Slide Guitar Top 20-Best of the Best
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2020
- Disclaimer: Excluding slide pioneer legends like Robert Johnson and Elmore James because of lack of video, this is our subjective top 20 slide guitarists. After much consideration we ranked our favorites, painfully excluding legendary slide players like Jimmy Page, George Harrison, Muddy Waters and other greats. But, we welcome your thoughts, opinions and comments below. If you enjoy the video please like and SUBSCRIBE. Check out our other original videos and extensive playlists. Below are links to playlists of guitar players in this video. Enjoy your visit and come back soon. Thanks, MOE
Duane Allman
• MOE Best of Duane Allman
Mick Taylor
• MOE Best of Mick Taylor
Jack Pearson
• MOE Best of Jack Pearson
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Rod Price from the rock band Foghat was a superb slide player!
No question. We featured them in a concert of the week sometime back with some great guest artists sitting in. You can find it probably on the 2022 Concerts of the Week playlist but check back this years first. Might have been early this year. Great band and great live.
THE BEST.ROD PRICE
Great video! A couple of my favs slide players are Martin Simpson and Kelly Joe Phelps. More in the folk realm but still phenomenal slide players.
We leaned toward electric in the video but will watch some video of your guys. Thanks, MOE
Thanks, man! You got all my favorites here and introduced me to a few I was unfamiliar with. Very nice. Edit: By the way, I played with Kenny Brown for a short while in the 90's. Great guy.
That is so cool. Discovered Kenny with R.L. and have always loved his guitar, especially the slide and he always appeared to be just a good ole country boy. You've probably got some good stories.
Very sad to hear the news today March 3rd 2023 of the passing of the great lap steel guitarist David Linley at the age of 78. He's now up in slide heaven singing that lap steel while cruising in his Mercury. RIP
Oh Wow, we've been without power since then and had not heard that news. Yes, David Lindley was an American treasure. We are so saddened to hear that. Heaven's getting a damn good band together.
Great video! A lot of players who don’t get their due.
Thanks, we're thinking about a follow up because you're right, there's a ton of great players. Check out this video we made of underrated guitar players
ruclips.net/video/rfTF9nm3o2M/видео.html
Rod Price Of Foghat would've been a good one to add to this. After all He Was Called The Magician Of The Slide. There are some great slide Players In This Video Thanks For Sharing
Good call and to be totally honest just forgot about him and never even thought about him while making a list to work down from. Good player and Foghat was a really good band
@milesofentertainment Rod was the Best. Not one player sounded like him. His playing went right through your body.
I do believe you've got that right. Well done...
Much appreciated, thanks for watching
Wow, actually pretty damn good list!
Thank you for watching and commenting. If we made it today, we might change the order somewhat.But not #1.
Bonnie Raitt would be more stunned than she was at the recent Grammy’s for being awarded the best song as being selected over her mentor Lowell George. And majority of your selections wouldn’t be here if not for Elmore James!!!!!!!!
Wish we could have found video of Elmore. He certainly belonged on the video. We found some of his son but not Elmore.
Love the addition of Jack Pearson!
We think he is just so underrated. And just genuine "good people."
Jack is as good as anybody. He can play anything Well
I have always dug slide guitarist, just something about that sound, from the lap steel of Hawaii to the country Blues Men of the Delta to the peddle steel and dobro of bluegrass/country. So so many favorites, but for me it always comes down to the mystery of the amazing Robert Johnson...oh my. Us fans of slide have our favorites and due to my age, the two Blues Rockers I've listened to the most throughout the years are Johnny Winter and Duane Allman. LONG LIVE THE PLAYERS OF THE BONE, STEEL, CERAMIC AND GLASS!
Duane is the king to us. Nobody ever got the "feeling" out of guitar like Skydog. And Johnny was a force of nature. Was lucky enough to see him with his brother Edgar and the fabulous Rick Derringer on 2nd guitar. What a show.
Exquisita lista, I live Chris Rea, gracias ❤❤❤❤
Really appreciate that, thanks for watching.
Wait, where's Lowell George? Just his solo on Tripe Face Boogie off of the Waiting for Columbus album should get him a nod. But you have many of my favorite slide players on there.
And Elmore practically invented slide guitar. Actually, just made me wonder, when was a slide guitar first recorded?
Lowell was definitely in consideration for the last few spots and could be ranked much higher certainly. This was all subjective and every time we watch it again we think the order should be different. LOL. Let's just say we would stick with #1 and #2 and then just pull the rest out at random and it wouldn't be a bad list. Again, Lowell, Jimmy Page, Harrison, Al Wilson, not to mention all the old black slide masters. But, we agree that Lowell George was incredible. Thanks for the comments and hope you enjoy the site. MOE
@@milesofentertainment What I like about this list is there are several guitarists that I'm not familiar with so your list gives me an incentive to dive into youtube and find out about those who I don't know.
My favorites on your list are Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, Ry Cooder, Sonny Landreth, Roy Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and Derek Trucks - not in that order.
@@1blastman Heck, we could put them in your order and who could argue? They're all great and by the time we got done uploading this video we already wished we'd have put Ry Cooder higher. He could very well be #1. But thanks for the comments and if you like the slide check out our "MOE Great Slide Guitar" playlist. You'll probably discover somebody new there. We'd recommend Justin Johnson for starters. He plays broomsticks, oil cans, shovels and all other kinds of slide guitars. He could have been at the top of our list too and we didn't even put him in the top 20. Hope to interact with you more down the road. MOE
@@milesofentertainment I live outside of New Orleans and go to Jazzfest every year. There's always great slide players there - Sonny Landreth and lately Samantha Fish play, and often we are treated to Camille Baudoin of the Radiators, Derek Trucks, Roy Rogers and many more. Worth a trip if you're in the neighborhood in late April and early May.
@@1blastman Was just looking at the lineup for the festival there. Wow. Samantha Fish has dominated our playlists for 5-6 years, maybe longer. Try to find every video on RUclips of her. What a talent. OMG. Should be illegal to be that good on a guitar and voice at the same time. And beautiful too. There is a God obviously or we wouldn't have the pleasure of watching her. Her live shows are incredible. And NO in the first week of May is looking more enticing as I type. We've traveled to see her before. Might see you there. LOL
1 Johnny Winter
2 Ry Cooder
3 Duanne Allman
4 Derek Trucks
5 Mick Taylor
There, I fixed it for you.👌🏼 You can insert the rest wherever you like.
In past responses we've admitted after a couple years we might change the order dramatically but not quite as much as you did. but your 2 top guys were players we said would move up. So we''ll settle kinda in the middle, we'd move Ry to #3 and Johnny #5 only because he only played blues & rock. Mick is perfectly fine with some jazz and Ry will play whatever music over the planet you want him to. Really, you could almost throw them in a bingo cage and any result would have a good argument. We just don't think anybody has the "feel" of DA or DT. Appreciate the comments. And we certainly can't argue with your taste.
Whoever made this collage didn't really lisent to much music in his life ! Have you heard of the most sensitive withe blues guitarist who raised slide riffs to the level of art ? PETER GREEN !❤
We love Peter Green but this video focused on players who primarily played slide and in early Mac that was Jeremy Spencer who is in the video. Peter Green is absolutely an incredible guitar player but we left him off for the same reason we left off Harrison, both were great slide players but only played it occasionally. We can only imagine how good he would have been without the issues that made him give up music for years.
Great video. Exposed me to some guitarists that I have never listened to. That needs correcting! Thank you.
Glad you discovered somebody new. That is the main purpose for this channel. We hope to expose people to new music that might not have found otherwise. All of our monthly playlists are designed that way. And we discover new artists every day as we watch our favorites playing with others. Thanks for watching and commenting. MOE
Check George Harrison on Alvin Lee's The Bluest Blues
George Harrison could have easily been on this list and was considered strongly, especially for the last few spots. Guess we just kinda leaned towards players who played primarily with a slide. Great players like George, Page, Dicky Betts and others are fantastic slide players but use one sparingly or frequently rather than most times. We love George Harrison with the Beatles and Solo and one of our favorite driving or flying companions is the bonus album from "All Things Must Pass" that's just jamming while the recorder was running with Harrison, Eric Clapton, Dave Mason on guitars and that recording session precipitated the forming of Derek and the Dominos. And George played a ton of fabulous slide on that triple album.
@milesofentertainment I wondered about that. George's slide served the song--it wasn't slide for slide's sake. Nothing wrong with that--but George would have been a fresh face on the list.
Duane Allman was very good. As far as technical skills, not one of those players would place themselves above Ry Cooder.
Ry Cooder is incredible and we'd move him up a couple spots after 3 years of reflection. We just love DA's guitar on everything he played on, whether Aretha Franklin or Herbie Mann or Cowboy. He made the songs better. As does Ry. Thanks for commenting.
Chris, el mejor, I love Chris ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Duane e Derek, stessa "famiglia, " i migliori , e vedere suonare anche lo "zio Butch, fa un certo effetto. Grandi
Jimmy page made those oldbad sounding blues songs cone to life and listenable...And all those guys on the video did the same.Who can listen to those old blues players and their singing...????Thank you ZZ top... Led Zepellin etc. etc.
Reflecting back after 3 years we wonder how we left JP out of the top 20??? If we did this list now it would be in a different order and maybe a handful of +/--'s to the list. So many greats left out because everybody can't be in. But Page was on another level and would be very high on our list of best rock guitar players.
Rod Price!
Aussie here - check out Dave Hole.
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.
SLKYDOG NUMBER ONE!
We’re in agreement❤
Although a very fine modern collection of slide 6 stringer's. You forgot Lowell George, Rod Price, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Ariel Posen, Robert Randolph and Hound Dog Taylor...just to mention a few.
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.
Hi, I love that solo by Roy Rogers, what song was it from and who was he performing with?
"Gnawin' on it" with the legendary Bonnie Raitt
@@milesofentertainment Thanks for that, it's an amazing solo, just wanted to see what song it went with
Thanks for watching
All very clever, but nothing like the early slide guitar players.
Yeah, it would be nice to have video of the early pioneers.
That johnny winter tho 😮
We should have had him higher, around 5th maybe. Some viewers have told us he should be #1.
You have most of the ABB players, rightfully so, I think Dickey Betts should be on the list just for the fact he carried the band for a lot of years playing all the slide parts
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.
Of course there are a lot of exceptional slide-players, that haven't been mentioned (Peter Green, David Lindley, Dickie Betts, Les Dudek, Leroy Parnell etc.).
But if you look at them all, its interesting how often and how much they played the Slide.
Therefore its deeply correct that Duane Allman is No. 1!
And by the way: I like it very much that Jimi Hendrix is not on this list...
David Lindley , Les dudek, Leroy parnell , Tommy talton?
Check out old friend - Allman brother ... no joke
Duane is our all time favorite and if there's a recording he''s on we haven't heard we'd love to find it.
Derek Trucks is currently the best.
Some of. The. Best
Dog. Walkers. On. The
P. L. A. N. E. T
Appreciate that...there were many more who easily could have been on there but it boiled down to personal preference. And if we made the video today it would certainly be in different order. LOL. And probably include at least a couple different players. But #1 would not change.
Les dudek, leroy parnell?
Any ranking is OK as long as you mention the criteria.
Obviously this one: are there (coloured) video's available of (non coloured) players.
No (semi) acoustic solo played music (by - also - white males like Leo Kottke and John Fahey or by African American ones like the great Fred McDowell - oh yes, there are video’s, even video’s in colour.
There exist even video’s of African American electric players in a band, like for instance John Littlejohn or the sometimes slide guitar playing Luther Allison. Where are they ?
Originality ? Then not Jeremy Spencer with the “old” Fleetwood Mac: only - capable - variations on some Elmore James licks. Sonny Landreth is almost the only one who really created his own technique and sound.
Soul ? In my humble opinion: a lot of players "show off" in the chosen fragments, but lack “soul" in their playing.
Genre ? “Smooth” sounds which are mostly based on the music of Tampa Red and Robert Nighthawk or the “wild” sounds like those of Kokomo Arnold (especially as Gitfiddle Jim - check out his “Paddlin’Blues”) or Elmore James and his many followers.
There is so much more slide guitar than the very limited choice delivered here.
It all started with the Hawaian players who were popular in de USA more than a century ago (from Joseph Kekuku to Sol Hoopii) and/or with homemade instruments like one string fixed on a block of wood - check out the music of Eddie "One String"Jones.
So much more ...
Luther Allison is in our "Voodoo Child All Star Tribute" video. We agree on the "showing off" but don't think that could be said of any of our top half dozen or so. And we kinda focused on electric guitar with the exception of Roy Rogers. And we leaned more toward players who predominately used a slide. But appreciate the comments and we'll check out the names we didn't recognize. Thanks, MOE
There is a Canadian who Rory Gallagher was a fan of… Paul Fenton.
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.
Neatly but not quite :
You obviously haven't heard this
m.ruclips.net/video/Wr_9yt4hsHg/видео.html
6:20 onwards
Quite possibly DT best solo ever (and therefore likely best slide solo of all time) and (with all due respect) the pupil surpasses the master and eclipses Duane
This is simply phenomenal I've listened to it hundreds of times and still the best
Enjoy
Peter
Ps the build the journey snd composition ("on the fly" no really *) Is mind blowing
* Derek is heavily influenced by Indian music and plays Raag style never really the playing the same by rote so this was what he was feeling that night and I reckonDuane was smiling up there :-)
We've often said we think DT is DA reincarnated...
Freddy Roulette, Earl Hooker?😢
You can add them to a long list of fantastic slide players we didn't include. If we did this video today it would look a lot different. After the top 2 anyway. LOL.
Alvin Lee Tom Crane Duane Allman Roy Clark Bonnie Rait Molly Tuttle Glenn Cambell Mick Taylor Lowell George Buddy Guy Mark Knofler Carl Perkins Toy Caldwell Steve Morse,You could do this all day thats why these best of's are silly at this point.
If you have video of Molly Tuttle, Roy Clark and Glen Campbell playing with a slide we'd love to see it. Cant' say we've seen Steve Morse use on either. But all great players you named. It's still fun to rate your favorites, that's all we did. Thanks for watching and commenting. MOE
oops did not see slide in title
No problem at all, we love all you mentioned above and although we like Alvin Lee and think his Woodstock performance was up there with the best of the festival, we actually love Alvin Lee more. Saw him as 2nd guitar for Clapton and watched video with all sorts of other great musicians and he always kills it. Search RUclips for Alvin Lee and Steve Morse "Country Boy." Sorry for the late response but just saw your reply or would have commented back sooner.
@@milesofentertainment ALVIN Lee and Steve Morse playing Country Boy? I think you mean ALBERT Lee and Steve Morse.
Tommy talton?
Wheres the King of Slide Guitar George Harrison Brother you forgot??
Danny Gatton!
Danny wasn't included because he didn't routinely use a slide but he opens our video "Great Guitar Solos-the Art of the Journey" with a fantastic slide solo using a beer bottle, foaming at that. Absolutely one of the best guitar players ever.
@@milesofentertainment Yeah that’s a great one!
Tycke och smak För mig kända: Jeff Beck Bonnie Raitt Ry Cooder George Thorogood . För mig är Ry Slide man!!!
Johnny Winter should be your #1.
JW was a badass to the nth degree. Saw him with Edgar and Rick Derringer. They scorched the stage. And you're right, he could be #1 Looking back after three years if we remade the video he would move up as would Ry Cooder. Gotta stick with Skydog at #1 but mix the rest of our top 10 randomly and it would be a good list. And Jimmy Page would be on the remake. Hindsight's close to 20-20 anyway.
No George Harrison??? 😳😳😳
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.
No Way roy rogers should be only ranked number 15
If we had done acoustic only he would have been at or near the top.
No. Bonnie Raitt and Rory Gallagher are two of the greats. Jeff Beck is so awesome that to single him out for slide is incongruous, and most of the others are generic players who add nothing to the genre.
We can't argue with Bonnie or Rory. This video represented who we've enjoyed listening to most over the years. If someone else's ears tell them Jimmy Page was the best or Al Wilson was the best we can't argue. It's your ears. To ours, nobody touches Duane. But it's not science, it's subjective.
George Thoroghgood on 18? Do your homework! He is at least 5 or 4.
We love to listen to George. And if he's your favorite we got no argument. Music is like food. Everybody has their own tastes. And we like George but not as much as the players we put at the top of the list. Curious who your top 5 are?
this is a joke right? It should have ben titled @) best of the white slide players. While the artists represented here are all fine musucians, they too would ask "Where are Muddy Waters, J B Hutto, Robert Nighthawk, or Elmore James for god sakes? " They don't shred" granted but there are other ways to rank them. How about some respect for the men who created the genre. Muddy waters on Long Distance call from the Fathers and sons album is all you need
We hear and feel music-we don't see color. We searched for videos of those and others with no luck except for Muddy Waters who we considered and like the other greats mentioned in the description was very hard to leave out. The last five on our list and the next 15 or so we left out were really hard to rank but it's all subjective and boiled down to our favorites and what they may have contributed to the slide body of work. And it never occurred to us they were all white until you pointed it out. But once you did and we thought about it, and not because he's black but because he's deserved Muddy probably should have been ranked on our list. We just felt that the last few were better. We just looked at another top 5 list that was almost identical to our two thru five but had Lowell George #1. We've seen list with Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Derek Trucks, George Harrison and others ranked #1. Elmore James would certainly have been at the top or near if we found live action of him but below is a link to a great video of his son who was pretty good too...maybe not quite his dad...but thanks for watching and commenting and if you already knew all 20 in our list we're impressed.
Elmore James Jr. "Broomdustin"
ruclips.net/video/ZuHKzEMcv7w/видео.html
@@milesofentertainment sounds fair.
Absolutely my first reaction too! This is a racist joke!
You searched for videos of Fred MrDowell….and found none. Right.
Eric.
Racist much?
Or just race baiting.
Mick Taylor is white. He Is not present.
Too much vibrato is cheating!
Can we ask which guys you're referring to? Thanks for watching. MOE
George Thorougood? FFS!
Granted, he's no Page or Harrison but we leaned towards guys who primarily played with a slide. George could definitely get a crowd going. If we did the video today the order would probably be quite different other than the top and George probably wouldn't make the cut.
Wow, no. Definitely not the top 20 best. A few good ones in there and you redeem yourself towards the end, but there are some really lousy slide players included in this list, and a lot of glaring ommisions.
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.
Yall Completely Left Out FogHat!🤔