1.   Among the performers were Eric Clapton, left, with the blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy.

2.   Blues guitarists know the name.

3.   Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died five years ago in a helicopter crash on the way to a concert.

4.   Blues guitarist Spencer Bohren agrees.

5.   He was known as a master blues guitarist, songwriter and passionate performer.

6.   Keith Richards is a great blues guitarist.

7.   One big problem is that the AFC produces great quarterbacks like Lithuania produces great blues guitarists.

8.   Other winners this year include a Delta blues guitarist, an Irish step dancer and a Navajo basket weaver.

9.   R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has discontinued a print advertisement featuring a blues guitarist, after Bo Diddley complained that the photograph resembled him and threatened to sue.

10.   Robin Syler has always been a different sort of blues guitarist.