Do you agree that Elmore James is the most influential slide guitarist of the post-war period?

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I would agree that Elmore is one of the most influential, but there are many others. Robert Lockwood Jr., Johnny Shines, and Robert Nighthawk all recorded prior to WWII, but were relatively unknown until after the war. Similarly, Son House was not widely known until his "rediscovery". Subsequently, he was a huge influence on many future slide players-notably Bonnie Raitt, who shared a manager with him. Muddy was one of the first to utilize amplification to create new sounds, rather than merely to make his instrument louder. In terms of sheer numbers of people influenced, Duane Allman may be the most influential post war guitarist due to the number of records/ticket sales involved..

I would say it would Glen Kiser. You probably ha vent heard of him because he is with Word Records ( a christian record company) . Even though he is Christian musician I like his stuff taken from a musical stand point , take the lyrics out of his music and you got some really good licks
I also would say that sonny boy williams is also good

Too many to name

Satan H, next time read the question so your eagerness to talk about unknown contemporary guitarists won't over-ride your logic. Oh wait, you're on a PR stunt for religion anyway.

To the REAL question, without a doubt Elmore James influenced every electric slider player who came after him, including musicians on Christian labels. He was the first electric slide guitarist I remember hearing as I went backwards into blues and he doesn't seem to have predecessors. Yes, there were many acoustic players but Elmore brought the sting to the guitar.

And the Christian pusher thinks a harmonica player was a slide guitarist? *laughing*

Hard to say, Muddy Waters was prety influential as far as I can tell.

Seems like a lot of folks at the period were influencing each other as well.

But you can hear Muddy's early sound in the Lomax recordings, and how it shaped and morphed by the time he got to Chess.

Johnny Winter is right up there Bubba.

eh, what about Hound Dog Taylor? Anyone that could summon that much tone from a cheap @$$ Silvertone guitar is a demigod amongst all guitarist...it's the reason why I'll never play slide, I could practice slide forever and never learn to play with the kind of intesity that was just so much a part of his own being...the man channeled the blues...

I would say yes only because when I think slide guitar, and when people imitate slide guitar, it is the sound Elmore James made famous. I'm a bit biased though as he is one of my favorites. Probably Elmore James reincarnated as George Thorgoode. That's the epitome of slide, IMO. The best was Duane Allman, IMO. Sonny Landreth is very taleneted but I don'y like his sound.
The slide players that really boogie (Dave Hole and those dudes) play like Elmore James more so than any other I could name. Just my 2 cents.
Oh yeah Neptunes. How could I forget Johnny Winter!!! He's probably the best BLUES slide player alive, but I'm real biased and real opinionated.

I have to agree and here is why.Of the many slide players in the "post-war era"-Elmore James is the one who was among the first and covered by most .His songs have been covered by artists as diverse as George Thorogood(Madison Blues and The Sky Is Crying) to Eric Clapton and SRV (the same song-The Sky Is Crying).He was also covered also by the late ,very great Hound Dog Taylor(Shake Your Moneymaker is a classic).There are other better known guitarists such as Duane Allman(a personal favorite) who have helped popularize slide playing,but Elmore James was the one who made them all stop and put a slide on their finger.
***I 'm a HUGE Muddy Waters fan.I saw him play too many times too count,but he was nowhere near the slide influence as Elmore James.Noone would ever confuse an Elmore James song with one of Muddy's.And Muddy was the father of the Chicago Blues..Also,Johnny Winter was a disciple of Muddy.And while Jonnny is an awesome player in his own right,he isn't the influential figure of Elmore James(or Muddy Waters,for that matter)***
For listening pleasure however,check out Roy Rogers and Sonny Landreth.They are both great slide guitarists of today.