The Best Blues Guitar Player

[goodtimes]

Ok lets see who is who in the pure blues world, not some one like Hendrix or Stevie Ray.
Just to start off I would throw in
Buddy Guy
Eric Clapton
Freddie King
and Of course my fav white boy, the bad boy of blues Jonny Winter.

[Kenny Glasgow]

If you include EC why not SRV?

You forgot Keb Mo'

[letitbleed]

Gary Moore.
A very under-rated guitarist

[GrahamC]

Doug MacLeod - great mix of origional and cover works.
Keb Mo - Very modern, old fashioned blues man.
John Lee Hooker - get further than Boom Boom and the depth, subltey and emotion of his playing is amazing.

I favour the acustic over the electric but it all surpasses the drivel that passes as music today.

[goodtimes]

The reason I didn’t include SRV is that he didn’t play the classic blues style like Eric does, ie on sessions for Robert DVD Eric plays a classic style in many of the tracks.
When ever I sit down and watch a SRV Dvd I think to my self .. he must be the best.
I also have Gary Moores live at montreux 1990 and at the end of that gig I think to my self nobody plays with more passion than that boy does in that concert.
How ever Eric’s sessions for ...DVD shows a quality and respect for the blues that cannot be denied. some of the acoustic work with Doyle is outstanding
in the classic ,timeless, and pure sense of where the blues started from and what the blues are all about.
Here’s the real rub JUST what is the motivation behind the blues ..is it poverty or emotional poverty?
Does a pig rich bloke like Eric have the right to play Robert Johnson blues who was impoverished or has Eric earned the right to play from his heart because he has reaped the consequences of the bad decisions he has made in the past and been the recipient of great misfortune <his son > etc..
Just what constitutes real blues?.

[jchm]

A vote here for Johnny Winter - who IMHO is a way better (white) Blues singer/guitarist than Clapton....

[Mojo-Filter]

Blind Willie McTell
Robert Johnson

By a country mile

[skysdad]

Rory Gallagher for me.

[barrybarwick]

Another vote for Gary Moore.

[MartinImber]

Gary Moore

[Ronm1]

Ronnie Earl
Melvin Taylor

[stu mcc]

chuck berry can play , when he's a mind to.

stu

My Top Bluesmen 10 :

T-Bone walker
Robert Johnson
Albert collins
Albert king
Buddy Guy
Elmore James ( the King of slide guitar )
John Lee hooker
Muddy Waters
Robert Cray
Blind willie Johnson

Top 10 Rockin Bluesmen :

MicK Taylor ( Can't you hear me knocking - Stones )
Lowell George
Johnny Winter
Eric Clapton
Ry Cooder
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Robin Trower
Bonnie Raitt
Johnny Lang ( Canadian )
J.J Cale

Great Harp players :

Little Walter
Sony boy Williamson II
Juinor Wells
James Cotton
Sony boy williamson I
Big Walter Horton

Just to name a few...