Elmore James

Elmore James' wailing slide guitar shadows the playing of virtually every important British blues guitarist from the 1960s onward and informs the styles of great American blues guitarists such as Duane Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Michael Bloomfield. Moreover, in the tracks James cut between 1951 and 1956, he provided the link between Robert Johnson's acoustic howl and Chuck Berry's electrified...