I strongly consider Jeff Beck a blues guitarist and, what is more, one of the Top 3 white blues guitarists (along with Clapton and SRV).
On the other hand, I think that T-Bone Walker is very underrated. How can everybody remember Robert Johnson and forget T-Bone. In my opinion they are even. Walker had, I believe, the major influence on the King himself - BB King. Jimi Hendrix, when was a little boy watched the things that T-Bone did with his guitar and that had a big influence on Hendrix, too. So, influentially, they are almost even, while as pure guitar skills, I think T-Bone surpasses Johnson a lot. For me, T-Bone is one of the Top 3 blues guitarists of all time for sure. Johnson enters the Top 5, though.
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