Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

I like Guitar Shorty a lot too!

I don't know who's better but Clapton has produced a lot more stuff over the years to judge by, hasn't he?

If the topic is British Blues guitarists, I'd toss Kim Simmonds into the competition. Not as high brow perhaps as those other two, but a talented guitarist who knows how to serve up a lot of fun blues rock + boogie.

MUDDY WATERS!!!!!!!

Eric Clapton doesn't play blues. There are 50 or 100 blues guitarists better than Clapton -- at blues. Clapton plays blues the way rock guitarists think blues should sound but since he doesn't really feel it, he can't play it convincingly. Blues guitarists respect Clapton's chops as a guitarist but they laugh at the notion that Clapton is considered a blues guitarist by suburban rock fans with bedroom guitars.

Phil

There was and is no better blues/rock guitarist than Mick Taylor. Just remember that he played his first live concert with the Stones at Hyde Park in London when he was only 17!! This was a hard act for even Robert Johnson to follow. The lead break on "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" has to be the best of all time. Pure Mick Taylor, a true bluesman not an ambitious person but a real artist.