Who is your favorite slide guitar player? (page 2)

bubble

Does slide guitar only exist in the USA?

I've never heard of any of these people.

Nope, Eric Clapton is an excellent slide player, So was Brian Jones of the Stones, Jimmy Page, John Mayall,Many of the blues influenced brit invasion folks play slide very well. "In my time of Dying" By Zeppelin has an excellent slide intro.... Also, Angus Young (Iknow, they're from Oz, but were born in england) is another excellent slide player.

While we're on the subject, let's talk about some of the ladies who play slide, Bonnie Raitt, and, even better imho, Rory Bloch.

Shawn10538

David Lindley blows all those guys away! (played with Jackson Browne and El Rayo X.)

Leolaia

Does Hawaiian lap steel guitar count?

Shawn10538

George Harrison also rocked regular steele guitar.
Of course we have to make a distinction here between regular slide guitar, lap steele, pedal steele and dobro.
Pedal steele is one of the hardest instruments to play, challenging the bag pipes in dificulty. Sadly I don't know the name of even one pedal steele player.

Leolaia

Shawn....Harrison is definitely among my favorites...his style had a real sweet, whimsical sound to it.

Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, blues slide guitar had its origins in Hawaiian slide, which formed a rather popular genre of recorded music in the 1910s. I can dig up the urls of some of these recordings (on Edison wax cylinders) that you can listen to...amazing what is on the internet now.

Leolaia

Here are some good examples:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/1000/1284/cusb-cyl1284d.mp3 [1916, "Hapa Haole Hula Girl," by Helen Louise and Frank Ferera]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/5000/5545/cusb-cyl5545d.mp3 [1917, "Akahi Hoi", by Ford Hawaiians]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/5000/5390/cusb-cyl5390d.mp3 [1917, "Hawaiian Hula Medley," by Helen Louise and Frank Ferera]

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/5000/5773/cusb-cyl5773d.mp3 [1918, "Aloha Land" by the Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra]

These are probably the oldest slide recordings you'd ever hear, and they're not that bad. Check them out.

choosing life

Hard to pick just one. Bonnie Raitt, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton and many more I can't think of right now.

avishai

Does Hawaiian lap steel guitar count?

Of course!! It's one of the early influences on both country and blues, tho there's evidence of slide as far back as the early 1800's w/ slaves using a "diddley bow."

avishai

Pedal steele is one of the hardest instruments to play, challenging the bag pipes in dificulty. Sadly I don't know the name of even one pedal steele player.

How 'bout Robert Randolph? Lloyd Maines (Natalie Maines of dixie chicks' Father)?

Yep, Pedal steel is hard, your doing like, 10 things at once, picking, sliding, using the pedals w/ your feet and pitch bending with a tone bar around your knee....

Who is your favorite slide guitar player?

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