If anyone can hold the title of string bending champion it’s Mr. Albert King.
Standing in at a massive 6 ft 4″, The Velvet Bulldozer as he’s known is a blues master and one of my favorite electric blues-men.
Unlike the other King’s, Albert wasn’t a major figure in blues until around the mid-60′s despite his debut release being as early as 1953. Strangely, it made no impact.
Since the debut, Albert King’s status as a guitar player has grown massively, find out more in the Blues Legacy.