Best Slide Guitarists ?
 

Ive really started digging slide guitar since I heard the Gun Club and fell iin love with it again when i heard Muddy Waters. I want to know who everyone thinks are the best of the lot.

Brij Bhushan Kabra and Debashish Bhattacharya are the two best slide guitar players I have ever heard.

Also, check out the 60s band The Misunderstood for some great middle eastern lapsteel-inflected psychedelic rock action.

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D e r e k T r u c k s

he's on tour with Eric Clapton right now

but he's also the Derek Trucks Band
and the Allman Bros' Band

"bEst slide guitarists?"

Music ain't olympics you can't have a best but what Trucks does with his band is pretty damn wild and new and what the Allmans and Clapton do having him on their tours is highlight him as a super talent.

...but then there is the problem of Ben Harper's actual songs being totally unlistenable.

Bhattacharya is totally contemporary, by the way. I saw him play last week.

Robert Johnson
Duane Allman
Debashish Bhattacharya
George Harrison
Mike Bloomfield
Son House
Bob Brozman
Mick Taylor
Ry Cooder
John Fahey
Muddy Waters
Kenny Brown
Leo Kottke

His band came to the Georgia Theater in Athens a lot. I first saw him when he was only twelve. He's technically proficient, but what is his contribution? Is it that his talent excites some into guitar playing maybe? That's all I can think of since he hasn't ever written a memorable song. If I go putting Derek Trucks on the list, then I have to include Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Krieger, Dickie Betts and perhaps even Jeff Healey before him.

I fully agree about ben harper's unlistenability!

Muddy waters was a great slide guitarist!

this album has some nice pedal steel/slide

Japancakes (debut) - If I Could See Dallas (Kindercore, 1999)

sonny sharrock
syd barrett used to play a mean slide too.

That's a good mention. I was thinking about Syd, because I listed George who didn't play slide all that often too.

yeah, george slayed whenever he played slide, which was sadly not often. i'll remember more, there was a time in my formation that i obsessed over slide playing.

Good list. But I can't forget
Blind Willie Johnson
Beck
Jack White

this is deff. a list to go by. My favorite would be john fahey and leo kottke

duane motherfucking allman.

The Allman bros kinda make me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
They could jam, but...yuck.

Except for this gem, of course:

I don't particularly care for them but goddamn he was a good slide player/

PJ harvey is a good slide player as well. just thought i'd add that.

I don't like them either and have remarked on it in the past, but Duane was undeniably an extremely gifted player. I suggest Layla. Yeah, sure as shit, I did forget Blind Willie Johnson. I swear he was in my mind and then I just made a mistake of omission while trying to remember the others. finding nobody is quite into the blues...which is cool. I'm certain I forgot lots of great Hawaiian and Indian players too.

i take the allmans everyday before i take layla.