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Well said! Thanks for watching.

Don't think I ever heard him hit a bad note.

Saw J Winter with his brother and Rick Derrringer, another wicked guitar player, saw Jeff Beck with SRV and have seen JB three times. He's good but he's no Jeff Beck. He might be if he keeps playing another 15-20 years. And that's not a knock at all. He's tremendous but Beck was in a class of one. Seen Clapton and a bunch of other greats but when you can make Stevie Ray look like an opening act, you're badass.

@@milesofentertainment SRV was no ones opening act. Come on, Son. That Boy Could Play

Ry Cooder is unbelievable and we'd probably move him into the top five if we remade the video today. He's incredible and won't argue if you think he's #1. Believe that's what you're suggesting. We love Ry and just like DA and DT better.

They are all great. It isn’t. Competition

This is true and everybody has their favorite sounds and artists so we would never argue (too much anyway LOL) with someone else's list. But it's fun conversation. Thanks for watching.

You're right there. LOL

If we had done acoustic only he would have been at or near the top.

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it.

We understand. Came of age with him. He's in rare company.

We love George and he was terrific with a slide but the video focused on players who used a slide primarily and that eliminated some great slide players like Harrison, Jimmy Page, Dicky Betts. In retrospect the one guy we left off who probably should be in the video is Lowell George. And the guy in the video who probably doesn't use a slide at least half the time is Joe Bonamassa. But no disrespect intended to George, Jimmy, Dicky and many other great slide players and it was subjective and arbitrary on our part as to whether a player was most time or occasional. But again, George was my personal favorite Beatle and long before "Air Guitar" I was playing a broom to George's licks.

We would have had to make an hour or 90 minute video to include all Dylan's guitar players. No offense intended or implied in the omission of any guitarist who player with Dylan over the years.

We should have had him higher, around 5th maybe. Some viewers have told us he should be #1.

We will agree with you, however, and it's probably the title's fault but we really were focusing on players who use a slide nearly 100 percent which resulted in some fantastic slide players like George Harrison, Jimmy Page, Dicky Betts and others being omitted. And that was subjective and arbitrary on our end as well so yeah, looking back after a couple years we would make some changes if we remade it today. Bonamassa doesn't use a slide primarily and neither did Jeff Beck (but he was so good) and in retrospect would probably say Lowell George did. But we really appreciate your watching and commenting. In a remake Thorogood would be gone because there's better players but out of curiosity who do you consider lousy?

@@milesofentertainment In that case we're pretty much in agreement. Jeff Beck had the most impeccable intonation with a slide I've ever heard. Lowell George was one of the true masters. I thought Tommy Bolin was quite good with a slide. Allen Hinds is also great when he uses it. On further review, you got a lot of them right (Johnny Winter, Derek Trucks, Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Mick Taylor, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks. Rory Gallagher). There's a guy out there named Dylan Thomas who is one of the best I have ever seen in the finger/slide hybrid style. Definitely worth checking out. George Thorogood is the main one I've always thought was lousy, I've never thought much of Jeremy Spencer, Bonnie Raitt is pretty dull and there were some others I was unfamiliar with who didn't knock me out. Thanks for commenting back. Always fun talking about music.

Seen a handful of his bands videos but don't remember any slide guitar. Will have to revisit him. Saw Roy Gallagher and he was a monster blues guitar player. If he likes Paul Fenton that's reason enough to check him out.

@@milesofentertainment That’s strange. I played with Paul and he was slide guitar full-time. We opened for Gallagher in Montreal; biggest show we ever played.

Yes it is. And more people are getting exposed to it by these two and more like them. It's one of several truly American genres.

We didn't say they're the best if that's what your response means, but who we watched and enjoyed most last year. But getting pretty close to putting Billy in the top five. He is simply incredible. Just don't know to kick out. LOL And thanks for watching and commenting.

Usually but it was a Strat at Newport.

In retrospect I think you're right. Like some of the other greats we left off, just felt like he played without a slide more than with. Seen them maybe a dozen times and Dicky is one of my favorite players. And you're right, he carried them admirably until they added a second guitar player. Best show I ever saw from them was the first tour without Duane and Dicky was on another level that night. He sounded like he was playing both their parts at the same time and they still had Berry who was a phenomenal bass player. One of my favorite concerts ever and that's a lot, and a lot of great bands.

My previous reply must have gone under another thread but thanks for the heads up. We said we'd check him out and did. Man can play. We'll watch more. Thanks again.

We looked for video of Elmore James and the closest we found was his son who is certainly no slouch. Obviously there's none of Robert Johnson. But in retrospect and doing the video today, Lowell would be on there and maybe Dickey Betts. We tried to limit the video to players who primarily used a slide and thought Dickey in particular didn't use one at least half the time. We didn't consider Randolph, saving him for a video of dobro and steel guitar players which is still in the plans. Jerry Douglas, Jeff Healey, Randolph and a few others deserve their own video. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

We agree, LOL

We left a lot of good players out or it would have been two hours long and weren't sure people would watch for 30 minutes. But love Mason Ruffner, we use a couple videos regularly on our monthly playlist of Mason with Kenny Brown, a great player who accompanied R.L. Burnside for years. Thanks for watching.

Hope you enjoyed it. LOL

Appreciate that greatly. It was a lot of fun to make. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Never saw them live but reports are Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton had plenty of epic guitar battles during their time together. But think it's just more about his lyrics than being threatened.

They make him sound better.

We didn't set out to showcase every player he used and set 30 min as the max so there was not disrespect implied or intended by anyone's omission.

For a sports analogy, Willie Mays didn't know when to retire. But Dylan's still selling tickets and think his fans accept what they get from an 80 year old singer while also getting to witness a true legend.

Heard that more than once.