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Guitar Slim - Sufferin' Mind (1955)

Track listing:
  1. The Things That I Used To Do 2:58
  2. Well I Done Got Over It 2:26
  3. Story Of My Life 2:58
  4. Letter To My Girlfriend 2:07
  5. Trouble Don't Last 3:01
  6. Later For You Baby 2:18
  7. Bad Luck Blues 2:53
  8. Sufferin' Mind 2:27
  9. Stand By Me 2:31
  10. Guitar Slim - 11 - Guitar Slim - Sufferin' Mind 2:32
  11. Our Only Child 2:03
  12. Reap What You Sow 2:46
  13. I Want To Love-A You (Take 1) 2:03
  14. Sufferin' Mind 3:03
  15. I Want To Love-A You (Take 11) 2:28
  16. Quicksand 2:20
  17. You're Gonna Miss Me 2:49
  18. I Got Sumpin' For You 3:48
  19. Something To Remember You By 2:51
  20. You Give Me Nothing But The Bl 2:14
  21. Certainly All 2:18
  22. Something To Remember You By 3:22
  23. Certainly All 2:06

Notes

His guitar fraught with manic high-end distortion and his vocals fried over church-fired intensity, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones influenced a boatload of disciples while enjoying the rewards that came with his 1954 R&B chart-topper "The Things That I Used to Do." This 26-song survey of Slim's seminal 1953-1955 Specialty catalog rates with the best New Orleans blues ever cut — besides the often-imitated but never-duplicated smash, his "Story of My Life," "Sufferin' Mind," and "Something to Remember You By" are overwhelming in their ringing back-alley fury. Slim could rock, too: "Well I Done Got Over It," "Quicksand," "Certainly All," and the raucous introduction "Guitar Slim" drive with blistering power (saxist Joe Tillman was a worthy foil for the flamboyant guitarist in the solo department).