Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

check out Steve Kimock playing "End of The World Blues" with Zero...lots of high quality digital tapes around of this band. Kimock soars.

Clapton was a bore after "Derek and the Dominos". I've seen him live several times; only time he was any good was when he was playing with a four piece band (inc him) and the drummer was Phil Collins. Eric had to really work on that tour; no backup guitar players to fill in.

Ever wonder why there was no Cream reunion? Probably because Jack Bruce was the creative force in that band. Clapton and his handlers wanted to ensure that that ugly little truth from the past stayed in history.

He wrote almost all the tunes and sang them. Clapton contributed a few tunes and that was it. His most famous was a collaboration with George Harrison called "Badge". Clapton was/is an excellent rock and roll/blues guitar player and mediocre vocalist and songwriter (Wonderful tonight....puh..lease!). His best work as a solo artist was the dual album "Layla and Other Love Songs". Duane Allman was a guest on that album.

Catch John Renbourn doing his version of Robert Johnson and you will be blown away. The man is a master guitar player and can play blues, renaissance, medieval, ragtime, jazz....whatever. I just saw him in Berkeley on his recent tour last week. He'll be at Columbia University for five nights, I think.

He has a couple of live albums with Stefan Grossman that are spectacular and full of blues (cocaine blues, methinks is on one and great) and ragtime.