# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guitar-slim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:33:14.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guitar-slim"
name: "Guitar Slim"
slug: "guitar-slim"
description: "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."
tagline: "American blues guitarist and singer (1926–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guitar_SlimThe_Things_I_used_to_do.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1926-12-10"
deathDate: "1959-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.92264666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6700077/"
    handle:    "nm6700077"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "غيتار سليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "جيتار سليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ギター・スリム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%ED%83%80_%EC%8A%AC%EB%A6%BC"
    title: "기타 슬림"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Slim"
    title: "Guitar Slim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Гитар Слим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85"
    title: "گٹار سلم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b099cc2b-e9a3-4fa9-b822-4f40248bd145"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q607448"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump