When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Fender Strat is ideal for SRV-style Texas blues. A Gibson ES-335 will give you BB King or ...

The first slide guitar recording (and first instrumental blues recording) was made by Sylvester Weaver for Okeh Records (No. 8109) in 1923, the A-side being "Guitar Blues" and the B- side "Guitar Rag.

In American music, slide guitar (also known as bottleneck guitar) is a technique employed primarily by blues guitarists. It involves the use of a smooth cylinder that can fit over a player's finger, ...