Bluesdjben's 100 Best Guitarists of All Time

Walacama, thanks for the nice comment! I always thought the Rolling Stone list was cool but that they gave too much weight to popularity and reputation, so it was fun to make my own list relying on my own ears.

Thanks. I do acknowledge that metal guitarists are the group that was probably the most hurt by my personal taste. Since I'm a blues fan, I put more weight into feeling, expression, and soul whereas if I liked metal more I would have given more weight to the technical brilliance of guys like Hammett & Hetfield, Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, Jason Becker, and more.

Actually, I've wondered about the Chile/Child discrepancy for a while, but I've never bothered to look it up. It turns out Hendrix used both spellings in the notes he sent to his record label (whether he meant to or not), so the US release of Electric Ladyland featured the titles "Voodoo Chile" for the 15-minute song on side 1 and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" for the more famous song on side 4. However, the UK release spelled both songs with "Chile." Because I'm from the US, I've usually seen the spelling "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," and that title seems to be used more frequently in official Hendrix media. If this was a song titles quiz I would definitely accept both spellings as type-ins.

He is really good. Didn't quite make my list, but he was an honorable mention in my blog post.

Thanks. Joe Pass and Pat Metheny were honorable mentions on my blog post too, as well as Lenny Breau. I need to check out Tal Farlow. I feel like a lot of the things that great jazz guitarists do are kind of hard for me to fully appreciate as a non-musician, so it was kind of hard for me to know exactly how to compare them.