Editing Slide guitar (section)

=== Elmore James ===
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Possibly the most influential electric blues slide guitarist of his era was [[Elmore James]], who gained prominence with his 1951 song "[[Dust My Broom#Elmore James renditions|Dust My Broom]]", a remake of Robert Johnson's 1936 song, "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom".{{sfn|Oliver|1988|p=109}} It features James playing a series of triplets throughout the song which ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine called "one immortal lick" and is heard in many blues songs to this day.<ref name="rolling-stone-mag">{{cite web|title=100 Greatest Guitarists – #30. Elmore James|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/elmore-james-20111122|website=[[rollingstone.com]]|access-date=October 11, 2017|date=December 18, 2005}}</ref> Although Johnson had used the figure on several songs,{{sfn|Wald|2004|p=139}} James' overdriven electric sound made it "more insistent, firing out a machine-gun triplet beat that would become a defining sound of the early rockers", writes historian [[Ted Gioia]].{{sfn|Gioia|2008|p=313}}  Unlike Nighthawk and Hooker, James used a full-chord glissando effect with an [[open E tuning]] and a bottleneck.{{sfn|Danchin|2001|p=168}}{{sfn|Dicaire|1999|pp=99–103}}  Other popular songs by James, such as "[[It Hurts Me Too]]" (first recorded by Tampa Red), "[[The Sky Is Crying (song)|The Sky Is Crying]]", "[[Shake Your Moneymaker (song)|Shake Your Moneymaker]]", feature his slide playing.