Sly Dell

The guitarist Eddie Lang, who was born Eddie Langlois in the Crescent City on January 15, 1936, had a career that included ten 45s over a period of twenty-two years. By the early ’50s, he was working as second guitar in Eddie ‘Guitar Slim’ Jones’ band when he had the opportunity to record as Little Eddie for Bullet. Two further cuts - for RPM - followed before his sessions in 1959 for Ron. Neither Ron records sold well and, after a single moonlighting appearance for Flame, where he was billed as Sly Dell, it would be a further seven years before he waxed another solo record - for the Banashak-owned Seven B label. He later waxed for Superdome, before ill-health forced him to retire from playing. He died at home in Slidell, LA, presumably the source of the Sly Dell pseudonym, in 1985.