Gary Moore

Gary has always been one of my favorite guitar players, even before he focused his recording efforts almost exclusively on blues. I only acquired an even bigger admiration for him as a blues guitarist. I think he's one of the most underrated and under appreciated guitarist by the American music critics and audience as evidenced by the fact that he was criminally omitted from the RS list of 100 greatest guitarist of all time (even though admittedly being on it is perhaps as irrelevant).

I was incredibly sad when I heard in 2011 that he died of a heart attack at 58. I recently learned he did a tribute to Jimmi Hendrix in 2007 and the performance was also released on vinyl. I checked most of the songs on youtube, and I'm blown away by Gary's playing Jimmi's songs. What a tremendous loss to us all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjUZ0amX4EI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHNpBQQCoE