Please recommend some blues guitarists...

I perhaps read about Korner in Keef's book? Don't know much about him, though.

True. It was good for everyone - though best for the white guys, I suspect.

Whatever. Too many tragic stories about Pat Boone getting a hit with Little Richard's music, etc. It's a sad part of our history. I am thrilled that we have the music, though.

 

Very likely. I use to have an Alexis Korner album that had, among many others. Brian Jones playing on it.

 

Great album for sure, but personally I would put it ahead of his Cobra recordings or his output on Chicago! The Blues! Today! Led Zeppelin got exposed to "I Can't Quit You Baby" via the latter of course.

 

Thank you for mentioning Guitar Slim. I was suprised he didn't come up sooner.

 

Graham Bond also had some big names IIRC

 

The compilation "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" has some obscure artists but some tracks that fit the OP's description of dirty sounding guitar. SRV raved about this one in interviews:



Track listing

• 1Sly Williams - Boot Hill 2:15
  
  
• 2Sly Williams - I Believe in a Woman 2:25
  
  
• 3Lafayette Thomas - Weekly Blues 2:35
  
  
• 4Lafayette Thomas - The Thing 2:11
  
  
• 5Mojo Watson - You Know You Don't Want Me 2:27
  
  
• 6The Masked Marvel's Buddy - Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues N°2 3:16
  
  
• 7Earl Hooker - Yea, Yea 1:59
  
  
• 8Earl Hooker - Do the Chicken 2:33
  
  
• 9George Smith -All Last Night 2:23
  
  
• 10Guitar Tommy Moore - Your Car Machine 3:56
  
  
• 11Guitar Tommy Moore - I Ain't Botherin' Nobody 2:26
  
  
• 12Calvin Leavy - Cummins Prison 4:40
  
  
• 13Mojo Watson - I Keep on Trying 2:48
  
  
• 14Mojo Watson - Look-A-There 2:19

 

Another classic from "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama". The "dirty" solo starts at 2:28:

 

Rory Gallagher didn't always play the blues, but when he did, whew!

 

Pee Wee Crayton was a T-Bone Walker disciple, but a bit "greasier" in his playing:

 

Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Gotta Move.

The Rolling Stones covered this on Sticky Fingers. McDowell responded by releasing an album called "I Don't Play No Rock 'N' Roll."

 

KINGFISH

15 year old Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram from Clarksdale, Miss.

http://www.guitarworld.com/meet-15-year-old-blues-guitarist-christone-kingfish-ingram-video



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsrhpuhJ1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPwl6eSNUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pJ5585ipmY

 

You want gritty...
Check out Sit Down Servant.
Gordie Johnson from Big Sugar.
Amazing gritty gospel blues album that came out a year or so ago.
www.sitdownservant.com

 

I don't think Robert Cray has been mentioned yet. Now, that's a blues guitarist whose style fits his music to a T.

 

He's been overproduced and he's been underproduced ... this one got it exactly right.
GET IT !!

 

AND it doesn't get better than Peter Green in his prime !!

 

Too many recommendations here,here's one more:


The best ever one note solo starts at 1:43

 

I am still hoping that one day Roy Buchanan will get a box set with some rarities included.

 

As Eddie Trunk states in the comments, "One of the greatest players I have had the pleasure to know and one of the most underrated on a national level."

 

If you put the emphasis on GUITAR, you need Buddy Guy-Sweet Tea and Luther Allison-Live In Chicago.

 

Charlie Sexton

 

Son House, who was covered by the White Stripes:

 

Henry Vestine