known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted tones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix.

*American blues guitarist and singer (1926–1959)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1926-12-10
- **Died:** 1959-02-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 49.0 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 14.9 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6700077/ (@nm6700077)

## Sources
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- [گٹار سلم](https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b099cc2b-e9a3-4fa9-b822-4f40248bd145)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q607448)

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