Great forgotten slide guitar players

Mick Taylor is often forgotten by Keef.......

 

Yes, Rod Price has been sadly mostly forgotten, he was a great slide player, another one is Ritchie Blackmore.

 

Mac Gayden, Godfather of the Wah Wah slide

 

Well now we’re just listing slide guitar players, these kind of threads eventually turn into that

 

Ken Greer? I know him only from a few Red Rider songs and am not in the mood to dig through albums to check, but my impression is that he has played slide guitar well and often.

 

Peter Wells, Rose Tattoo and several other projects.

 

Dru Lombar (Grinderswitch):

 

Slideways is a great album.

 

Jimmy Nalls from Sea Level. I saw Sea Level twice in the Boston area and Jimmy Nalls was incredible as was the entire group.

 

Billy Gibbons

 

Previously mentioned... George Harrison.

 

Rainer Ptacek.

To come over this side of the Atlantic for a moment, Martin Simpson plays a mean slide.

 

Nice article on him in the new issue of Guitar Player, where he shows up quite often.

 

Actually the mention of Kelly Joe Phelps (who is an under-rated songwriter, I reckon) reminds me to throw in a local lad, who I first came across supporting Mr Phelps in Newcastle over a decade ago: John/Jonny (he's used both on different albums) Dickinson. In some respects he reminds me of Martin Simpson, in that he uses both blues and British folk music as a starting point (actually, seeing him live one time he used some slack tuned stylings on a couple of numbers).

 

My fave - and one most don't associate with slide - Syd Barrett.

 

Ward Dotson
& was there a story that Jim Morrison heard Robby Krieger playing slide around the time of the 1st lp and demanded it was put on all their songs? Thankfully he didn't get his way.

 

Lowell George
Mick Taylor
Rory Gallagher
Dickey Betts
Muddy Waters
Mike Randolph
Earl Hooker
Michael Hill

 

Hound dog taylor

 

Gary Rossington

 

Not sure what the definition of "Forgotten" is but Johnny Winter seems to be forgotten as I rarely see him mentioned on forums or Best Guitarist lists. Very underrated IMHO

 

Another great forgotten slide player George Thorogood

 

While Duane Allman gets all the praise Dicky Betts had to teach himself slide after Duane died and is a good slide player. I also think Warren Haynes is an amazing slide player who started in Dickie Bett's solo band before he joined the Allman Bros and started Govt Mule.

 

Peter Green of the original Fleetwood Mac

 

-Jeff Cotton
-Jeff McDonald
-Jeff Beck
-Furry Lewis (he actually used the cuff buttons on his
jacket instead of a bottleneck when I saw him play live)
-Johnny Winter
-Sonny Landreth