Stefan Grossman: bottleneck guitar (10)

Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar.

With the guitar in the normal position, using a slide called a bottleneck on one of the fingers of the left hand; this is known as bottleneck guitar.

At an early Doors rehearsal Morrison heard Krieger playing bottleneck guitar and initially wanted the technique featured on every song on the first album.

Ry Cooder - bottleneck guitar on "Rainy Day Crossroad Blues"

Ry Cooder - bottleneck guitar on "Back on My Feet Again"

He plays guitar, electric slide guitar and bottleneck guitar.

People are playing bottleneck guitar who are pretty young," he noted, "and maybe they don't know it's a blues concept.

A sense of fair play binds modern country melodies with rugged Southern gospel and the bottleneck guitar of rural blues.

While the others played raging bottleneck guitar and favoured rough, percussive voices, Hooker was onto another tip.