Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

Clapton, Hands down

SRV hands down, but only if Jimi Hendrix is not considered blues.
I would pick Hendrix as the all around "guitar god".

Clapton was great...WAS....it seems to me he only reached great heights when he was pushed by a formidable partner in his own band...Cream (Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker), Bluesbreaker days (John Mayall) etc. In a way, Paul McCartney was the same: he needed Lennon. As for BLUES, I vote 4 Buddy Guy, BB King, SVR, Kelly Joe Phelps, Jimmy D. Lane, and among the young guys Derek Trucks and the lead guitarist of Indigenous (forgot his name...Manny something?

Clapton was a decent blues guitarist. He was popular, but he didn't play anything spectacular. He wrote some good pop/blues songs, but to say he was a great, I don't know - show me some challenging riffs that he did. I haven't heard anything new or difficult to play. BB King had more expressiveness in his playing and many others have as well. SVR, well his guitar style was redundant to me, but he had more talent in his big toe than Clapton.

There are many others nowadays. Clapton was yesteryear.

Rob

All I can say is that with SRV, Clapton, and Jonny Winter at my disposel as well as others for electric blues style guitar I find myself putting in Jonny Winter.

Now for blues try track 8 on the Greetings From The West DVD by Dan Fogelberg. People can play and then people can play from the soul. Speed is not what it is about.

I don't know if the song is on the CD or not.

Just one persons opinion, who does not have the extensive listening experience that others here have.

Remember to take the system as a whole.