Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

Rolling Stone says it's Jimi Hendrix, so I guess that settles it...lol!

Between the two, I'll take Peter Green. Both Clapton and Green are blessed with marvelous melodic gifts and both are great when on their game, but....
Both guys run hot and cold, both had big-time drug problems.

Check out Fleetwood Mac's "Man of The World". A friend of mine who has toured profesionally playing rhythm guitar for The Cult for 2 decades put it nicely:

If that playing doesn't reduce you to tears, you have no heart.

Marty

If clapton plays the blues, what the heck does B.B. King play? Or herbert sumlin, buddy guy , etc........

Rok,

Have you seen Clapton in concert over the last decade or so? He basically plays ONLY the blues: straight up, and - more often than not - acoustic. You may (or may not) dig his playing, but the music is every bit as much the blues as anything BB has played. In fact, it's often exactly the same songs. And BB's influence is very much evident in EC's style.

Marty

BTW Fans have been bitching about these shows since "From The Cradle". Personally - when he's having a good night - I like them just about as much as I liked the rock 'n' roll shows that he used to do.

Herbert Sumlin?