Wamble stepped out on his own with 2003’s Country Libations, on which he views jazz though a lens of gospel and blues—an approach that has characterized his work in general. His self-designed “Trinity of Guitars” now includes the chaturangui, a 23-string combination sitar/sarod/violin/rudra veena; the gandharvi, a 12-string guitar/veena/santoor/sarangi; and the anandi, a slide ukulele. As a teenager in Memphis, Tennessee, in the mid-to-late 1990s, Doug Wamble was surrounded by old-timey music. With my right hand, I started to develop a kind of slap that would indicate the beat while I was picking, and I could see my street audience getting into it more.”, In the 1980s, Manx travelled frequently between India and Japan, and one day while busking in the latter country, he followed some interesting sounds into a small record shop and learned that he was hearing Indian classical music. Manx, now his mid-60s, says, “I spent a lot of time playing other people’s songs and making a decent living. Beginning with guitarists in the American South and Hawaii in early 20th century, slide guitar styles have developed in a variety of musical settings, including blues, country, and rock. “I was playing around in the orchard of our village home one afternoon when my mom gave me a very old Hawaiian [lap style] six-string guitar,” Bhattacharya, a major proponent of Hindustani slide guitar, remembers. Bhattacharya, now in his mid-50s, first heard Western slide guitar on All India Radio (on which he also debuted at age four) as a small child in the late 1960s. From the July/August 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER. “I love the unintended noises and transients that accompany slide playing, as well as the way that the style allows me to vary my timing as I move from one position to another,” she says. It’s not possible to know the exact specifics, but at some point near the beginning of the 20th century, a random musician in the Mississippi Delta must have rubbed a guitar’s strings with a knife, glass bottle, or other hard object, and in doing so discovered that the instrument could be made to produce an eerily vocal-like sound. Though Manx admits he never became a great Indian classical musician, he did find a way to incorporate the music’s feel and depth into everything he does today—including his latest album, Hell Bound for Heaven (Stony Plain), with the Canadian multi-instrumentalist Steve Marriner. Meanwhile, the acoustic players of the world are the sensitive souls, playing delicately and carefully in their unamplified corners of music history. And while we're at The Allman Brothers band, the top spot goes to Duane Allman. It can be a raunchy blues solo, or a gentle and soulful slide accompaniment, or even a psychedelically infused voyage into the unexplored. She makes her own slides from the necks of wine bottles, and she favors assorted D’Addario strings. “In those days [the late 1960s and early ’70s], there weren’t really any teaching materials available, so I had to work it out by ear,” Manx says. I love that freedom.”. “God helped me by adding the idea in my brain to practice more staccatos and develop faster and finer wrist [control], to build a new technology of slide guitar playing,” Bhattacharya explains. [1] Beginning with guitarists in the American South and Hawaii in early 20th century,[2] slide guitar styles have developed in a variety of musical settings, including blues, country, and rock. Manx’s main instrument is a Taylor 710, set up for lap-style play in a D-based tuning—either D A D F# A D (D major), D A D F A D (D minor), or D A D F# A C# (D major seventh). Dawson’s go-to acoustic for live performance is an early 1990s Larrivée JV-05, a cutaway jumbo outfitted with a Sunrise pickup. “I was aware of [adventurous electric slide guitarist] David Tronzo from reading guitar magazines, but it was years before I ever got to hear him,” Wamble says. Hammond also plays a baritone lap resonator and a 12-string lap resonator, both by Turkey Tone (luthier Chris Harvey), as well as a Republic resonator guitar for bottleneck slide. He often plugs into a Fender Deluxe and uses Strymon Flint, Catalinbread Belle Epoch, JHS SuperBolt, and Dingtotone HZD Boost effects pedals. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHerzhaft1996 (, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_slide_guitarists&oldid=978225317, Articles to be expanded from October 2019, Articles needing additional references from October 2019, All articles needing additional references, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. I arrived at his doorstep late in the evening and pretty much laid my life at his feet. Though her first loves were country and folk, she began on classical guitar and later studied with guitarist Nina Gerber, who taught her to improvise—an aspect that has remained a big part of her music. “My blues is a little Indian, and my Indian is a little bluesy,” he says. D'Addario Planet Waves Glass Slide. Manx uses acrylic nails on his picking hand, a Dunlop Lap Dawg tonebar, and assorted Elixir strings. Early on in his musical development, Bhattacharya realized that he needed specialized gear to realize his visions, and in 1978, when he was 15, he made his own instrument. Manx uses acrylic nails on his picking hand, a Dunlop Lap Dawg tonebar, and assorted Elixir strings. He also has a National Style 0; a Gold Tone model Banjitar six-string banjo (tuned to open C); and a four-string cigar box instrument (tuned F F C F), made by the luthier Grant Wickland. I agree that a good solid toped acoustic can have great slide tone, but so can an el-cheapo guitar. He found the music a “sloppy act,” as he remembers it—at least relative to the pristine Indian classical music that was in his DNA—so he worked out a way to reconcile these seemingly disparate worlds. He also has a National Style 0; a Gold Tone model Banjitar six-string banjo (tuned to open C); and a four-string cigar box instrument (tuned F F C F), made by the luthier Grant Wickland. My first few attempts were very frustrating, but after practicing slide for three hours every day, I quickly got better. Dunlop 285 Preachin’ Pipe (My Top Pick) Shubb AX Axyx Reversable Slide (Best High-End) Dunlop 246 Moonshine Ceramic Guitar Slide (Best Budget) Fender FCSS1 Steel Slide. After college, Dawson worked with various bands but grew weary of playing in loud bars, where the clientele was less than attentive, so he formed an acoustic duo, Zubot & Dawson, with fiddler Jesse Zubot. “Western influences haven’t confused me, but rather have empowered me,” Bhattacharya says. The sound of an open-tuned instrument played with a slide is inextricably associated with these styles and their offshoots, and American popular music in general. “That allows me to play all the slide stuff I want,” he explains, “while also getting through entire songs without playing slide.”, Whether playing with the slide or without, Dawson draws from a deep well of influences—the blues and rock canon in general, guitar greats like Doc Watson and Chet Atkins, eclectic stylists like Ry Cooder and David Lindley, and much more, as can be heard on his latest album, Lucky Hand (Black Hen Music).