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Top List of Best Slide Players?
Who belongs on a top list of the best slide players? (got this idea from oldguy).
Let's include any amazing slide player, whether it's lapsteel or guitar or any other funky string instrument.
Here are my suggestions, off the top of my head. Probably forgot some.
- Sonny Landreth
- Ry Cooder
- David Lindley
- Warren Haynes
- Robert Randolph
- Derek Trucks
- Johnny Winter
- Muddy Waters
- Duane Allman
- Joe Walsh
- Dickey Betts
- Bonnie Raitt
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That about works for me...maybe George Harrison? Not flashy, but he has his own voice....Originally Posted by Robert
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the first list pretty much covered it....
....not sure of the guys name nut there are some haunting slide tones from the band coldplay like from "blood rushing to my head" or something like that
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Wow! I didn't know Rod was gone. An accidental fall resulting in head trauma (damn skateboards).Rod Price (Foghat).......R.I.P.
I did know Dave P was gone though. Such a cool band in their day.
I forgot to add Jorma Kaukonen to my slide player list. I sat in front of him one night as he did a duo gig. He was playing through a Mesa 1x12 combo and was sounding sweeeet. That was the first time I was mesmerized by the slide guitar. He rocked like a rocket taking off. Too much for my starchy brain to handle. woa dude
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Great list, let's see who I think ought to be on there; hmmmmm.......
1 Bob Brozman (acoustic wiz, Spanish and lap style)
2 Dave Hole (the guy from Down Under who plays over the top and slides off his first finger. NOBODY does dive bombing strafes like Dave.)
3 Luther Allison (didn't play tons of slide, but when he did, he was awesome and so soulful)
4 Rory Block (the first lady of acoustic slide and a hell of a singer too)
5 George Thorogood (you ought to see him LIVE)
6 Lowell George of Little Feat, RIP
7 Hound Dog Taylor
8 Joanna Connor (cover your damn head; she plays a WICKED slide)
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