Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

Dude, you must be kidding?

Phasecorrect gets my vote. Jeff Beck continues to grow and experiment, not content to play it safe and comfortable. Check out the energy and chops on "You Had It Comming"

Catch John Renbourn doing his version of Robert Johnson and you will be blown away. The man is a master guitar player and can play blues, renaissance, medieval, ragtime, jazz....whatever. I just saw him in Berkeley on his recent tour last week. He'll be at Columbia University for five nights, I think.

He has a couple of live albums with Stefan Grossman that are spectacular and full of blues (cocaine blues, methinks is on one and great) and ragtime.

RE: Cpdunn99.wow...very old thread...very relevant subject. Is the auther still around? I printed it for further study. One entry: from Cpdunn99..there are blues guitarists...there are blues-sounding guitarists, and that's Clapton. Damn!...well said.

I think Clapton had the major inspiration to play the blues. Certainly Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green and Duane Allman are excellent players too.
I'm sorry but I don't think Johnny Winter can really be considered a great bluesman. Probably because he reminds me Hendrix too much (for example hear the many live versions of the fantastic "Red House" and then the many Winter's blues-rock standards like "It's my Own Fault").
Also don't forget that the greatest slide player in the blues-rock area was certainly Duane Allman. He inspired a lot of slide guitar players from Michael Messer to Dave Hole.

bye.