Jazz/blues guitarist suggestions for SRV fan.

There are a lot of great players mentioned here but the only ones that sound like SRV are Duarte and Kenny Wyane Sheppard. There is a Native American blues band Indiginous that nails the SRV thing. Albert King is the source of most of SRV's licks without the volume. THe live disk of the two of them togeather is way cool. Old Master, young lion jamming and BSing. They both know their place but they both seem to have a feeling who is going to rule the pack eventually. Room Full of Blues, Under one Roof has some killer guitar playing where swing mixes with the texas thing backed by a killer horn band.

Piezo... I think you hit it right on the head. SRV did
get most of his stuff from Albert King. Also i did
see Indiginous and the guitar player does sound quite a
bit like Stevie.. I was impressed... His sister wails on
the drums too. Pretty cool stuff. I also agree with you
on Kenny Wayne.. he's alright but just doesnt do it for me.

I just quickly scaned over artist listed on this thread... There's some great ones. The only i can think of that i dont remember seeing is Buddy Guy.

Another vote here for Buddy Guy - you just might end up preferring him to SRV. Ehart - we share similar tastes - Hoodoo Man Blues is wonderful and has some extremely tasty work by Buddy - lovely gems sprinkled throughout a chuggingly all-time great album.

If you want to hear a texas tinged youn-un (at least he was when the cd was released) get a copy of the Ian Moore disc with blue sky on it. Not sure of the name It has a picture of him setting on a super with the band standing around. Great playing and tooo soulful. Buddy used to do it for me but Luther Allison would tear him up if he didn't pass on. Duke Robillard leans to the jazz side but he is killer. Tinsley Ellis, great guy, great showman, great singer, songwriter....way under rated. IMO he smokes ole buddy in a lot of ways too. You just can't lose with those blues.

Went out and got Ronnie Earl's latest all instrumental album, forgot the name. He is certainly talented and I love the album. I am going to pick up some more of his albums since I like his style.

Got a Kenny Wayne Shepard disc too, again forgot the name. I'm here at work and can't recall the albums. Kenny Wayne is good and has the Stevie Ray sound...but...it's just not the same.

Keep the suggestions coming guys, this is a great thread. I'll probably ending up looking into most of the artists mentioned here. I've been on a Jazz/Blues guitarist search and this is a great reference list.