Your favorite slide guitar records?

There is sublime slide playing on all of Martin Simpson's albums, I particularly like 2011's Purpose and Grace with a great version of "In The Pines".

 

Kevin Borich - Angels Hand


Kevin Borich - Goin' Somewhere
Kevin Borich "Going Somewhere"

 

John Cipollina because NATURALLY.

 

Some fine playing going on here. RIP Peter Haycock.

 

Johnny Winter "Nothin' But The Blues"

 

Lowell George (Little Feat) "Teenage Nervous Breakdown"

 

Mississippi Fred McDowell "I Don't Play No Rock and Roll". Liked to play with a porkchop bone, heh.

 

Robbie Kreiger - Doors - Moonlight Mile

 

Ry Cooder
David Lindley

 

Mountain "Great Train Robbery"

 

Leo Kottke

 

Led Zeppelin "In My Time Of Dying"

 

Brothers in arms - dire straits

 

+1 Johnny Winter.
Eric Sardinias is also crazy good, same style as Winter.

 

Joe Walsh (pick any example, they're consistently good)
Ry Cooder (Memo from Turner, all the slide parts on John Hiatt's "Bring the Family", and others)

 

Hound Dog Taylor's Alligator recordings.
Beggars Banquet through Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones
The early Allman Brothers albums with Duane Allman
The Faces albums with Ronnie Wood
Some of Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher's albums
Derek Trucks Live at the Georgia Theatre and Roadsongs
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East-West
Canned Heat - Boogie With and Future Blues
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
The Little Feat albums with Lowell George
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

 

I've always been partial to Duane, Ry, Lowell, George (Harrison) and Warren.

 

May I offer Australia's finest blues guitarist Dave Hole to the mix
DAVE HOLE http://www.davehole.com

 

Earl Hooker {Two Bugs and a Roach} , amazing player, could play perfectly articulate in standard tuning. Played the in between notes accurately too. John Lee's relative, but, plays nothing like John Lee. An incredible musician. Died way too young.

Sonny Landreth {Elemental Journey} , maybe the most revolutinary slide player alive. His fretting behind the slide is so unique. Amazing player. His instrumental album is my fave, but, he's cool behind John Hiatt too. Half his vocal songs are so so, but his solos are always jaw dropping.

My fave by far is Elmore James, anything he did i dig. His voice along with his attack and distorted f ed up tone, just awesome. He and James Brown do no wrong for me.

 

I'd add Bonnie Raitt. She's not necessarily the fastest or best but I love her tone, what she chooses to play.

 

I can't belive i didn't think of Bonnie. I love throwing hear into guitar discussions. One of the best concerts i ever saw was a dual bill with her and Lyle Lovett. She is just awesome. Her tone and taste is just perfect. Such a great great player, to me. She really follows Lowell George and keeps him alive. She has stated this in interviews. Which is super cool. I love Bonnies playing so much excellent player. You know it's her when she plays.

I wish she'd do an instrumental record with her and a small combo. Especially her piano player, guy from New Orleans. At the show i saw he stopped time with his solo. Never had an experience like that.

 

Kelly joe phelps, lead me on

 

Pete Wells of Rose Tattoo