Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

If clapton plays the blues, what the heck does B.B. King play? Or herbert sumlin, buddy guy , etc........

Rok,

Have you seen Clapton in concert over the last decade or so? He basically plays ONLY the blues: straight up, and - more often than not - acoustic. You may (or may not) dig his playing, but the music is every bit as much the blues as anything BB has played. In fact, it's often exactly the same songs. And BB's influence is very much evident in EC's style.

Marty

BTW Fans have been bitching about these shows since "From The Cradle". Personally - when he's having a good night - I like them just about as much as I liked the rock 'n' roll shows that he used to do.

Herbert Sumlin?

Hubert Sumlin. Thanks for the correction. He played guitar in howlin' Wolf's band. He also cut some CDs under his own name.

If you stick to the original question and compare these two guitarists when both were dedicated blues guitarists in the late 60s, I would like to know any song that Peter did that excels Eric's playing on "Double Crossing Time", and "Have You Heard" while he was with John Mayall, or "Politician" and "Born Under A Bad Sign" during his time with Cream.