top 100 blues guitarists

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Duke Robillard Dukes are 2 down the chart from kings and there've been a good number of them (Duke Ellington, Duke Pearson). In Roomful of Blues and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and his solo efforts have blended just about every type of American music--a roots musician to the core.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr9Ti9_xArw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jyQEmPjEw << w /Herb Ellis--a lovely disc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-zsO1vAN-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VhL26DWDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYdQfm-UUc

BONUS: A lesson from Da Man: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2Aeiwqqf0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2Aeiwqqf0

Lonnie Johnson[SIZE=2] "...hugely influential and utterly original..." I'll leave the rest of the AMG bio to you: [/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=2]http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lonnie-jo.../biography[/SIZE]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POnWb_fJc4I << recorded by both Elvis Presley AND Jerry Lee Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRg3XMfU94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSX-oidnLQE << not a pic of Ms. Spivey--it's Barbara Stanwyck as a Ziegfield Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8fyb9vpIc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iPA7oNRr5o