SLIDE TRACKED

Not content with the status quo, industrious young guitar players have endeavored over the decades to make things more difficult for themselves. Some have tried playing the guitar behind their back, over their head, with their teeth, with their friends’ teeth, etc. And then there was the inventive guitarist who, many decades ago, decided to slip a bottle over his finger and slide it along his guitar’s strings to produce a magical sound. (He probably first emptied the bottle himself, if you know what I mean). While playing the guitar with your teeth is, was and always shall be a novelty, slide guitar — and slide guitarists — is