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My 15 y.o. son is starting to get pretty decent on both acoustic and electric guitars and I want to expose him to different music types. I've bought him a slide for Xmas and want to get or burn some CD's with some slide players. Lowell George (Little Feat) and Bonnie Raitt come to mind but who else? Thanks.

Look out for Elmore James, OK he died in 1963 but he is still known as 'King of the Bottleneck Blues'. His version of Robert Johnson's 'Dust my Broom' is a minor, or even major classic. Eric clapton usually plays his 'It hurts me too', when he does his blues sessions, but admits that even he can't get Elmore's full sound. In my view, Muddy Waters invented electricity just so Elmore could play bottleneck.

The other great bottleneck player in the acoustic world was ofcourse Johnson himself, there is a great book of his complete work by Woody Mann that gives all of the tabs for his songs including all of the bottleneck parts. Should be in all players libraries.

Colin

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I would check out Homespun Tapes for tutorial material on this, they have a pretty good selection on everything from bottle neck blues, bluegrass dobro and steel / lap steel guitar.

And get all the early Ry Cooder recordings, some Alman Brothers, the "Layla" album with Derek and the Dominoes. David Lindley's lap steel work with Jackson Browne is very nice if he is into that kind of thing.

Of course, the list of Delta blues guitarist could be pretty long too.

Looking at my list is pretty obvious that I'm not very up to date on the current state of slide guitar...

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Got an excellent VHS tape of Arlen Roth here(Advanced slide guitar), the guy knows his stuff too, different tunings and great tutorials! If you make a search on his name, you will
find him here:

http://www.arlenroth.com/disco.html

Thanks, guys. I appreciate your help.

Stephen, i just noticed the word disco in there but if you look through his website, i'm pretty sure you will stumble upon his rythm and blues stuff! Disco was probably just a collaboration with some artist!

If you haven't already found it, Check out "Planet Dobro" for a good list of slide players.

ELMORE JAMES, 'King of the Slide Guitar'

That's two votes for King James

I'll give one vote for Derek Trucks. My gosh. He just finished a world
tour with Eric Clapton. He does a lot of great work on Susan Tedeschi's
latest CD, "Hope and Desire." His solo CD's are also great.

Some youtube of Derek and Eric Clapton:

Queen of
Sapdes - wait for him at 3:20 in.
Cocaine -
Wait for him at 4:21 in.

[quote=Serge]Stephen, i just noticed the word disco in there[/quote]

DISCO! Potius mori quam disco(Death before Disco)

IIII ooouuuughta!!!!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Ok Billy, go get yo High Heel shoes and come and dance to the music!

Billy, i think you better
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Serge Poirier39057.2835300926

"Slide guitar" can be a lot of different things. Here is a clip from YouTube featuring Andreas Aase, who is local player here in Trondheim, Norway. He is playing a Weissenborn on this one, which is probably not what you think of first when you say slide guitar, but it is related. The interesting thing (to me at least) is that he is playing a "springar", which is traditional type of Norwegian dance, typically played on a Hardanger fiddle, but he is using the Weissenborn to make it into something else, and I think the instrument really lends itself to it. Who would've thunk??! The different types of slide guitar can be very interesting in this regard.

Andreas is an old friend, I'm building a guitar bouzouki for him now, which will be used in a duo setting with Hardanger fiddle for their takes on other types of traditional Norwegian music.

Andreas Aase, "Springar" on Weissenborn

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Lot of choices from you guys. Thanks. Now just have to get him to latch on to one and learn.

Michael--I think I got him a good metal one. From a pretty decent music star and the one they recommended. About $20.