Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

If you are truly a lover of the blues than you know that the artist is just a conduit to the music. So their is no best.

Their may be artist that do this better "for you" than others but that does not make them the best.

Clapton is no doubt a talented guitar player. However, as it has been mentioned he is not really a blues guitarist.

Listen to Son House, R.L. Burnside, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lightin Hopkins, T-bone Walker, Elmore James, Hubert Sumlin, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie Johnson, Ship James, Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Freddie King, Jimmy Dawkins, Albert Collins, Earl Hooker, J.B. Hutto, Luther Allison, Guitar Gabriel, Otis Rush, Junior Kimbrough, and John Lee Hooker to name a few. After listening to them you will realize that Clapton does not play like this.

Does it mean that Clapton is less of a guitar player than those mentioned. Probably not. Is Clapton a better blues guitarist? Probably not.

To show you how opinionated guitarist can be Rolling Stone comprised there list of the best guitarist. I do not agree with this list or for that matter understand how you could rate them as they have different styles. Even so look where Clapton appears.

Irish65. Clapton is the ultimate blues guitarist. There was an album out in the sixties called Clapton,Beck,Page.
A cut called "Tribute to Elmore " by Clapton is a blues masterpiece. Good luck finding the album. I was a teen in the sixties and was into Clapton big time. He was hot. He was bigger than Hendrix. Jimi was great with effects and feedback, but he avoided jamming with other guitarists like the plague. Hendrixs' biggest weakness was spontaneous
improvising. When Hendrix went on stage with other guitarist's, he would fly into his own thing and wouldn't
blend in. His intent was to overide to avoid improvising.
Clapton was the Grand Master of improvising. You really need to spend a lot of time to hear the best blues guitar ever, Clapton, and listen to his works between 1965 and 1968. There are many albums of blues work from Clapton from
that time that would knock you out of your sit, but those albums are hard to find. Check out John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Clapton from the sixties, a masterpiece. Clapton took blues and advanced it to a whole new level, intergrating blues with hard rock themes. Clapton intergrated blues with the structures
of heavy metal and hard rock, which he invented, so it was
an easy ride for Hendrix and others to ride on his coat tails of what he pioneered.

>>11-16-10: Audiozen
There was an album out in the sixties called Clapton, Beck, Page.<<

No, that's not correct.

The album is called "Guitar Boogie" and was released in 1971 on RCA.

Great album but the total playing time is only 25 minutes.

I really really truly do not understand how on earth anyone who knows what blues music is could possibly even try to call Clapton a 'bluesman'
He's not even American for gods sakes!
If it weren't for JJ Cale..........
Rocker ? Yes. Bluesman? Sorry, not feeling it here.
I guess it's another one of those Chet Baker-Miles Davis things... I'll never understand.

I like all of the names mentioned but lets not forgot Stan Webb