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If he'd never cut anything except the 1953 "The Things That I Used to Do" — with its swampy rhythm section, blue horns, piercing, distorted guitar and gospel-intense vocals arranged with a churchy feel by a then-up-and-coming pianist named Ray Charles — Slim would still deserve his own statue overlooking the Mississippi River. And in truth, his star-crossed career was all too brief and he never had another hit. But his stint at Specialty Records, though marred by the fact that every session after the first was in LA rather than NOLA, did produce other anguished performances like "The Story of My Life" and the title song, and a couple tuff-enuff rockers like "Well I Done Got Over It." In a town of pianists, the charismatic bluesman set a standard for guitarists that nobody else approached.
