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Old 10.05.2006, 01:23 PM   #1
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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.
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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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Old 10.05.2006, 01:31 PM   #3
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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.
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Old 10.05.2006, 01:33 PM   #5
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...contemporarily, probably Ben Harper


...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.
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Old 10.05.2006, 01:35 PM   #6
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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
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Old 10.05.2006, 01:44 PM   #7
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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 why the Allmans and Clapton do having him on their tours is highlight him as a super talent.

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.
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Old 10.05.2006, 01:51 PM   #8
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I fully agree about ben harper's unlistenability!

Muddy waters was a great slide guitarist!
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Old 10.05.2006, 02:38 PM   #9
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this album has some nice pedal steel/slide

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


 
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Old 10.05.2006, 02:47 PM   #11
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That's a good mention. I was thinking about Syd, because I listed George who didn't play slide all that often too.
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Old 10.05.2006, 02:52 PM   #12
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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.
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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
Good list. But I can't forget
Blind Willie Johnson
Beck
Jack White
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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

this is deff. a list to go by. My favorite would be john fahey and leo kottke
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duane motherfucking allman.
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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:
 
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I don't particularly care for them but goddamn he was a good slide player/
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PJ harvey is a good slide player as well. just thought i'd add that.
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The Allman bros kinda make me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
They could jam, but...yuck.


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.








 
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