As a longtime slide player myself I would agree there is no one best
player...my fav's are Jerry Douglas #1 hands down , love David Gilmour
and I gotta throw Johnny Winter in there ... Roy Rogers kicks it too.
the list goes on.
Maybe not the best, but my Grandpop was a great guitar player, and he could rock a slide. He had a dobro at one time, and a pedal steel. I need to get those CD's of him playing from my cousins. He passed in '92.
So nice to grow up with great guitar as a background.
REALLY love all the offerings here folks, great stuff!! Probably should have called the thread "Favorite Slide Guitar Player", not Best. I'm listening to everything here and am having a great day off work with yummy coffee in a robe gettin' my slide on!
I am sure I am having more fun playing it than my family has listening to it.
My only hope is what Duane Allman said when he started playing slide.
''I heard Ry Cooder playing some time ago and I said, Man that's for me. And I got me a bottle and went in the house for about three weeks and I said 'Hey man, we've got to learn the songs-the blues to play on the stage. I love this. This is a gas'. So we started it and for a while it was everybody looking at me and thinking, 'Oh No! He's getting ready to do it again! Everybody just lowered their heads-start it off fast and get it over with. But then I got a little better at it, and improved it, but now everybody's blowing it all out of proportion. It's just fine for me as a relief from the other kind of playing"
Until I "get a little better" I have nicknamed my slide "Guantanamo"
Let us know!