3° "Crossroads"
Cream (1968)
Eric Clapton once described Cream's music as "blues ancient and modern." This track is what he meant. He was not yet 23 when he played this high-velocity version of the Robert Johnson song at San Francisco's Winterland on March 10th, 1968. Everything in Clapton's solos is grounded in the blues vocabulary but pointed to the future. "When Clapton soloed, he wrote wonderful symphonies from classic blues licks in that fantastic tone," Little Steven Van Zandt told Rolling Stone in 2004. "You could sing his solos like songs in themselves."
5 "Brown Sugar"
Os Rolling Stones (1971)
Number Five: The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar"
"Satisfação" pode ser o Rolling Stones' riff mais reconhecível, mas esta bateu Sticky Fingers - baseado em uma guitarra gutbucket parte idealizados por Mick Jagger - é a banda da guitarra pinnacle rude. Keith Richards "arma secreta: Ele está tocando um violão que está faltando a sua menor corda.