Real name: Alexander T. Seward

Effective period / Period of releases: 1962

Pseudonym for Alec Seward, US blues singer and guitarist from North Carolina, active in New York. Born March 16, 1901 in Charles City County, Virginia, died May 11, 1972.

Not to be confused with Guitar Slim (6) from South Carolina, Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones from New Orleans, LA ("The Things I Used To Do") or other artists using this nickname.

Son of Martha Johnson and Isaac Seward, he was raised in a large family (14 brothers and sisters). Around 1923-1924, he settled in New York in order to live off his music and befriended Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Seward first recorded in 1944 in New York with Sonny Terry and Woody Guthrie for Stinson Records.