Not sure Blues music has (or should have) real stictly defined boundries. To claim that one guitarist is the BEST could put some heavy blinders on the concluder. A few other greats that I haven't seen mention of:
Eddie Guitar Slim, SRV and Zappa were big fans. You might be too if you like the ice pick to the forehead tone later employed by Albert Collins. You can hear him alot in F.Z's playing. Unfortunately, he died from the hard life way too young.
Roy Gaines is good too, Okie Dokie Stomp from his Gainlining Lp is a wild adrenaline hurricane that's fun to go back to.
Jean Paul Bourelly, He's put out a ton of stuff and I haven't heard alot of it, but the Rock the Cathartic Spirit release explores the slow lysergic blues area Hendrix touched on as well as anything I've heard (an amazingly well recorded disc).
David Fiuczynski does highly intoxicating Blues warpage, he's criminally under recognized and waayyy too good to be left out of this kind of thread. Might want to start w/ Lunar Crush or Amandala.
