This is also true
(And then do you go for a slide player or a regular fingerstyle player?)
It just seems a little ironic to rank blues guitarists on their technical ability, for a genre which is still very musical but derives so much from the raw passion in the playing - it's the only genre I can think of where two guitarists could play a one-note solo and one somehow play it better than the other because he was "feeling it" better.

EDIT: Although, to contradict all that, Ritchie Blackmore's well-thought-out playing on some of Deep Purple's bluesier numbers is also excellent, so who knows?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:28, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I prefer fingerstyle on the whole
not to say that I dislike slide, but I don't dig it quite so much.

I get where you are coming from. Because I mostly come from playing rock and metal, and these days play a lot of blues based stuff it's tricky to seperate the two. It's a different approach. I'm only really now getting to the point where I'm good enough (and confident enough) that what I'm feeling comes through nicely, without sounding shite or like I'm rubbish.

One of my very favourite guitarists is Jerry Reed (of Eastbound and Down fame). Check out a video on youtube of him and Chet Atkins playing a tune called Jerry's Breakdown. Fucking marvellous. Then watch the video of two guys playing it on one guitar.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

Blackmore is one of those who is a law unto himself
see also: Jimi, Dave Gilmour
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:35, Reply)

Or to bring it back to the blues theme,
see also Buddy Guy.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:55, Reply)