Some of the below only play slide on occasion, but are great when they do...

Elmore James
Sonny Landreth
George Harrison
Rory Gallagher
David Gilmour
Mick Taylor

Although I find it hard to understand not being interested in Jazz and Indian when you list Duane, Dickey and Derek as the ones you are already familiar with as their playing is heavily influenced

Jack Pearson
Ry Cooder
Sonny Landreth

Some of the below only play slide on occasion, but are great when they do...

Elmore James
Sonny Landreth
George Harrison
Rory Gallagher
David Gilmour
Mick Taylor

Although I find it hard to understand not being interested in Jazz and Indian when you list Duane, Dickey and Derek as the ones you are already familiar with as their playing is heavily influenced

Thanks, WarEagleRK - could you recommend a good song or two by some/all of those artists where they play slide?

As to not being interested in Jazz/Indian...I understand that those guys were influenced by it...but there is a difference in being influenced by it and being fully immersed in it. I have no interest in listening to straight jazz or Indian music. And while I love Derek Trucks, I much prefer to hear him jamming on some ABB/blues tune rather than SahibTeri Bandi/Maki Madni.

Johnny Winter is great too. Sloppy at times perhaps, but great player.

Billy Gibbons too.

Thanks, Zambi - any specific song/album recommendations?

Foghat Live is a nice representation of Rod (The Bottle) Price's slide work. The disc is in my Top 10 of favorite live albums. Himself and Lonesome Dave clicked in the '70's.

Muddy Waters had a style and feel, often replicated, but never duplicated.

Changed the name of the thread since I was looking more for specific songs/albums rather than names of musicians... 😉

But thanks to everyone who has responded so far.

Here are some...

Mick Taylor "All Down The Line"

Sonny Landreth "Congo Square" with a little help from someone we know.

George Harrison "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)"

David Gilmour "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

Almost anything by Elmore James...

Lowell George

Curtis lowe-skynyrd(ed king)
tears in my eyes-Uriah heep(mick box)
straight from the heart-little feat(Lowell George)

I'll offer a few good rock players who are nowhere near as adventurous as Derek or Duane but I would say are more like George Harrison, in terms of using slide to great melodic effect.

Joe Walsh is a master of tone and taste, and he plays some nice slide. Check it out on "In the City" or "Rocky Mountain Way."

David Lindley played petal steel in Jackson Browne's band. I know that is not slide per se, but it has much of the same quality. His soloing in the song "Running on Empty" is absolutely perfect. He has a cool solo career also.

Jimmy Page does some cool slide playing on "When The Levee Breaks," "In My Time of Dying," and "What is and What Should Never Be."

Here are a few less well known:

Ritchie Blackmore has a really nice touch on slide guitar. This is the studio version of a song called "Maybe Next Time." The video doesn't show the band playing; it's just nice nature pictures; but what lovely slide!!! Check it out:

This is another slow slide instrumental from Ritchie Blackmore. It starts off very soft; don't think your stereo is broken!! This one is called "Weiss Heim":

To get back to the blues, here are the Rolling Stones in 1972 with Mick Taylor playing slide on their cover of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain." What a great example of how to build a song up bit by bit:

This next one is one of my favorite Mick Taylor things. It is a demo with Bob Dylan of the song "Blind Willie McTell." It is a superb one-take, but Dylan coughed during it. You will need to turn the volume up because it is low, but Mick plays some really haunting slide on it.

Here is a nice one from Mick Taylor's 1979 solo album; the song is called "Alabama." The slide comes in about halfway through the song.

FInally, this is a great song by Wilco putting music to some unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics, called "Airline to Heaven." This has Nels Cline on lap steel, which is not exactly slide but pretty darned close. Awesome performance:

Brian Jones on "No Expectations"

In no particular order:

Roy Rogers "Walkin' Blues"

Kirk Lorange "Little Wing"

David Lindley & El Rayo X "Mercury Blues"

David Lindley wit Jackson Browne "Red neck Friend"

Bonnie Raitt "Kokomo"

Lowell George "German TV interview"

John Hiatt and the Goners (Sonny Landreth) "Memphis in the meantime"

3 that immediately come to mind:
Detox Mansion- Warren Zevon
Sway - Rolling Stones
Slow Turning - John Hiatt (Sonny Landreth tears up entire album)

Off the top of my head

Little Feat - Rock n Roll Doctor
Roll Um Easy
Bonnie Raitt (Lowell George on slide ) - Can't find my way home

Black Crowes with Luther - Torn and Frayed

Always enjoyed Leslie West's slide playing -- from the stinging nasty tone on the live version of Crossroader, to the real nice acoustic slide dobro playing on WB&L's While You Sleep

Some really great suggestions...There is little jewel that came out last year(I think) called "Slide Guitar Summit" by Arlen Roth.

It features some truly great slide players, (Jack Pearson, Cindy Cashdollar, Johnny Winter, David Lindley, Lee Roy Parnell, Jimmy Vivino, Gregg Martin, Rick Vito, and of course Arlen Roth)

They pretty much use a house band so there is some continuity, but, oh my, there's some real ear candy here. If you are looking for a slide guitar fix without including the Allman Brothers this is it!

This primer should get you on the path of some really great artist that will open your horizons.

Hope you enjoy!

Hey redfish, I consider myself a big ABB and Derek fan, but I never really investigated Jack Pearson. I was lucky enough to see him live with Butch a few months back and he blew me away. He is certainly a slide guitar player to check out. I myself have not done my homework yet; I'm still riding that "Instant Live" disc from the Les Brers show I saw.

Others here could probably tell you what Jack Pearson recordings you need to hear.

Two go-to albums that feature lots of Jack Pearson slide:

Gregg Allman - Searchin for Simplicity (that's his work on the re-done / new arrangement of Whipping Post plus lots more)

Gregg Allman All My Friends concert CD - Jack is all over it. He is downright majestic on These Days.

David Bowie - Heros - version played at the 911 Benefit for New York. Is the guitarist playing slide?

I truly enjoyed some of the posts, thank you.

One of my favorites is Jack Pearson - w/TTB doing Anyday Anyway

I have absolutely loved Little Steven's slide guitar on the Hammersmith Odeon live version of "E Street Shuffle." It's so good and his tone is so nice that it makes you wonder why he never made it more of a prominent part of his playing:

Luther Dickinson on slide guesting + Randall Bramblett with Widespread Panic just shortly after Houser's passing - Stop Breaking Down:

Great way to spend 20 minutes - even if you're not a big Panic fan.

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So hard to believe that he did not use it more but Stevie Ray Vaughan had a high-powered slide guitar cut on his Soul to Soul CD. Check out "Slip Slidin' Slim" (even if it is only 1:42 in length).