I Got Sumpin' for You

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. Hoodoo.