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- The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues. Guitarist: Duane Allman. A generation of blues-influenced rockers toyed with slide guitar for several years, slowly bringing it into mainstream music (Check out Jeff Beck's performance on Evil Hearted You by the Yardbirds), but no one dragged it into the modern era quite like Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band.
- Sonny Landreth - Überesso. Guitarist: Sonny Landreth. Respected Louisiana-based slide player Sonny Landreth started appearing on music fans' radar in earnest after the release of the 2007 Crossroads Blues Festival DVD.
- Steve Miller Band - The Joker. Guitarist: Steve Miller. Although not primarily known as a slide player, Steve Miller put the slide to fun and creative use on his 1973 hit single, The Joker, playing a hummable, tasteful slide solo for the masses (and imitating a whistle a few times in the process).
- George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) Guitarist: George Harrison. You'll read it in other roundups of great slide guitar songs - comments like, "Although he wasn't a virtuoso like these other players..."
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Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that reflect characteristics of the human singing voice.
Slide guitar is such a key part of blues, and it opens up a whole range of tonal possibilities that the guitar does not normally offer. Using a slide allows you to play all of the micro tones between frets. It also allows you to slide up to and down from the target notes you want to play. This gives slide guitar a vocal quality.
