Elmore James

The King of the Slide Guitar, Elmore James transformed Robert Johnson's Dust My Broom into the most covered blues song of all time when he recorded it in 1951. His electrified, buzzing slide guitar tone and intense delivery on Shake Your Moneymaker and The Sky Is Crying influenced Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix before his early death at age 45 in 1963.