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Who’s the best guitarist ever?

Eric Clapton? Jimi Hendrix? Mark Knopfler? Or somebody else?
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Ali Farka Touré, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Andrés Segovia.
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@LeopoldBloom now we ate getting down to the nitty gritty. Johnson used to hide his hands back in the day, whenever he played in public, so nobody could rip off his shit. Lol I think the cats long out of the bag though.
@SW-User Supposedly, when Keith Richards first heard a recording of Johnson, his reaction was "hey, he's pretty good. Who's the other guy playing with him?"

Ali Farka Touré also could sound like two people playing. He was also a politician, he served as mayor of Niafunké in northern Mali. I remember thinking, when al Qaeda invaded that area a few years ago, they wouldn't have tried that shit if Ali was still alive.