Cool list, I didn't know of all these people. thanks for sharing. Here are few you might like Gideon Boley, Drew Smithers, Dan Toppo, Ariel Posen, Joey Landreth, Dylan Palmiero, Sam Berce and Johnny Stachela all these guys are bottle neck slide players. Hope you enjoy some or all of them!
@@BenFletcherGuitar Dave Hole is another if you haven't checked. I'm sure you know AJ Ghent if you mention his dad in this video but if not check him too
He's really not unknown, but some people may not be familiar with David Lindley. Check out his performance with his band (at the time) El Rayo X of Mercury Blues on a console steel.
Wonderful player. Yes, he has interesting approach to playing. Years ago when I first found him, I did think about getting his Plane Talk book. I probably still should, ha!
Here are a few more worth checking out. Peter Haycock, Jack Pearson, Sam Mitchell, Glen Kaiser, Jeremy Spencer, Dave Kelly,Ron Thompson, Ben Andrews, Gwyn Ashton,Tony McPhee,Mojo Stu, Michael Jerome Brown,Rick Payne, John Hammond, My favourite seen live was Rory Gallagher RIP - tore the place apart.
@@BenFletcherGuitar I have talked to him about getting lessons from him. I am willing to join after my entrance examination is over. www.debashishbhattacharya.com/contacts.php here is his contact details. As far as I know he has more foreigner students than Indians, lol.
Great video, it has inspired me and gained you a subscriber. Can’t believe you don’t have a ton more hits! Do you know what type of instrument Harry Manx is playing in your video? Please make a part two! I will sit through the entire thing! So don’t worry about the length! Again, great job!
Well, finally a channel for us slide players! Just been listening to Kelly Joe these days, amazing tone and voice. You should check out Chris Whitley and John Campbell if you haven't already. Also, could you make a guide to getting that aggressive modern slide tone that is all over your videos? Cheers mate
Kelly Joe, is awesome isn't he! I hadn't heard of either of those two guys, so thanks for the heads up. I'm immediately digging what, Chris Whitley is all about. I'm going to do a video soon of a drive pedal that I use for absolutely everything, the Barber Small Fry Burn Unit. It's pretty much my sound in a box. It's pretty similar to the thing Lee Roy Parnell, supposedly uses and he gets a great slide sound. Thanks for the comment mate, Ben.
Seeing that you have so many Canadians on your list, you've likely heard of Ian Thornley from Big Wreck. He doesn't play slide often, once or twice per album, but I dig his playing and the band is phenomenal! Under the Lighthouse is one of my favorite Big Wreck songs with slide.
Yeh, great player. There's some nice videos of his solo stuff on the Suhr channel. I don't think I'd heard of him when I made this video though. I also hadn't noticed the number of Canadian players and didn't realise he was one of them. Thanks for the comment, Ben.
Check out Jack Pearson if you don’t know him. He played the Duane Allman parts for the Allman Brotaqhers for a couple years in late 90’s but now just plays around Nashville and is the guitar player locals tell visitors to see, There’s a great Jack Pearson playlist at Miles of Entertainmaent channel and he’s in their video called “Slide Guitar-Top 20 Best of the Best.”
Yeh he's a great player. Good understanding of jazz vocabulary too. Check out the video of him and Roy Hoffman jamming, pretty mesmerizing stuff. Cheers, Ben.
I’m new to slide so I will check your list out. I’m trying to re ignite my passion for guitar again and I would like to try my hand at slide. I ordered a Rock slide glass slide today. I was wondering, do you mainly use standard slide tuning? I am inspired by your slide work 🙏
Hi mate, some great players in this list I'm sure it'll inspire you. I play mainly standard, as that way I can just play it in any song when doing a gig. I also play in open G, I find it gives me a more rootsy sound for some things. There are great players that play in standard and open tunings, so both are useful. Thanks for the compliment, Ben.
Saw Greg Leisz twice in the last couple of years with Jackson Browne, once as a duo and once with the full band, Amazing! And I thought I heard some Kirk Lorange in your style (meant as a compliment). Great players!
Wow awesome! I think the 1st time I heard slide guitar, was in Jackson Browne records. Thank you, that is a compliment he's a great player. I haven't copied any lines per se, but I remember when 1st looking for slide players he came up on UA-cam years ago, but has disappeared a bit in recent years. Certainly never comes up in my suggested listings now anyway. I definitely took the concept of fretting behind the slide from him and Sonny (who is a massive influence). Ben
@@BenFletcherGuitar I think it's the feel you and Kirk L have in common. So good! And David Lindley's stuff on Jackson's early records is still a huge influence on me. Perfect notes, perfect tone.
Great video...I went to see Steve Vai at Lynard Skynyrds club in Jax Fl and Eric Sardinas was the opening act...I was completely blown away by this guy...He was like the voodoo witch doctor from some Cajun swamp possessed by the spirit of Hendrix playing a National Resonater guitar with Marshall amps, fuzz face and wah pedals...I've never heard anything like it ever...Inspired me to pick up a slide to try and capture some of that mojo in my guitar playing...Don't really like the indian influence I hear in a lot of slide players, reminds me of those kazoos that my kids play driving me crazy...
Aubrey Ghent / Derek Trucks comment… absolutely can you hear the influence. I love Mr Trucks but I must confess, never heard of Aubrey til just now. Must go listen some more methinks!
@@BenFletcherGuitar You're no slouch either Ben ! Love your playing too. I was given an old 10 string lapsteel by a chap I worked with doing tree surgery. He always wanted an electric guitar so he could be the next Hank Marvin but his Dad was into country so that's what he got 😂Subsequently it sat in his barn for 40yrs. It was covered in straw and bird shit but with a good few hours spent, it's cleaned up lovely and the original P90 style pup still sounds great. The foot pedals and the knee pedal all works too.
@@SONGSTICKS Thanks man, appreciated! Haha, what kind of music do you want to learn to play son, Country or Western?! Lap steel has always looked interesting to me, but I'm not sure my IQ is high enough to work all the levers! I watched a video about it once and my eyes started glazing over like I was back in a senior school maths class...Love the sound of them though.
Actually i just realized that i met Jerry Douglas un San Clemente California back in 2008 and he was friend of My roonmate and and i didnt know who he was but the cool thing is that he played one song using the Slide which it was My first time watching somebody that plays the guitar using the Slide and i was so impressed that i told him that if he could teach me to play that song! He didnt gave me an answer and after that night in My roonmate's house i never see him again until i Saw this video. Also i m pretty impressed how Jimmy Page plays a few songs using the Slide! Like My favorite is "In My time of dying"! Really awesome!
That's cool, man! He's an exceptional player for sure. You know I've never seen Jimmy using a slide, I'll have to look that up. I had no idea that was a thing, should be interesting!
Error #1: Brother Dege - Too Old To Die Young / Girl Who Wept Stones Error #2: Erja Lyytinen - Broadcast ( Studio ) / King of the Slide Guitar / The Sky Is Crying album. Error #3: Roy Rogers - Walkin' Blues These three are best than the most of the video's lists. Eric Sardinas with I Cant Be Satisfied / 8 Goin South and such is the best one with no doubt. Good catch there.
Hi there, thanks for the comment. There's no 'error' as the title of my video says great players, not greatest. For instance I mention Sylvester Weaver, not because he's the best, but because he was the first to be recorded. So not an error so much as an omission. I appreciate English is not your first language though, I couldn't begin to hold a conversation in any other language, so fair play to you. Roy Rodgers is excellent, I've seen him before, very good at getting a vintage type sound. Ben.
I like Joanna Connor. Steve Balkan and Damon Fowler. Awesome list though KJP...been listening to him since his Roll Away the Stone... Justin Johnson is a good youtube phenom too
Nice selection of great slidemen there Ben for sure. Just love KJP and the late Chris Whitley especially. Check out Joey Landreth another wonderful Canadian player, no relation to the marvellous Sonny Landreth of course.
Thanks for the comment, Stuart. This video originally had more names in it and I did mention both Sonny and Joey Landreth in it, but the video was getting way too long, so I edited out half of the players! I didn't think anybody would sit through such a long list! You're right, both great players of course. Sonny Landreth was the 1st person I saw doing the fretting behind the slide thing, which blew my mind. It's where I believe Joey took inspiration and his band mate, Ariel Posen, who's also a good slide player. I'd never heard of Chris Whitley, until Wew mentioned him in the comments below.
Not many people know about Earl Hooker anymore, even less David Hole - who plays slide guitar in a uniquely different way! There must be something in the water down under, because Australian guitar players seem to have something extra? There are too many to name, I understand, but everybody should know about those two imho. Cheers!!
Earl Hooker was great! I've only fairly recently been turned on to him. Out of the earlier electric bluesmen, I really like how succinct his style is. Dave Hole is awesome too, how many people play with it on their 1st finger?! Very cool suggestions, cheers mate.
Lovely player and not well known, nice suggestion. Oddly I know about this guy, because he's a friend of a friend, although we've never met. The guy I play with on a regular basis was actually asked to play drums on Kevin's album. Small world!
I used to play a lot of the same venues as Eric Sardines back in Huntington Beach California. I wasn't impressed by him. He is mostly a lot of theatrics. A great player like Derrick is Mike Gannon an amazing slide player. Check him out.
Yeh, cool player. He used to come up quite a bit in the early days of UA-cam, but I've not seen much of him in recent years. I wonder if he still tours Europe? There was a great clip of him playing a dark, maybe walnut 335 years ago at some outside concert in Australia. I remember enjoying that one a lot. Thanks for the comment, Ben.
Loved your playing at the start of the vid - crank 'er up in the mix! PLEASE check out KEVIN BREIT!! A true genius not just slide, but mandolin, banjo, composer, singer/songwriter, aclaimed studio musician (Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson...). Search for "Folk Alarm Skedaddle Kevin Breit..." AND "Congregation of 2 -The Sisters Euclid -@ the REX..." Be patient - he builds to the climaxes.
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For me the most amazing thing about Kelly Joe Phelps is that I have never heard him play any song the same way twice
So refreshing to not be shat upon by another opinion of who's the greatest! Enjoy them all!
Exactly! No top 10's, just giving people the heads up about great players I'd found. Thanks for the comment, Ben.
Hopefully someone will get some inspiration from these guys. Let me know if you have some obscure slide players I should take a listen to, Ben.
Cool list, I didn't know of all these people. thanks for sharing. Here are few you might like Gideon Boley, Drew Smithers, Dan Toppo, Ariel Posen, Joey Landreth, Dylan Palmiero, Sam Berce and Johnny Stachela all these guys are bottle neck slide players. Hope you enjoy some or all of them!
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@@cglasford1 Thanks man, I'll check them out. Quite a few in there I haven't heard of. Ben
@@BenFletcherGuitar Dave Hole is another if you haven't checked. I'm sure you know AJ Ghent if you mention his dad in this video but if not check him too
He's really not unknown, but some people may not be familiar with David Lindley. Check out his performance with his band (at the time) El Rayo X of Mercury Blues on a console steel.
Great video, lots of very inspiring things to check out.
Cheers man! For sure some great players to check out and some more in the comments section too, suggested by other people.
R.I.P my brother Kelly Joe Phelps.
Yeh man, I was sad to hear about that. Great talent.
Awesome video man, thanks so much for this!!!
No worries, thanks man!
kirk Lorange draws from the caged system .. A beautiful combination of finger and slide in a drop D tuning,, Happy Birthday for today Kirk
Wonderful player. Yes, he has interesting approach to playing. Years ago when I first found him, I did think about getting his Plane Talk book. I probably still should, ha!
Here are a few more worth checking out. Peter Haycock, Jack Pearson, Sam Mitchell, Glen Kaiser, Jeremy Spencer, Dave Kelly,Ron Thompson, Ben Andrews, Gwyn Ashton,Tony McPhee,Mojo Stu, Michael Jerome Brown,Rick Payne, John Hammond, My favourite seen live was Rory Gallagher RIP - tore the place apart.
Pandit Debashish Bhattachrya is also a great teacher based in Kolkata, India. He is one heck of a guitarist.
Have you had lessons from him? Stunning player, really like his style.
@@BenFletcherGuitar I have talked to him about getting lessons from him. I am willing to join after my entrance examination is over. www.debashishbhattacharya.com/contacts.php here is his contact details. As far as I know he has more foreigner students than Indians, lol.
Great video, it has inspired me and gained you a subscriber. Can’t believe you don’t have a ton more hits! Do you know what type of instrument Harry Manx is playing in your video? Please make a part two! I will sit through the entire thing! So don’t worry about the length! Again, great job!
Thanks man! Glad you liked it and got something from it.
I saw Eric Sardinas about 20 year ago and it was one of the best shows ever
Well, finally a channel for us slide players! Just been listening to Kelly Joe these days, amazing tone and voice. You should check out Chris Whitley and John Campbell if you haven't already. Also, could you make a guide to getting that aggressive modern slide tone that is all over your videos? Cheers mate
Kelly Joe, is awesome isn't he! I hadn't heard of either of those two guys, so thanks for the heads up. I'm immediately digging what, Chris Whitley is all about. I'm going to do a video soon of a drive pedal that I use for absolutely everything, the Barber Small Fry Burn Unit. It's pretty much my sound in a box. It's pretty similar to the thing Lee Roy Parnell, supposedly uses and he gets a great slide sound. Thanks for the comment mate, Ben.
Seeing that you have so many Canadians on your list, you've likely heard of Ian Thornley from Big Wreck. He doesn't play slide often, once or twice per album, but I dig his playing and the band is phenomenal! Under the Lighthouse is one of my favorite Big Wreck songs with slide.
Yeh, great player. There's some nice videos of his solo stuff on the Suhr channel. I don't think I'd heard of him when I made this video though. I also hadn't noticed the number of Canadian players and didn't realise he was one of them. Thanks for the comment, Ben.
Check out Jack Pearson if you don’t know him. He played the Duane Allman parts for the Allman Brotaqhers for a couple years in late 90’s but now just plays around Nashville and is the guitar player locals tell visitors to see, There’s a great Jack Pearson playlist at Miles of Entertainmaent channel and he’s in their video called “Slide Guitar-Top 20 Best of the Best.”
Yeh he's a great player. Good understanding of jazz vocabulary too. Check out the video of him and Roy Hoffman jamming, pretty mesmerizing stuff. Cheers, Ben.
@@BenFletcherGuitar yes sir, Roy Hoffman is another severely underrated player as well.
I’m new to slide so I will check your list out. I’m trying to re ignite my passion for guitar again and I would like to try my hand at slide. I ordered a Rock slide glass slide today. I was wondering, do you mainly use standard slide tuning? I am inspired by your slide work 🙏
Hi mate, some great players in this list I'm sure it'll inspire you. I play mainly standard, as that way I can just play it in any song when doing a gig. I also play in open G, I find it gives me a more rootsy sound for some things. There are great players that play in standard and open tunings, so both are useful. Thanks for the compliment, Ben.
Saw Greg Leisz twice in the last couple of years with Jackson Browne, once as a duo and once with the full band, Amazing! And I thought I heard some Kirk Lorange in your style (meant as a compliment). Great players!
Wow awesome! I think the 1st time I heard slide guitar, was in Jackson Browne records. Thank you, that is a compliment he's a great player. I haven't copied any lines per se, but I remember when 1st looking for slide players he came up on UA-cam years ago, but has disappeared a bit in recent years. Certainly never comes up in my suggested listings now anyway. I definitely took the concept of fretting behind the slide from him and Sonny (who is a massive influence). Ben
@@BenFletcherGuitar I think it's the feel you and Kirk L have in common. So good! And David Lindley's stuff on Jackson's early records is still a huge influence on me. Perfect notes, perfect tone.
Great video...I went to see Steve Vai at Lynard Skynyrds club in Jax Fl and Eric Sardinas was the opening act...I was completely blown away by this guy...He was like the voodoo witch doctor from some Cajun swamp possessed by the spirit of Hendrix playing a National Resonater guitar with Marshall amps, fuzz face and wah pedals...I've never heard anything like it ever...Inspired me to pick up a slide to try and capture some of that mojo in my guitar playing...Don't really like the indian influence I hear in a lot of slide players, reminds me of those kazoos that my kids play driving me crazy...
Thank you...Thank you for introducing me to new teachers...Thank you, brother...
No worries, man!
Aubrey Ghent / Derek Trucks comment… absolutely can you hear the influence.
I love Mr Trucks but I must confess, never heard of Aubrey til just now.
Must go listen some more methinks!
Definitely check him out, his son AJ Ghent is also a killer player and has very much got his own thing happening. Might be worth a look too. Ben
@@BenFletcherGuitar You're no slouch either Ben ! Love your playing too. I was given an old 10 string lapsteel by a chap I worked with doing tree surgery. He always wanted an electric guitar so he could be the next Hank Marvin but his Dad was into country so that's what he got 😂Subsequently it sat in his barn for 40yrs. It was covered in straw and bird shit but with a good few hours spent, it's cleaned up lovely and the original P90 style pup still sounds great. The foot pedals and the knee pedal all works too.
@@SONGSTICKS Thanks man, appreciated! Haha, what kind of music do you want to learn to play son, Country or Western?! Lap steel has always looked interesting to me, but I'm not sure my IQ is high enough to work all the levers! I watched a video about it once and my eyes started glazing over like I was back in a senior school maths class...Love the sound of them though.
Perhaps you should know about Justin Johnson. Just happens to be the 2014 Slidestock International Slide guitar champion
Actually i just realized that i met Jerry Douglas un San Clemente California back in 2008 and he was friend of My roonmate and and i didnt know who he was but the cool thing is that he played one song using the Slide which it was My first time watching somebody that plays the guitar using the Slide and i was so impressed that i told him that if he could teach me to play that song! He didnt gave me an answer and after that night in My roonmate's house i never see him again until i Saw this video. Also i m pretty impressed how Jimmy Page plays a few songs using the Slide! Like My favorite is "In My time of dying"! Really awesome!
That's cool, man! He's an exceptional player for sure. You know I've never seen Jimmy using a slide, I'll have to look that up. I had no idea that was a thing, should be interesting!
Error #1:
Brother Dege - Too Old To Die Young / Girl Who Wept Stones
Error #2:
Erja Lyytinen - Broadcast ( Studio ) / King of the Slide Guitar / The Sky Is Crying album.
Error #3:
Roy Rogers - Walkin' Blues
These three are best than the most of the video's lists.
Eric Sardinas with I Cant Be Satisfied / 8 Goin South and such is the best one with no doubt. Good catch there.
Hi there, thanks for the comment. There's no 'error' as the title of my video says great players, not greatest. For instance I mention Sylvester Weaver, not because he's the best, but because he was the first to be recorded. So not an error so much as an omission. I appreciate English is not your first language though, I couldn't begin to hold a conversation in any other language, so fair play to you. Roy Rodgers is excellent, I've seen him before, very good at getting a vintage type sound. Ben.
I like Joanna Connor. Steve Balkan and Damon Fowler. Awesome list though KJP...been listening to him since his Roll Away the Stone...
Justin Johnson is a good youtube phenom too
Nice selection of great slidemen there Ben for sure. Just love KJP and the late Chris Whitley especially. Check out Joey Landreth another wonderful Canadian player, no relation to the marvellous Sonny Landreth of course.
Thanks for the comment, Stuart. This video originally had more names in it and I did mention both Sonny and Joey Landreth in it, but the video was getting way too long, so I edited out half of the players! I didn't think anybody would sit through such a long list! You're right, both great players of course. Sonny Landreth was the 1st person I saw doing the fretting behind the slide thing, which blew my mind. It's where I believe Joey took inspiration and his band mate, Ariel Posen, who's also a good slide player. I'd never heard of Chris Whitley, until Wew mentioned him in the comments below.
Not many people know about Earl Hooker anymore, even less David Hole - who plays slide guitar in a uniquely different way! There must be something in the water down under, because Australian guitar players seem to have something extra? There are too many to name, I understand, but everybody should know about those two imho. Cheers!!
Earl Hooker was great! I've only fairly recently been turned on to him. Out of the earlier electric bluesmen, I really like how succinct his style is. Dave Hole is awesome too, how many people play with it on their 1st finger?! Very cool suggestions, cheers mate.
Check out - Kevin Brown, Mojave Dust.
Lovely player and not well known, nice suggestion. Oddly I know about this guy, because he's a friend of a friend, although we've never met. The guy I play with on a regular basis was actually asked to play drums on Kevin's album. Small world!
Check out John Felty formerly with Jupiter Coyote
Cool, that's not a name I've heard before, I'll check him out. Thanks, man.
I’m adding Ben Fletcher to the list !! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Haha! Thanks, man!
Impressive
Thanks! Some great players in this list, so much to learn!
I used to play a lot of the same venues as Eric Sardines back in Huntington Beach California. I wasn't impressed by him. He is mostly a lot of theatrics. A great player like Derrick is Mike Gannon an amazing slide player. Check him out.
who is the player on the beginning audio clip
The opening playing is me. I'm not part of the list though, haha!
Dave Hole? Australian slide player. Plays over the neck.
Yeh, cool player. He used to come up quite a bit in the early days of UA-cam, but I've not seen much of him in recent years. I wonder if he still tours Europe? There was a great clip of him playing a dark, maybe walnut 335 years ago at some outside concert in Australia. I remember enjoying that one a lot. Thanks for the comment, Ben.
I found the name of the instrument. It’s a Mohan Veena if anyone else is interested.
Thanks for posting this, I looked them up. A total string tension of 500lbs! You'd need one strong neck for that.
Jerry Douglas!! All day!
Absolutely, he's a fantastic player.
@@BenFletcherGuitar watch Jerry and Tommy Emmanuel do Hendrix on Tommy’s collaboration record. Unfreaking believable!!!
Cool
Loved your playing at the start of the vid - crank 'er up in the mix! PLEASE check out KEVIN BREIT!! A true genius not just slide, but mandolin, banjo, composer, singer/songwriter, aclaimed studio musician (Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson...). Search for "Folk Alarm Skedaddle Kevin Breit..." AND "Congregation of 2 -The Sisters Euclid -@ the REX..." Be patient - he builds to the climaxes.
Thanks, man and thanks for the suggestion! I've never heard that name, so I'll check him out. Ben.
Check out a San Diego (yes San Diego, CA) legend...Robin Henkel.
ua-cam.com/video/Wg5EMUHZZOQ/v-deo.html
Awesome Possum!
Jerry Douglas/Roy Rogers
Great players! Jerry Douglas is something else!
Todos increíbles, solo faltaría Chris Rea, un gran Slide Guitar, ❤❤❤❤❤
I cannot believe you didn’t include Bob Brozman?
I only went for less well known guys, plus I didn't want the inevitable backlash! Good player though.
Rod Price!
Thanks for the suggestion, that's not a name I've come across.
Rod was with Foghat! Check him out playing the song " It hurts me too"!
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