Who is your favorite blues guitarist


Such a hard question. there are so many people who have influenced blues guitar. I'm born and raised in chicago been to rush street many times, so the blues have always been a part of my life. But to me no one has ever done to the blues what STEVIE RAY VAUGHN did. He was able to do things on the guitar that artists are still trying to do today, and I think he gets forgotten because he has been gone so long, but if you ask most blues artists today who they thought was the best most would put him in thier top 3. One of my greatest blues recordings of all time was A CD made in 83' called in session" It was done with my other great blues guitarist ALBERT KING. If SRV would have lived he would have done things that would have blown us all away!!
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"Eric Clapton is to the Blues what Pat Boone was to Little Richard. Shallow homogonized fluff."

Yea, he can get boring but his earlier stuff was simply amazing
WOW..way too many, but a Few that haven't been mentioned:

Joe Bonamassa
Walter Trout
Danny Bryants Red Eye Band
Rory Gallagher
Albert Cummings
Mato Nanji..from Indigenous

I could name more but....
Koch is a good guitarist, I don't think I would classify him as a blues guy, not really sure where he fits :-)
Indigenous are a really overlooked group, maybe because they sound like a Stevie clone, but thats not such a bad thing. I would LOVE to see them come to the Dallas area this year.